Warming up with food

In traditional Chinese Medicine, there is a practice to eat and drink with the season.  This usually follows the nature of our bodies, how we use or conserve our energy and how we interact with our environment.   Fever, cold, headaches, body pains and joint (arthritic) pains are usually worse during this time due to the contracting nature of cold within our bodies.

H1N1

Well it has been a while since I had a chance to update my patients on some changes that have happened in what seems only weeks ago and yet it has been 6 months. I am now mom to two little girls – our latest addition is Isabel.
Thank you to everyone for your patience, good wishes and congratulations.

Now up for discussion is the latest in health concerns…H1N1…so many concerns for so many people. Yet I really feel that the World Health Organization (WHO) has responded in such an alarmed manner mainly due to the scare that we had with SARS, and the anticipation of the avian flu. It seems to me that for some reason we are ‘awaiting’ a pandemic of some kind. Why? maybe ‘awaiting’ is not the right word, it really is fear. We fear the possibility of a pandemic!