Diabetes is a “silent killer.” About 12 million Canadians unknowingly have prediabetes or diabetes; more than 5.7 million live with diagnosed diabetes (type 1 and type 2). Here’s how a plant&#x2d;based diet helps with diabetes management and prevention.

The power of a plant-based diet 

Natural is the way. We bring you credible approaches to preventative health, holistic treatments, and supportive supplements.

Health

A New Recipe for Diabetes

An a-to-zzz guide 

Sleepless in Menopause

If you could ask the trillions of bacteria that reside in your gut about one life necessity that ensures their long&#x2d;lasting well&#x2d;being (and implicitly yours), they’d sum it up with two words: quality sleep.

Good quality sleep improves your microbiome and digestive process 

Great Sleep—Happy Tummy

One night of rotten sleep can give you a head full of pudding. But when sleep loss becomes chronic, it can affect mood, weight, hormones, and immunity. Learn lifestyle strategies to improve sleep tonight and invest in better health tomorrow.

The healing power of zzz’s and impact of counting sheep

Making up for Lost Sleep

Learn how to eat healthy with these habits and tips and make better food choices for your diet. Next Gen Natural column by Michelle von Hahn.

Your guide to living a healthy lifestyle from the inside out 

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Life is about balance. We provide you with strategies for a lifelong commitment to strength and well-being in all areas of your life. 

Lifestyle

10 Tips for a Healthy Diet

Take care of yourself with these popular health and wellness trends. Next Gen Natural column by Michelle von Hahn.

Today’s most popular ways to take care of yourself 

Explore These Top 10 Wellness Trends

Building up your cognitive reserve may be a way to offset age&#x2d;related changes in cognition, including memory and decision making.

Decision making and memory as we grow older 

Let’s Age Well

Should you eat them steamed, roasted, boiled, or raw? Find out the healthiest way to prepare vegetables so you can get the most out of their nutrients.

The answers may surprise you 

Food is medicine. It all starts here. We create recipes with functional, whole organic ingredients that nourish your body and feed your soul. 

Food

Raw or Cooked? The Healthiest Ways to Prepare Vegetables

Lysine is an essential amino acid with many important roles throughout the body. Find out why a lysine&#x2d;rich diet helps fuel your health on the inside and out.

Why a lysine-rich diet is critical to your health 

Strengthen your defences. We arm you with tools to protect yourself, your family, and your community. 

Immunity

10 Important Health Benefits of Lysine

Aging can be painful, but it doesn't have to be! Check out this blueprint for pain&#x2d;free aging to improve your quality of life in the future.

Soothing pain for healthy aging 

Your Blueprint for Pain-free Aging

What you do, what you eat, and how you live can help produce new neurons in the brain, which may aid your cognitive function as you age.

Neurogenesis—creating new neurons as we age 

All in Your Head

Your abdominal muscles play an important role in supporting your body, so you should keep them strong. Learn about 10 Pilates moves for a strong core.

Improve your balance and posture

Fitness

10 Easy Pilates Moves for a Strong Core

Period&#x2d;tracking apps are more popular than ever, but could giving these apps your data end up doing more harm than good?

Why you might want to keep the details of your next period offline

Are Period-Tracking Apps Harmful or Helpful?

Discovering the country’s bounty from coast to coast, market style 

10 of the Best Farmers’ Markets in Canada

You may think it’s just another herb, but there are numerous health benefits of astragalus. Learn more about how this adaptogen supports the body.

It’s a versatile and dynamic adaptogen 

10 Health Benefits of Astragalus

Join us as we explore ways we can benefit from the power of togetherness.

Reclaiming the Power of Together

Here’s what you’ll need to know as we look ahead to another cold and flu season.

Family comes first. We equip you with the tools to create a holistically healthy family now, and for generations to come.

Family

Keep Your Family Virus Free

Follow the discussion with two national experts in the field of childhood trauma.

Ways to assist children’s healing 

Coping with Trauma, Carefully

How to spot the signs of nutrient deficiencies 

When Our Kids Aren’t Getting Enough

Today, three&#x2d;quarters of children and teens don’t meet many of Health Canada’s basic recommendations. Here’s why we need to give kids a healthy start.

Eating for Life

Lisa Edge of Pallet Shelter shares how the company uses its mission to end unsheltered homelessness as a means of ending divisiveness and helping people belong.

Embracing the benefits of community can have a profound impact on mental health

United We Stand

Stress is inherent to life, and though a little bit keeps us engaged in a healthy way, too much of it can affect mental health.

Forgiveness and self-care tools 

Cultivating Mental Resilience

Synesthesia is a fascinating neurological condition in which one sense is simultaneously perceived by one or more other senses.

What it’s like to taste shapes and hear fragrances 

The World of Synesthesia

Is your depression a neurotransmitter problem, or could it be inflammation in the brain? Dig into the triggers and symptoms of brain inflammation, and learn strategies to extinguish the fire for better mental health, energy, and cognition.

Could brain inflammation be keeping you depressed and stressed? 

Brain on Fire

When it comes to nutrition, taste, and sustainability, how does potato milk compare to other varieties of plant&#x2d;based milk?

Everything you should know about the newest non-dairy darling 

Protect our planet better. Sustainability is the foundation of natural health. We teach you how to embrace a more sustainable lifestyle, one step at a time, because a healthier planet means a healthier you.