As a seminar speaker, I am on the road lecturing many days of the year. As you can imagine it’s not always easy to find healthy, low-low-fat food – a message I preach at each seminar. However, with experience you learn to find the solution even in the toughest of situations.
For example, last week I drove 3 hours to Sarnia, Ontario, with the glaring sun hitting my windshield in the late afternoon as I drove west from Toronto. It certainly drained some of my energy as I piled up the mileage driving the tediou...
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Last Saturday, I had the honour of lecturing all day on the subject of nutrition and cancer in the beautiful city of Kelowna, British Columbia. The audience included a registered nurse and medical doctor, who are starting up a clinic that will offer integrative cancer therapies to residents in western Canada. Sally, the nurse, recently came to Toronto to visit the integrative cancer treatment centre, where I work with an oncology nurse and a brilliant medical doctor. Working together, we provide cancer patients wit...
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Highlights From The Oxford Project to Investigate Memory and Ageing (OPTIMA study) – 2010
Source: Online journal Public Library of Science ONE
Author: D Smith et al – Oxford University England
Study Group - 168 individuals over 70 years old with mild cognitive impairment.
Treatment Group were given daily supplementation the following B-vitamins:
folic acid - 800 mcg
vitamin B12 - 500 mcg and
vitamin B6 - 20 ...
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In recent years medical research has shown that supplementation with the herb Butterbur can reduce the frequency of migraines by up to 77%.
These studies have been published in prestigious journals including, Neurology, Headache, Lancet, British Medical Journal, International Journal of Clinical and Pharmacological Therapies and others
The Gold Standard Dosage of Butterbur is 75 mg twice per day.
The herb should be standardized to contain 15% sesquiterpenes as petasines
These active constituents have ...
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Another study shows that vitamin D supplementation can reverse osteoporosis in post menopausal women
Reference: Ishijima M et al. Minimum Required Vitamin D Level for Optimal Increase in Bone Mineral Density with Alendronate Treatment in Osteoporotic Women (FOSOAMAX). Journal: Calcified Tissue International 2009 Oct 1
In this study 52 postmenopausal women with osteoporosis were given 5 mg Alendronate (FOSAM...
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