BHC Blogs

Eat Your Greens Detox Soup

This recipe for “Eat Your Greens Detox Soup,” comes from The Oh She Glows Cookbook by Angela Liddon. This soup is great for cleansing and detoxifying your body, especially before or after the indulgent holiday season. It’s packed with immunity-boosting ingredients like broccoli, ginger, mushrooms, kale, nori, and garlic. 1 1⁄2 teaspoons coconut oil or olive …

Detoxing and Cleansing

March is Liver and Kidney Health Awareness Month! Your liver and kidneys are vital organs.  They process and filter everything that you put into your body.  If your liver and kidneys are healthy, then you will be too.  Periodically, these organs need some extra support and a bit of a rest. Let’s look at the …

What is Contemporary Medical Acupuncture?

Contemporary Medical Acupuncture is evidence based, precise peripheral nerve stimulation, in which fine solid needles are inserted into various locations in the body, with or without electrical stimuli. The end result is the balancing of abnormal activity in the nervous systems. Needling certain points in the body stimulates the nervous system to release chemicals in …

Osteopathy at the Heart of the matter

Valentines Day often paints many pictures of hearts. The heart is the seat of love. It is also a very important organ and heart health should not be taken lightly. It is one of the leading causes of death claiming more than 33, 000 deaths in Canada each year and 1.4 million living with heart disease.

A Time for Change

With the new year comes new hopes, dreams, opportunities, and ambitions. At the forefront of all of this comes your health. With all the things we would like to do we need our health to do them. And now with the feasting, the visiting, and celebrating coming to a close it’s time to get into a routine. A new routine.

Bring on Christmas – Hold the Stress

If you could change one aspect of your life that would give you the greatest chance of living a very long and healthy life, what do you think it would be? The answer is – reduce your stress. Research shows that the people who live the longest are at their ideal body weight and have the ability to handle stress well.