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Book Club: Super Brain

By Deepak Chopra, MD & Rudy Tanzi, MD.

Learn the Super Brain dietary supplement – Ayurvedic Brain Support. Unleashing the Explosive Power of your Mind to Maximize Health, Happiness, and Spiritual Well-being. A manual for relating to the brain in a revolutionary new way, Super Brain shows you how to use your brain as a gateway for achieving health, happiness, and spiritual growth.

Super Brain explains by combining cutting-edge research and spiritual insights, demolishing the five most widespread myths about the brain that limit your potential, and then showing you methods to:

  • Use your brain instead of letting it use you
  • Create the ideal lifestyle for a healthy brain
  • Reduce the risks of aging
  • Promote happiness and well-being through the mind-body connection
  • Access the enlightened brain, the gateway to freedom and bliss
  • Overcome the most common challenges, such as memory loss, depression, anxiety, and obesity

The brain is not just the greatest gift that Nature has given us. It’s the gateway to an unlimited future that you can begin to live today.

deepakchopra.com

Early Winter Masala

A masala is any combination of spices blended and ground together.

Ingredients:

2 tablespoons cumin seeds
2 tablespoons caraway seeds
1 teaspoon yellow mustard seed
1 teaspoon turmeric powder
1 teaspoon garlic powder

Directions:

Roast the cumin, caraway and yellow mustard seed to a small pan and roast till the mustard seeds start to pop. Turn the heat off then add the spice powders to the blend. Put the blend into your mortar and pestle or spice grinder and grind the mixture. *Does not have to be ground into a fine powder.

Use on steamed vegetables, in stir fries, any soup or stew, in rice for added flavours or on popcorn! So yummy! Enjoy!

Kalee Mund is an Ayurvedic Counsellor, who teaches Ayurvedic Cooking Classes and other Ayurvedic Workshops.

[email protected]

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Health Spotlight: Comfort Keepers

Are you or a loved one looking for help maintaining an independent lifestyle? Comfort Keepers provides non-medical, in-home services for seniors and other adults in need of a helping hand with day to day activities, promoting a safe and enriched life for those under our care. The cornerstone of Comfort Keepers philosophy is a method we call Interactive Caregiving that promotes active engagement in daily activities. We know that physical and mental stimulation leads to a healthier, better quality of life.

We assist with a variety of daily tasks including meal preparation, light housekeeping, incidental transportation, personal care, errands and many others, while ensuring safety and independence. If you would like to enrich the life of a loved one, call Comfort Keepers to discuss how we can help, and receive a free in-home assessment.

204-488-4600

www.winnipeg.comfortkeepers.ca

Ever Wanted To Be a Hero?

My dad is 65 years old and on peritoneal dialysis. He was diagnosed with polycystic kidney disease in his mid 50’s, a genetic disease that attacks both kidneys until kidney failure. When you reach kidney failure, dialysis can only buy you so much time before your only option is to find a kidney donor. Unfortunately his chance of getting a deceased donor kidney is so low that a living donor is our only hope. No one in our family is capable of donating, either because we have been diagnosed with the disease ourselves or our health leaves us incapable of donating. We are now looking for a volunteer living kidney donor outside of our family. My dad needs a hero now so that he can be around to watch his five grandsons grow up.

For more information please visit our website at:  www.ralphskidneyquest.com

Whole Food Based Nutrition

The best way to reduce your risk of disease is to eat healthy. The right fuel in your body makes it run better. Fruits and vegetables are two key food groups known to contribute to better health. Juice Plus+ puts more of the valuable nutrition from fruits and vegetables back into your diet to improve health and wellness. The recommendation for a healthy diet is to fill half your plate at each meal with fruits and vegetables. Healthy eating takes time, planning, and can cost a lot of money. Rich in vitamins and antioxidants, Juice Plus+ products can help you fill that hole in your diet.

What to Expect Over Time – Improved immunity, better digestion, better sleep, fewer allergies, more energy, healthier hair, skin, nails and gums, improved circulation and heart health, peak athletic performance and recovery, reduced systemic inflammation, stronger anti-oxidant defence system, optimal mental, emotional and physical health.

