All across Canada, variations of the fever scenes occur nightly.  Fever, the most common symptom of illness in children provokes a fever among parents that medical professionals call fever phobia- a phenomenon that produces a great deal of unnecessary parental anxiety. 

How Fever Works

Fever is created naturally by our bodies as part of a well designed defense against disease causing organisms.  In other words, fever is a sign of illness, not an illness itself.   A fever occurs when the temperature rises [...] . . . → Read More: Fever Phobia. Why do we sweat over high temperatures?

Getting sick at any time is unpleasant, but when it happens on a holiday it can seem especially cruel.  Unfortunately, vacations are exactly where earaches, motion sickness and tummy bugs are likely to occur, and it can be daunting to visit doctors in foreign places.  

Happily, many travel ailments are easy to avoid if you follow these handy tips.

AVOIDING EARACHES:

Swimmers ear: If you are in a hot climate, try to avoid putting your head under water when swimming in pools or [...] . . . → Read More: The Trouble With Travel…

The journey of optimum health begins in your grocery cart.  Chucking the processed, the salty, the fatty foods is one step.  Choosing whole, fresh foods is step two. What foods to choose? If you start with the concept of it being real and unprocessed you really can’t lose. 

There are groups of foods however, hat pack a nutritional punch.  These contain higher concentrations of essential nutrients than others, with less of the stuff that isn’t good for us, like saturated fats [...] . . . → Read More: Super Foods!

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