Summertime Long weekend! Burgers, mmm

Long weekends are fantastic but long weekends in the summer are by far the best!   Whether you spend it with family, up at the cottage, in the city by the lake or relaxing at home there is often one thing in common, BARBEQUE!

Now as holistic nutritionists we should be shaking our heads and warning you against Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), Heterocyclic amines (HCAs), Advanced glycation…

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Cinnamon-orange pancakes

Monday’s, doesn’t it just make you want to want to curl back into bed wishing it was still the weekend? We still feel that way this Monday morning, so we thought this week we would talk breakfast.  What’s better than a pancake breakfast on a sunday morning (yes we are pretending it’s Sunday), a pancake breakfast that is also nutritious!  We love the book CHIA…

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Cha cha Chia!?!

Most of us know this familiar tune and instantly think about animal/head shaped pottery that grows “hair” but the word Chia in the health industry is a bit different.  Chia is a seed; it’s a desert plant that is part of the mint family.  The seeds are no bigger than a poppy seed and can be black, grey or white in color.  If you see…

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