Category Archives: Nutrition

Aug 05

Vitamin D in Pregnancy and Infancy

Over the last weekend in June, the Naturopathic Doctors at Vive Integrative Health Group attended the biennial Health Fusion conference – an interesting and informative conference hosted by the Canadian Association of Naturopathic Doctors. This year, the theme was Family Medicine and there was an array of lecture topics including environmental impacts on men’s health […]

Vitamin D in Pregnancy and Infancy
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  • Getting Value from your Nutritional Supplements

    24 September 2014

    One would hope that Natural Health Products, especially common ones like multivitamins, provide health benefit to the consumer, and certainly not harm. A recent article by GreenM

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  • Eat To Defeat Cancer

    18 August 2014

    Of course our diet is exceptionally important to health. Recently we stumbled upon a very interesting TED lecture explaining some of the science as to HOW our diet is important t

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  • Eating Organic

    13 June 2014

    Recently the Environmental Working Group published its 2011 Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides in Produce. On behalf of Vive Integrative Health Group and environmental medicine

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  • The Ravages of Mercury

    02 May 2014

    In the past few years, researchers have been looking at the mercury levels of Canadians. From average urban city dwellers to tar sands workers, our mercury levels can be very hig

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  • Controversy: Flax Seeds and their role in Cancer Prevention

    24 March 2014

    When we ask our patients if they use flax seeds in their diet, most will say “YES, I have been using ground up flax seeds for years!” Most often people eat them for their fib

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  • Preventing Colds and Flus

    14 February 2014

    Our perception of microbes is often skewed. Television commercials and magazine ads instil fear through their portrayal of viruses and bacteria as little monsters with sharp claw

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