The StoneTree team spent a glorious Friday evening enjoying some delicious food and excellent gin. We though you might enjoy the recipes! Napa Cabbage Salad Ingredients: 1/2 cup slivered almonds 3 tablespoons vegetable oil 2 tablespoons rice vinegar 1 tablespoon soy sauce 1/2 teaspoon sugar 1 lb. napa cabbage chopped 2 scallions thinly sliced 1/4 cup… Continue reading →
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Vitamin B12 Deficiency: What You Should Know
Vitamin B12 is one of eight B vitamins in your body. (Yes, the numbering is strange. There used to be more labeled B vitamins, but scientists short-listed almost thirty of them down to eight.) Of all the vitamins in the B-complex, though, B12 is the most complicated and arguably the most important. B12 is involved… Continue reading →
June 3rd is National Health and Fitness Day!
Let’s make Canada the Fittest Nation on Earth! We write an annoying amount a lot about the many health benefits of exercise. It really is one of the most important things to do for our overall health, so when we became aware of the Canada’s National Health and Fitness Day we just had to share. The first… Continue reading →
My Experience with Bioidentical Hormone Replacement
I wrote about my experience with peri-menopausal symptoms in this tongue-in-cheek article that focused on the lifestyle changes that can very much help with peri- and post-menopausal symptoms. But what about when the important lifestyle changes aren’t helping, and the symptoms are really getting in the way of your life? I’m not much of a complainer and I… Continue reading →
World Hypertension Day
The international society of hypertension initiated World Hypertension Day in 2005 and has promoted it yearly ever since. Why? Hypertension–you might know it better as high blood pressure–is called the silent killer because people who have it often don’t know it. And it’s a big deal, because the risk of stroke is four times greater in… Continue reading →
Food Matters (And It Only Took 2000 Years!)
Nearly 2500 years ago, a Greek physician named Hippocrates was busy reinventing medicine. Hippocrates wrote some of the oldest known medical books, and thousands of new physicians are still sworn in each year based on variations of the oath that bears his name. He was the first to describe a number of diseases and conditions and was… Continue reading →
Do You Know These 6 Possible Causes of IBS?
Irritable Bowel Syndrome, or IBS, is a diagnosis of exclusion. That’s a fancy way of saying IBS is a bunch of symptoms that aren’t being caused by any known pathology. When everything else is ruled out for those symptoms, IBS is what you’re left with. In the case of IBS, those symptoms include: Stomach pain and cramping… Continue reading →
Unscreening: How Screens Affect Child Sleep
Like almost every mom, I’ve had the frustrating experience of trying to do a task or have a conversation with a “busy” toddler by my side. When my daughter was little, tablets and phones weren’t quite so readily available to distract her when I needed to get things done, but I can’t help but think that if they were, I… Continue reading →
Exercise Lowers Blood Sugar
Yet another study to show the value of exercise. Researchers discovered that patients who increased their daily step count by 2,000 steps saw decreases in both their blood sugar and insulin resistance levels. The decreases aren’t huge–only 0.4 points for blood sugar and 1 point for insulin resistance–but neither was the increase in steps. If you work it… Continue reading →
Free Meditation Night at StoneTree
The team at StoneTree is excited to welcome Lanee Brown for an evening of mindfulness and meditation. Mindfulness has left the fringes, and gained incredible traction in recent years. Research has shown that meditation can: Improve mental focus and increase short-term memory Reduce the risk of heart disease and lower blood pressure Improve sleep and… Continue reading →