by Dr. Melissa Carr | Mar 29, 2020 | Exercise, Food, Happiness, Health Tips, Healthy Habits
CONTEST! Staying on top of healthy habits like exercising, eating nutritious food, limiting junk food, maintaining social connections, curbing tv and other screen time, and practicing gratitude can be tough at the best of times. But in these days of COVID-19...
by Dr. Melissa Carr | Mar 19, 2020 | acupressure, Allergies, Food, Health Tips, Herbs and Supplements, Video
I’ve never done a video blog before, so here’s my first one. With the COVID-19 pandemic affecting people worldwide right now, life is upside-down for many of us. As we try to protect our vulnerable citizens and our medical facilities and system from...
by Dr. Melissa Carr | Jan 28, 2020 | Exercise, Food, Health Tips, Healthy Habits, holistic health, Sleep
When I do an Instagram search of #selfcare, it shows up (as of this very moment) as 22,953,025 posts. Most of those are beauty posts (so many products) and cheesy memes that flash across your screen but change little. Self care is so much more than this. Don’t...
by Dr. Melissa Carr | Jun 2, 2018 | Food, Recipe
I normally have oatmeal for breakfast and I prefer this non-ice cream non-dairy ice cream as a snack, but you can have it for breakfast, if you like. In fact, the reason why I thought about this is because one of my patients told me that she makes something along this...
by Dr. Melissa Carr | Mar 18, 2018 | Food, Recipe
In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), we recommend following seasonal cues when selecting foods to eat. We focus on local, seasonally available foods and think about the temperature outside (as well as how hot or cold we feel) when we choose ingredients and recipes....
by Dr. Melissa Carr | Feb 28, 2018 | Food
Every year I attend the CHFA (Canadian Health Food Association) Health Show in Vancouver. It’s for natural health food and supplement retailers, wholesalers, and practitioners to attend, and I usually find at least a few interesting items that are new to me....
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