Advice About Dietary Habits

One of the most essential elements in the naturopathic approach is the modification of diet. Hippocrates is quoted:

"Let your food be your medicine and your medicine be your food."

The Sustainable Farming Connection

A website devoted to sustainable farming, which in a nutshell is an ecologically responsible method of farming.

Organic Trade Association Homepage

The home page of this association provides some good information and further contacts and links for the organic food industry and related sites.

Campaign for Food Safety

Great site with scads of information to take in. Includes info on pretty much all threats to our food supply and supplies ways in which to participate in taking a stand.

Rural Advancement Foundation International

Group from Winnipeg with good information about the social effects of advancement and about how our own institutions are often short-sighted about diversity and how it affects food.

Organic Consumers Association

Another site with much information and food for thought about organic food issues that are important to us all.

Physicans & Scientists Against Genetically Engineered Food

Exactly what it says.

Dietary Approach

What is a sensible approach to diet? This is one of the most common questions that a naturopath is asked. In the modern world, the diet of humans has changed a great deal, even from only fifty years ago. In addition, the way that we produce that food is also quite different.

Facts About Fats

Dietary fats have received much bad press because of their contribution to such disease conditions as heart disease, cancer, gall bladder disease, diabetes, osteoarthritis, and poor physical fitness. However, what is not widely recognized is that there is a difference between various types of fats. Some fats are not only beneficial but vitally important to our health.

The Fiber of Life

Fiber is one of those things that most people associate with bran - flaky, brown and not very appetizing. But there is more to fiber than bran. Implicated in many diseases, fiber intake is usually not a strong point in Western diets. Look here for a description of fiber and its benefits.

Water, water, everywhere

Water covers the earth's surface, much of life on earth is thought to have evolved from it, and the cells of humans are bathed in it. Water is crucial to life, and we ought to pay it more attention!

Protein and the amino acids

Protein is an essential foodstuff that we need to pay attention to. here is a brief introduction to protein.