Himalayan Salt Lamps

As well as being beautiful, salt lamps release negatively charged ions. These negative ions neutralize positively charged ions given out by computers, televisions, power grids etc. Negatively charged ions create an environment that is similar to being near the sea or a waterfall and help to purify the air. The salt lamps should be lit at all times as they give off more negative ions that way. By using Salt Crystal lamps, we can easily improve our environment, not only thorough the ionizing effects of the lamp but through the beautiful light they cast in a room! Place them near your television or computer area.

Let the Flu Go Around You

Since mid-Fall, TV commercials have been trumpeting the horrors of the “flu season”. Public health announcements urge us to get our “yearly flu shot”.

What’s never mentioned in the “flu warning” propaganda, is the versatility and adaptability of our remarkable immune system. Once our immune system has detected a foreign protein it mounts an immediate defense, attacking and destroying the alien molecules. The memory of that particular invader is permanent, enabling a future immune response to be swift and effective.

In the real world, our immune systems can be weakened due to life habits, circumstances, and stress. And, of course, being human, there’s plenty of stress from dawn to dusk. If you do the simple things that keep you healthy and well you’ll develop a stronger immune system, and will be far less likely to “catch” something.

 

Remote Workouts – The Next Big Thing

Online Coaching program just might be for you!

A growing number of individuals are turning to online classes as a convenient and interactive home-exercise option. It’s like having a trainer in your own home. An incredibly in depth assessment that tells your coach what they need to know about you before they develop your program. A complete individualized program that will take you from wherever you are to wherever you want to be.

Program includes:

  • Nutritional plan to compliment your workouts and training goals
  • Full access to a coach and mentor via email, phone calls or skype calls to get you the best results
  • All backed with a 100% money back guarantee

The reality of online training really comes down to understanding the needs of those looking for an easier way to change their lifestyle. While, many people still love training in a studio, it’s not always best suited for everyone.

 

What’s Old is New Again

Women in Asia, Russia and Europe have been utilizing negative pressure facial cupping for rejuvenation and youth maintenance for 5000 years. This gentle, but effective treatment makes you look and feel youthful and radiant. It tones your facial muscles and reduces under eye puffiness. A natural face lift that improves the blood circulation to your facial muscles. This treatment also increases circulation and nutrients to the skin, increases lymphatic flow, and reduces inflammation. By increasing blood flow and circulation to the skin, your skin will regain its youthful appearance.

Benefits may include the following:

  • reduce puffiness
  • dark circles
  • facial scars
  • lift muscles and jowls
  • plump lips
  • minimize under-eye bags
  • reduce sinuses

It gives your face a lymphatic drainage and increases circulation, resulting in a clearer, cleaner, more even complexion with such beautiful color you will forget to wear makeup!

Keep Merry in the Holidays!

Wouldn’t it be nice to enjoy the holidays without all the associated stress?

The anxiety we feel from last minute shopping, crowded stores and hosting family holiday dinners can easily add up and make our holidays overwhelming rather than merry. Exercise can help prevent and treat symptoms caused by stress and can defend against symptoms of anxiety, guard against depressive symptoms, and enhance psychological well-being.

Be consistent and set a reasonable, yet challenging, workout schedule. Exercising every other day may seem like an impossible task, especially during the busy holiday season. But it is exactly the commitment you need to ward off all that holiday stress and anxiety. Exercise can provide energy, rather than taking it away, providing you with the extra boost you’ll need to get everything checked off your holiday to-do list.

 

Health Spotlight: Diabetes Care

Did you know more than 9 million people in Canada are living with diabetes or pre-diabetes?

People living with diabetes can lower their risk of suffering heart attack, stroke, and damage to the eyes, kidneys and nerves with 16 to 40% respectively. Diabetes not only those suffering from it but also their families and loved ones.

As a Certified Diabetes Educator, I’m here to help people with diabetes to identify and overcome obstacles that prevent them from managing their diabetes in the best possible way. My role is to help you develop skills to self-manage in ways that will fit your life, while providing ongoing guidance, support and motivation. This one-on-one approach translates into improvement of blood sugar, blood pressure, lipids and weight loss goals, delay in development of complications, improvement of symptoms and quality of life, fewer hospitalizations and lower health care costs.

I’m here to help you can manage diabetes instead of diabetes managing you! I look forward to working with you and help you to thrive!

Mathilda Prinsloo, Diabetes Care & Wellness
204-996-3744