With the Ontario blueberries being abundant and delicious this time of year, it is the perfect time to whip up a batch of blueberry-lemon zest muffins and share them with your friends! Enjoy! Click here to watch the video with Chef Robert Mills
Andrew Weil, M.D., is a world-renowned leader and pioneer in integrative medicine, which incorporates body, mind, and spirit.
After a medical internship at Mt. Zion Hospital in San Francisco, he worked at the NIMH for a year and wrote The Natural Mind. As a Fellow of the Institute of Current World Affairs, Dr. Weil traveled to North and South America and Africa to research medication use in different cultures, medicinal plants, and alternative disease treatments. From 1971 until 1984, he studied medicinal and psychotropic plants at the Harvard Botanical Museum.
Dr. Weil is the founder and director of the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona. He also holds the Lovell-Jones Endowed Chair in Integrative Rheumatology and is a Clinical Professor of Medicine and Public Health. The Center is developing a comprehensive integrative medicine program. Through its fellowship, the Center currently trains doctors and nurse practitioners worldwide.
Dr. Weil is a well-known authority on healthy living, healthy aging, and the future of medicine and health care. Prevention magazine publishes Dr. Weil’s monthly piece. In addition, Dr. Weil is an international specialist in medicinal plants, alternative medicine, and medical education reform.
In this episode, Dr. Weil covers foods and habits that boost mental and physical health. Learn about inflammatory disorders, how to cure and avoid them, and the origin of most medical problems. This episode is essential.
Dr. Andrew Weil explains how to boost brain function, reduce inflammation, and live longer. Click here to watch the video.
In this video, we see Jamie Oliver keep it simple and let the ingredients shine. We spend a lot of time thinking about food and flavour but make no mistake, we truly appreciate learning from the experts.
This recipe features honey and as natural or raw honey is more readily available in-store and on-line, the flavour comes together easily.
I love Peace River honey from Canada. It’s a flavour I remember from childhood, and would be perfect in this recipe.
At this time of year, you can sub in maple syrup from your favorite Sugar Shack! Adjust the amount to your own tastebuds.
Enjoy Jamie Oliver’s simple and delicious recipe and why not share it with a friend? Click here to watch the video.
Every day we put our bodies in positions that create stress and tension in the neck region. As a result, the muscles in this area shorten and become tight over time, leading to poor posture, neck stiffness, and discomfort.
The following video will provide you with some simple stretches to help loosen these muscles, increase range of motion, and reduce pain. Click here to watch the video.
Host an elegant Mother’s Day with these simple sweet and savory high tea recipes from Cooking With Poppy featuring cream cheese sandwiches with sweet yellow peppers, cucumber sandwiches, turkey sandwiches, and crumpets. Click here to watch the video.
“One way to boost our willpower and focus is to manage our distractions instead of letting them manage us.”
– Daniel Goleman
Join Nat and Kat as they discuss how not to dismiss distractions entirely; instead, learn to embrace and manage them, so you can be well and live well. Click here to watch the video.
“Communication is a skill that you can learn. It’s like riding a bicycle or typing. If you’re willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of every part of your life.”
-Brian Tracy
What does it take to be a good communicator? Click here to join Nat and Kat on a heart-to-heart conversation around ways we can all grow and communicate more authentically each day.
Do you know that achieving 10,000 steps a day for health is highly promoted but often not achieved by most people? Well, there is no need to worry for those who find this a daunting task. A new study posted in September 2021 in JAMA Network Open suggests that logging even 7,000 steps a day may go a long way toward better health. The key is to get up and move. As we complete our daily activities, we gain steps, but we can do more. A simple way is to introduce little exercise snack bites into our daily routines. These snack bites encourage you to move more.
Weekly, the Fitness Powers team will be posting on Facebook and Instagram fun activities you can do to step things up in your life for “the health of it.” Join the following video to obtain your little exercise snack of the day. Click here to watch the video.
Try this elegant variation of breakfast pears made by Chef Robert Mills.
Click here to watch the video.
“I like to serve this dish warm in the morning in place of oatmeal. Soon I will be cooking these for you in your kitchen.”
-Chef Robert
Breakfast Pears
Servings: 2
Prepping time: 5 Min
Cooking time: 25 Min
Ingredients
4 Barlett or Bosc pears
1 cup rolled oats
3 tbsp raisins
1/4 cup chopped pecans
1/3 cup light brown sugar
1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
1/4 cup unsalted butter, melted, plus extra for brushing
Maple syrup and or whipped cream on top for plating
Directions
1. Preheat oven to 375°F
2. Toss the oats, brown sugar, pecans and the cinnamon to combine.
3. Stir in the melted butter until everything is roughly combined.
4. Stir in the raisins.
5. Cut the pears in half and scoop out their cores.
6. Lay the pears halves in a baking dish and brush their tops with melted butter.
7. Press some oat filling in the center of each pear.
8. Bake uncovered, for 25 minutes, until the pears are tender and the oat filling is lightly browned.
Serve warm, drizzle with maple syrup, and with whipped cream on the side if desired.
