Cilantro: herb or health-booster?
As an herb, cilantro tends to polarize eaters. Foodies everywhere either flock to its delicious, flavourful taste, or are disgusted by its “soapy” fragrance....
Boost Your Cardiac Nutrients
Adding plenty of fish to your diet can have a major impact on keeping good cardiac health in a number of different ways. Besides...
Stress Guide: Highlight Flora 4-Stress
Flora’s 4-Stress helps you manage stress in a healthy way.
It contains a blend of four adaptogenic herbs—American ginseng, rhodiola, ashwagandha, and schisandra berry extract—...
3 reasons to add curcumin to your medicine cabinet
Found in turmeric (the main spice used in curries), curcumin is the latest natural craze to hit the market. However, with all the hype...
Give your Green Tea a Citrus Boost
Do you love green tea? Studies have shown that adding citrus juice to your green tea boosts antioxidants and other nutrients to make an...
Genetically modified salmon approved for sale in Canada
Health Canada has approved AquAdvantage Salmon for sale as food in Canada.
“The AquAdvantage Salmon is a GM salmon developed by AquaBounty Technologies Inc. to...
Eye for a Banana
Important pigments for eye health, carotenoids, are found at various levels in different banana varieties. Researchers are now trying to understand how exactly bananas...
Veggielicious
The 5th annual Veggielicious is making waves with some seriously delicious participants.
From May 6-22, over 40 restaurants, cafés, and bakeries will feature a prix-fixe...
Food Labels and Obesity
By Lisa Cantkier, Holistic Nutritionist
Food labels: why are they so hard to understand? Maybe it’s not about what they say, but rather, what they...
The Dirty Dozen and the Clean Fifteen
By Lisa Cantkier, Holistic Nutritionist
Why eat organic?
It’s true that organic food is often more costly, however, I believe it’s worth every penny. It’s not...