Now you can improve the fat burning process 24 hours a day by Norm Danniels
Whether you are trying to lose a few stubborn pounds or completely reshape your body, you need to make sensible dietary changes and engage in some regular exercise. A magic pill to do all the work would be great, but it just doesn’t work that way. Having said that, an effective fat burning supplement can be a wonderful catalyst to help you achieve your weight loss goals and accelerate the whole fat burning process. It needs to be strategic and target the specific fat burning opportunities that occur over the course of the day. Men and women are metabolically and hormonally very different. Women, for example... [ Read More...]

Overweight Pets - Its not just a human problem! by Linda Buhler, Pet Practitioner,
Just like us, pets that are overweight are at a much higher risk of developing a number of health conditions. Problems like arthritis, heart disease, respiratory difficulties, and diabetes are among the long list of issues seen in cats and dogs who weigh more than they should. Unfortunately, unlike humans, obesity in pets is often not taken very seriously. The best way to maintain a healthy weight for your pet is to feed them an appropriate diet that is adjusted to ... [ Read More...]

How to Buy and Store Vegetables - Maria Carr
Your mother's voice echoes in your head every time you head to the supermarket. You know you should eat more leafy greens, rainbow colored vegetables, and fibre-rich fruit, but it seems like every time you shell out the cash for the fresh stuff, you end up throwing much of it away. You go shopping on Saturday, and by Monday, the lettuce is wilted, the tomatoes are mealy and squishy, and the avocados, well, their buttery flesh is streaked with black. Food is expensive, and you can't afford to waste it. If you feel like you throw away a lot of food, you're probably right--and you're not alone. We throw away nearly 31.6 million tons of food a year. That's like throwing away $600! To help cut down on food waste, you need how to store it, how long it should last, and what to eat first. We've compiled a guide to produce that will have you eating (not wasting) your precious produce... [ Read More...]

Shamanic Journeying & Sacred Medicine: Alchemy of the Soul by Dawn Dancing Otter
The first healing that we are historically aware of is Shamanism. Though it has gone by many different names, nearly every culture, the world over, has a version of Shamanic practice. Even considering its longevity and foundational presence in human life, this practice has remained relatively enigmatic until very recently. Shamanic Sacred Medicine is all about returning to ourselves and healing our illusions of separateness. As we heal our fragmented consciousness, we expand compassion and... [ Read More...]

Your Brain Health and Aging with Dr. Robert J. Sutherland, Chair of Neuroscience at the Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience at the University of Lethbridge.
Have you ever forgotten a name or a fact and attributed it to age? Of course you have if you are human. The relationship between memory and aging plus the potential causes and risk reduction for Alzheimers is of paramount interest in our communities.  We have the oldest population in British Columbia. Life expectancy in BC is the highest in the country – 70 years for men and 83 years for women.. [Read More...]

Being Indigo - What is an Indigo – part two by Sharon Taphorn, Vancouver,BC
Indigo’s and Crystals share many of the same traits, the main difference being that Indigo’s have a temper, Crystals do not. Rainbows are first timers on the earth journey, so for them, everything is new, they have an extreme amount of energy & will not wait for your time schedule in anything...[Read More..]

What is Classical Homeopathy? by  Katharina Riedener, Osoyoos, BC & Red Deer, AB
Homeopathy is a natural system of medicine based on the practice of treating like with like. HOMEOPATHY is derived from the Greek word HOMOIOS, meaning like or similar and pathy which means suffering. Homeopathy is concerned with the treatment of you as an individual person with all your characteristics, preferences, as well as your personality and your feelings. The remedies will stimulate and encourage your body’s own healing energies... [ Read More...]

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Caponata

Ingredients: 4 small eggplants * 6 tbsp salt (90 grams) * 2 tomatoes * 2 tbsp olive oil (30 milliliters) * 4 peppers * 4 zucchini * 4 white onions * 1/2 cup wine vinegar * 1 tsp sugar (5 grams) * 1 spoon capers (20 grams) * 2 bay leaves * 1 cup pitted green olives * 1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil * Salt * Pepper.
Directions: Preparation time is 180 minutes. Preheat oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit. Cut eggplant into piece, sprinkle with salt and let it stand with a heavy weight on it for 30 minutes. Chop up the tomatoes, heat oil in the saucepan then add the tomatoes and cook for 15 minutes. Cut peppers and zucchini into pieces. Slice the onions thin. Pat eggplant dry. Heat vinegar in saucepan over a low flame, dissolve sugar in vinegar and mix together all ingredients and place in an oiled roasting pan and bake in the oven at 350 degrees for 1 1/2 to 2 hours turning every 30 minutes. Yield: 4

Stuffed Tomatoes

Ingredients:  *  2 tbsp olive oil  *  2 tbsp each of fresh basil,
oregano, parsley, chives; chopped  *  1 cup goat’s cheese
*  4  tomatoes  *  salt to taste.
Directions:  Using a sharp knife remove the stems from the tomatoes, approx. 2” wide by 1” deep. Roughly chop the fresh herbs and mix with goat’s cheese. Divide the cheese mixture equally among the tomatoes
and stuff. Prepare the BBQ to medium high heat. Place the tomatoes
on the grill; cover BBQ with lid. Cook until soft, about 7-10 minutes.

