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Probiotic Power
You may have heard of probiotics, or good bacteria, but what you may not realize is just how good they are. Research on probiotics is gaining momentum as these microscopic wonders show increasing promise in preventing and controlling a surprising number of conditions in people of all ages.
Your digestive tract is filled with hundreds of bacteria-some good and some bad. In a normal digestive system, the good and bad bacteria strike a careful balance to keep you healthy. You can develop diarrhea when that balance is disturbed by illness or certain medications, resulting in reduced probiotic levels.
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Vij's Setting a Green Table Standart
For over a decade now, Vikram Vij has been an ambassador of good taste. Together with his wife and partner, Meeru, he has been guided by the simplest and purest of principles: to offer a taste of their homeland using the freshest local ingredients possible.
Within a single year of opening their namesake restaurant, Vij's, in 1994, the duo had captured the curiosity of a grateful clientele and accolades from top critics.
Both born in India with strong familial memories of the foods of their youth, it was not until the early 1990s that they met in Vancouver where the cultures of the world pool and swirl as nowhere else.
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Go Green and Lean
Numerous studies have shown that a vegetarian diet can reduce the risk of many chronic health problems such as heart disease, diabetes, and colon cancer.
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The Perfect Cup
Now that coffee is officially on the antioxidant list, we may as well really up the ante and add another newcomer to the "health food" family-chocolate!
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Going Carless
The love of my life is the 1969 Toyota Corolla that I bought in high school and have driven ever since.
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Making Sense of Soy
Soy is the Jekyll and Hyde of the plant world. With reported benefi ts often contradicted by accounts of negative effects, confusion about soy's true nature abounds.
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Corn Kernels of Truth
Dare to start a conversation about bean sprouts or broccoli at a party and watch those around you drift off toward the punchbowl.
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Cancer: 101 Solutions to a Preventable Epidemic
by Liz Armstrong, Guy Dauncey, and Anne WordsworthNew Society Publishers, 2007, 317 pages, $27.95ISBN: 9780865715424
Friends who found me reading Cancer over the past week were all equally shocked and vocal: "Why are you reading such a depressing book?
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Walking the Enviromental Talk
It's one thing to talk the talk; it's quite another to walk it. What would you be willing to give up to save the environment?
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