How to Improve Your Colon Health in 4 Easy Steps

How to Improve Your Colon Health in 4 Easy Steps

I remember being weighed down by a horrifying feeling of inferiority during an Asian Medicine lecture one day.  You see, I have always been proud of a strong and reliable digestive system until I learned that the Chinese believe that one should experience an elimination – you know, when you make “a #2” – at least 2-3 times a day.

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“Eat Me”

In Alice’s world there was a pill to make you smaller and another to make you taller.  In the world we live, however, we have pills that cover us for virtually everything – even racism.  My pharmacology group recently presented an article on how blood pressure medication reduced racial prejudice by 66%. (An aside:  perhaps more people should be on this medication.)

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Feeling Just Beachy!

Feeling Just Beachy!

There’s something to be said for good company, sun and sand to bring you out of a dark, rainy slump.  Last week was a particularly emotional one for me, which in part is due to my Reiki initiation, which can cause some energetic side effects, and some events happening on the home front.

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Treat the Individual

I can’t really say that I’m a creature of habit. I easily tire of routine and consistency.  Maybe it was for this reason that I felt the need to take off from Canada for a few years and travel, why I remain a perpetual student (no two days are the same and we get a 4-month summer of something radically different).  The student life serves me well in breaking up the routine.

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Almond Shells

When I was small I used to sit in a shopping cart, eating almonds off of the pile in the grocery store, while Nonna shopped for food.  She would hand me shelled almonds to snack on, but she would buy them in bulk, with their shells, and we’d crack them at home.

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