You may have noticed ads on TV that say paying fees for financial products and services could be eating as much as 30% into your retirement. Often, fees charged are based on the product and are not necessarily determined by your advisor. While you could opt for less expensive products, you may have to forfeit the benefits of the expert advice your advisor can provide. Your advisor is there to guide you through important decisions and acts as a sounding board and a counsellor. Be sure to consider whether lowering the cost outweighs receiving beneficial advice when making your decision.
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Managing Weight with Laser Acupuncture
Excess weight can be due to a variety of underlying causes, such as hormonal imbalance, emotional eating, liver dysfunction, and malabsorption. Weight management programs require a tailored approach to help clients successfully lose weight. Laser acupuncture uses a non-invasive cold laser to stimulate various acupressure points on your body. Stimulating these points causes your body to release endorphins, which can help with suppressing your appetite, controlling hunger cravings, speeding up your metabolism, and enhancing your current diet and exercise program, all of which can help lead to weight loss and successful weight management.
Keeping Up in School
Underlying learning difficulties can often make it hard for children to process information properly and in a timely manner. This can lead to increased time needed to complete homework or understand instruction, and pieces may be missing when the child comes home to do their homework. Often, children with learning difficulties will develop various methods and skills to compensate for their struggles with schoolwork, but these sometimes only work for a short period of time and don’t really get to the root of what’s going on. Determining the cause of a child’s learning difficulties can provide insight into how to grow areas of the child’s brain to help them keep pace in school and decrease anxiety.
Bothersome Bunions
Q: What is a bunion? A: A bunion is a bony growth on the side of the base of your big toe. Both pressure from your shoes and motion in the big toe joint can cause pain. Bunions can be due to heredity, or a biomechanical problem (over-pronation). Wearing a pad over the bunion can help to reduce friction on the inside of your shoes. If you think over-pronation is the cause, try a custom orthotic and find shoes that fit properly. More painful bunions often require surgical correction.
The Month for Showing Affection
Life is short, and February is even shorter. With Valentine’s Day looming, it’s not easy if one or both partners experience low libido. There are many reasons for a low libido, including hormonal fluctuations, medications, sleep problems, illness, depression, stresses of daily life, etc. Working with a naturopathic physician can help you identify the causes of a low libido using diagnostic measures such as hormone testing. You’ll receive simple, effective treatments like IV vitamin therapy, which infuses vitamins, minerals, and nutrients directly into the bloodstream, bypassing your digestive system and allowing for maximum absorption for better overall health.
DIY Nourishing Hair Mask
In the middle of winter, we need all the help with moisturizing that we can get! Luckily, ingredients like aloe vera can help soothe and moisturize winter dryness and itching. If you have a dry and itchy scalp or dry hair, try this nourishing aloe vera-based hair mask recipe. Combine about ½ cup of aloe vera gelly (increase amount if you have longer hair), a few drops of pure lemon juice, and 1 tbsp of coconut oil in a blender. Add mixture to hair and let sit for 30 minutes. Use shampoo on hair before wetting it, then rinse thoroughly.
New in Your Community
Welcome Cheryl Fedeluk of Current Expressions, who has just moved her business to 1065 St. Mary’s Road. She brings over 20 years of experience in helping clients age naturally. Current Expressions offers LED red light therapy, cupping facials, and microcurrent facial sculpting. Cosmetic microcurrent helps improve the appearance of aged and slackened skin, acne scars, dark circles and puffiness, enlarged pores, and muscle tone. Cupping treatments tone your facial muscles, reduce under-eye puffiness, and improve circulation. LED red light therapy helps to increase collagen and fibroblasts help reduce pore size, smooth out fine lines and wrinkles, and improve skin texture.
Structured Water
Science proves waters responsible for longevity. Dr. Marcel Vogel (Father of Structured Water Science) calls it ‘liquid crystal’ completely compatible with instant cell wall entry & exit. Natural Action Technologies Structuring Devices mimic nature, transforming any water energetically by double vortexing, creating a 6 molecule cluster, an easy uptake into each cell’s aquaporin channel. “Water inside your cells is absolutely critical for health”, Dr. Mercola. Suzanne Forcese. SunriseStructuredWellness.com
Safely Dispose of Unused Drugs
Ensure that unwanted prescriptions don’t pose a risk to you and others. Instead of flushing them down the toilet or throwing them into the garbage, which can harm the environment, follow these tips for disposing of unused or expired medications safely: Check your medicine cabinet at least twice a year for expired prescription and non-prescription medications (including vitamins and other natural supplements), as well as any medications you no longer need. Look at the medication for signs of discolouration or strange odours. Place expired medications in a paper bag and take them to your local pharmacy for proper disposal.
Health Basics: Pathway to Vitality
Reduce joint pain and the risk of heart attack and stroke, boost energy and protect against 50 chronic illnesses – Health Basics is a simple, positive, and empowering group-based lifestyle program intended for people who want to choose healthy living, lose weight, and become more active. Participants learn simple changes and set goals to practice their new skills. Small group discussion and a positive atmosphere foster accountability and learning. Be one of the more than 4600 people who have benefitted from this program over the past 10 years. Visit www.reddeerpcn.com to learn more about Health Basics. To register, call 403-343-9100.
What’s a Reserve Fund Study?
Replacing the roof at a complex. New asphalt in the parking lot. Upgrading underground utilities. Condominiums age and need to be repaired and maintained. The Condominium Property Act requires that condominium corporations establish and maintain a capital replacement reserve fund to provide for major repairs and replacement of property and common property. A new reserve fund study must be conducted every five years to make sure your building’s reserve fund is up-to-date. Why is this important? This allows you to get on with enjoying condo living without unexpected repair and maintenance costs and even to sell your condo with confidence.