Crustless Quiche

Ingredients: 1 tsp. Canola Oil *  1/4 cup finely chopped onion *  1 pkg. (10oz) frozen chopped broccoli, thawed, drained. *  2 cups egg beaters *  1/2 cup lowfat cottage cheese *  1/2 cup 2% shredded reduced fat cheddar cheese *  8 tsp. black pepper.
Directions: 70 Minutes to Prepare and Cook. Preheat oven to 350. Heat oil in small nonstick skillet on medium-high heat. Add onions, cook 5 minutes or until onions are tender, stirring occasionally. Add broccoli; mix well. Spoon into lightly oiled 9-in pie plate. Mix remaining ingredients until well blended; pour over broccoli layer. Bake 45-50 minutes or until center is set and top is golden brown. Servings: 6

Home-made Chai Tea

Ingredients
Black Tea – either 2 tea bags or 2 tsp loose tea * 1 cup milk * 1 cup water * 3 cloves * 3 cardamom seeds * 1 small cinnamon stick * 1 piece fresh ginger * Honey and/or sugar to taste.
Instructions
Mix water, milk & spices and bring to a low boil. Add black tea, cover and let stand 2 – 3 minutes. Strain spices and tea. Sweeten to taste

Simple Sticky Rice

Ingredients - 2 Cups Uncooked Sticky Rice
Instructions - Soak Rice overnight or for at least 4 hours, Drain and Rinse in Cold Water, Please rice in a steaming basket or vegetable steamer over boiling water, cover and steam for 20 minutes, For uniform steaming, flip rice over for the last 5-10 minutes, Remove from boiling water and place in covered dish that is not air tight.

Back to School - Healthy Lunch Box ideas

A healthy lunchbox can help to improve your child's attention, behaviour and learning throughout the day and into the afternoon. It should provide one third of your child's daily requirements of nutrients. Here are some healthy snack ideas for back to school. Organic Bananas, Yogurts, Sliced Carrots, Boiled egg, Multi-grain sandwiches, Whole-grain breads or crackers, Light canned tuna fish, Cooked pasta, Raw vegetables that can be cut into slices, Fruits. Encourage the kids to make sandwiches with whole-grain breads or bagels; tortillas; or colorful wraps. Try different sandwich fillings, such as tabouli mixed with feta cheese in a pita pocket, or a veggie burger. To avoid food warming up and risking our kids' safety it is important to ensure our children's lunch boxes stay chilled. Juice and water can be freezed and put it into your lunchbox to keep your food cool.

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A culture addicted to security, comfort and ‘be all you want to be’ makes no time in its public or private life for sorrow or uncertainty or the end of things.  To a culture like our own, grief is mostly medicated or resolved, and our hearts elbow our lives out of the way in their headlong search for safe landings and getting their needs met.  But what would our culture look like and how would our children think of us fifty years from now, if we began to honour and teach grief as a skill, as vital to our personal and cultural and spiritual life as the skill of loving?

Stephen Jenkinson, is the subject of Grief Walker, a National Film Board of Canada documentary The new screening of the new National Film Board documentary film ‘Grief walker’, will be devoted to prolonged wondering about how glimpsing the end of our loves and ultimately our life could and should be the real birth of our love of life.

Stephen Jenkinson, MTS, MSW, RSW, is revolutionizing the way we think about death and dying. He has a Master’s Degree from Harvard University (Theological Studies) and the University of Toronto (Social Work). As a palliative caregiver, sculptor, traditional canoe builder, and winner of a Governor General’s Award for Architecture, Stephen is a sought after speaker and teacher in the palliative care field and his work has been featured in several television documentaries on spirituality and wilderness creativity. He is the author of Money and The Soul’s Desires (Stoddart Publishing) and a contributing author in the recently published Palliative Care - Core Skills and Clinical Competencies (Elsevier Saunders Medical Publishers).

Stephen Jenkinson will be holding workshops in Penticton:
Friday 3rd October - The Tangled Garden of Wisdom and Grief: by Stephen Jenkinson
Carrying the Dead and the Orphan Heart of Palliative Care by Stephen Jenkinson. This workshop will be
and Grief Illiteracy and on what the care of our dying people should have as its root and its flower.
Saturday 4th October - A Hand Made Life by Stephen Jenkinson
This meeting is for craftspeople. For years I've wanted to do a teaching that makes a song of praise,
gratitude and encouragement for the makers in our midst who have not abandoned and forgotten their thumbs, and for the made things which are more often trivialized or enslaved than honourably employed. This meeting will be that song.

The Griefwalking documentary film and workshops are also been held in other cities across canada, such as:
Castlegar, BC - Mission, BC -- Surrey, BC - Williams Lake, BC - Whitehorse, YT - Salt Spring Island, BC
Calgary, AB - Montreal, QC -and Ontario.

Horizon Homeopathic

Help your body heal itself... Homeopathy uses natural remedies both to help the body heal itself and be free of disease as well as helping the immune system perform at it's optimum. Having studied in England, I now live in the beautiful Okanagan and practice from my home on the Westside of Kelowna. Contact Sara Fitzharris at Horizon Homeopathic
250 769 7280