Holistic Nutrition

Holistic nutrition treats the whole individual, emphasizing your environment, emotions, diet, as well as physical symptoms.  By analyzing your health status utilizing a lifestyle and nutritional assessment questionnaire, a nutritionist can help you improve areas of deficiency or imbalance by assisting you to make positive diet, supplement and lifestyle adjustments.  A holistic nutritionist will customize a step-by-step nutritional program to meet your individual health needs. Diabetes, Blood sugar imbalances PMS, Menopause, Hormone imbalances Acne, Eczema, Rash, Psoriasis Weight loss, Weight gain Stress, Anxiety, Depression Chronic colds/flu, Asthma High blood pressure, High cholesterol Thyroid and Adrenal glandular issues Pre- and Post surgery Detoxification, Allergies, Arthritis ADD/ADHD Digestive disorders, IBS, Constipation MAINTAINING HEALTH All these conditions and many more can benefit from nutritional coaching.  Take the first step toward positive ch...

"For each new morning with its light, For rest and shelter of the night, For health and food, for love and friends, For everything Thy goodness sends." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Thanksgiving weekend reminded us to count our blessings.  Research shows that an attitude of gratitude improves our health ~ gratitude initiates a positive healing effect in our mind and body.  It shifts our focus from negative thoughts and emotions that cause disease to an attitude that accelerates physiological and biochemical healing.  While I am truly grateful for my family, my health, and my home, I am also thankful for the little things in my life ~ for sunshine on the long weekend, for my tiny dog that thinks he is my bodyguard, for the full double rainbow I saw last week, for hugs, for the colour of the fall leaves, for printers that work properly, and for heartburn... ...for heartburn ?  Well, I have to look at it positively.  Heartburn is a clear sign that somethi...

The olive is: low in cholesterol high in dietary fiber, iron, and copper rich in essential fatty acids (Omega 9 monounsaturated) and calories a good source of Vitamin E, a fat-soluble antioxidant that neutralizes damaging free radicals, along with polyphenols and flavonoids, which have anti-inflammatory properties. Eat olives in moderation if you are interested in: weight loss (low-fat, low-calorie diet) avoiding salt or vinegar (olives are high in sodium due to the brining) avoiding iron (hemochromatosis) The timing of the harvest determines the color ~ they are green when picked before they are ripe and deep purple if picked when ripened.  Many black olives are blackened after harvesting and then the color is 'fixed' with ferrous sulfate/ferrous gluconate, often used to treat iron-deficiency anemia.  If you suffer from hemochromotosis (when the amount of iron stored in the body is too high), you may wish to avoid olives black...

Ontario has two types of plums:  Japanese and European.  When buying plums, rich color equals quality.  European blue plums will not continue to ripen after harvest; however, Japanese plums (Shiro and Early Golden) will continue to ripen after harvest.  According to Foodland Ontario's website, the Early Golden variety (freestone) is Ontario's most popular yellow plum.  They are available through July and August.  I used this plum to make the jam featured below.  Nutrients Plums ( http://www.ontariotenderfruit.com/ ) Plums are low in calories, and contain very good amounts of vitamin C, good amounts of vitamin A, B2, potassium, dietary fiber, and some iron.  Fresh plums and dried prunes reportedly contain phytonutrients (phenols) that function as antioxidents that may be helpful in preventing macular degeneration, boosting immunity, improving cardiac health, and protecting against cancer.  The vitamin C content assists in bette...