get you and your lawn in tip-top shape
Tips to Make Gardening a Serious Workout
Working in your garden or yard can be more exercise than you realize.Gardening is a popular hobby that offers many rewards. It helps reduce stress and can give you a sense of accomplishment as you savor the fruits of your labor. Whether you simply enjoy looking at a colorful bed of flowers or love sinking your teeth in...
Aug 23, 2024
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Art of Gardening
Watch: Guerilla Landscaping
Creating a new landscape or replacing an old one can be a little daunting for some people...especially new gardeners! Shawn Ulmer from Art Knapp's in Kamloops, B.C. has a few quick and easy combinations for you to try to make the whole process a little easier!--
Aug 23, 2024
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Choosing Wellness Podcast
Season 2, Episode 5
Listen: Going Deep Pelvic Health and Adaptogens
Choosing Wellness dives deep into the essence of wellness and how it intertwines with nature, mindfulness, and self-healing. Powered by Pattison Media, in this episode - a buff muff, functional mushrooms, arthritis is not just an older person's disease and how to lower anxiety.Tired of leaks, you can't cough, sneeze, o...
Aug 06, 2024
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SEASON 2, EPISODE 4
Listen: Enhanding the Human Experience
Choosing Wellness dives deep into the essence of wellness and how it intertwines with nature, mindfulness, and self-healing. Powered by Pattison Media, in this episode - why we crave sugar and how to manage it, what are nootropics, a look at biohacking and living life a little bit better in your liminal space.To hear m...
Jul 08, 2024
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Season 2, Episode 3
Listen: Practice Mindful Living
Choosing Wellness dives deep into the essence of wellness and how it intertwines with nature, mindfulness, and self-healing. Powered by Pattison Media, in this episode a look at replacing your afternoon latte with a healthy alternative sans caffeine, how connecting with nature can potentially improve health, and the co...
Jun 10, 2024
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Season 2, episode 2
Listen: Eating for longevity
Choosing Wellness dives deep into the essence of wellness and how it intertwines with nature, mindfulness, and self-healing. Powered by Pattison Media, this episode gives us a taste of eating for longevity where we explore the dietary habits of the world's longest-living people and explore the trending debate over plan...
May 10, 2024
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Health and Wellness
Yaaawwwn
7 Symptoms of Common Sleep Disorders
Wake up tired? Can't fall asleep at night? Here are signs that you may have a sleep disorder.Getting enough quality sleep each night does more than just help you get through the day feeling well-rested and energized. Sleep is a critical element of good health, and not getting enough of it or not sleeping well can jeopa...
Aug 23, 2024
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Dental care
This Daily Routine Improves Your Health More Than You Know
Here's why brushing and flossing are good for your whole body.Most people start and end their day with a simple routine. This includes brushing their teeth and flossing. While you might have grown up being told that these simple tasks are important to keep your teeth healthy and cavity-free, what you may not have reali...
Aug 21, 2024
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Diagnosing PAD
What It Means If Your Legs Hurt When You Walk
Leg pain during activity may be a sign of a narrowing in your arteries.Do your legs hurt when you walk but then feel okay once you are sitting down? Have you felt numbness or weakness in your legs or feet? Do you notice color changes on the skin of your legs or have sores that heal slowly? All of these symptoms may be ...
Aug 19, 2024
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Hot, hot, hot
10 Tips to Stay Hydrated When It's Hot
As temperatures soar, your body needs more water. Here's how to drink enough each day.Water is one of the most essential components of our bodies, helping to regulate body temperature, lubricate joints, transport nutrients and flush out waste. We constantly lose water due to everyday bodily functions like urinating and...
Aug 12, 2024
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Lifestyle
get you and your lawn in tip-top shape
Tips to Make Gardening a Serious Workout
Working in your garden or yard can be more exercise than you realize.Gardening is a popular hobby that offers many rewards. It helps reduce stress and can give you a sense of accomplishment as you savor the fruits of your labor. Whether you simply enjoy looking at a colorful bed of flowers or love sinking your teeth in...
Aug 23, 2024
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Episode 19: Reconcile as we heal
Watch: 1000 Ways to Heal
Through lived experiences, Ryan Deneault shares his unique story of being a functioning addict for 36+ years and his attempts to fit into society for nearly five decades, to help others find their healing path, teach about Canada's history and Truth and Reconciliation and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of...
Aug 21, 2024
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Back to School
Do This Now to Get Ready for a New School Year
Here are 5 things you can do so everyone is more prepared when the first day of school arrives.The summer may not be winding to a close quite yet, but if you have school-aged children, you're probably well aware that a new school year is looming on the horizon. Making a few changes to your routine now and getting every...
Aug 19, 2024
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Nutrition and Mental Health
This Is Your Brain on Junk Food
Here are some effects ultra-processed foods may have on cravings, learning and mental health.It probably comes as no surprise that diets high in ultra-processed foods or "junk" foods aren't great for your body. These foods, often filled with a lot of calories, fat, carbs, sugar and sodium but with limited nut...
Aug 14, 2024
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Meditation
Recipes and Nutrition
Savoury Steak
Grilled Steak with Loaded Hasselback Potatoes and Cowboy Butter
You'll want to put this easy-to-make, flavorful compound Cowboy Butter on everything.Prep Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 70 mins Serves: 6Ingredients4 to 6 steaksHasselback Potatoes6 medium russet potatoes1/2cup unsalted butter2 tsp garlic, minced1/2 tsp paprika2 tbsp parsley, choppedSalt and pepper to taste12 oz cheese slic...
Aug 21, 2024
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Gut Health
What to Include In a Gut-Healthy Meal Plan
Looking to improve the health of your gut microbiome? Eat more of these foods.The health of your gut does more than just influence how your digestive tract works. A healthy gut may decrease inflammation and help ward off chronic health conditions and symptoms of aging. In contrast, an unhealthy gut may increase your ri...
Aug 14, 2024
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Refreshing
Watermelon Slush
This watermelon slush recipe will not only quench your thirst, but it's also Instagram-worthy! Top it off with boba pearls for extra texture! Try this fun recipe today for your summer BBQ today.Prep Time: 10 mins Serves: 6Ingredients1 large watermelon2 small watermelons, for servingDirectionsUsing a large sharp knife, ...
Aug 12, 2024
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Nutritional Benefits
Is It Okay to Pick Your Own Mushrooms?
Foraging for mushrooms may not be the best way to reap mushrooms' nutritional benefits.Mushrooms are some of the most interesting native foods on our planet. Although often thought of as a vegetable, mushrooms technically are not plants. Rather they are fungi. But these fungi have some amazing health benefits. They're ...
Aug 10, 2024
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Gardening
Art of Gardening
Watch: Guerilla Landscaping
Creating a new landscape or replacing an old one can be a little daunting for some people...especially new gardeners! Shawn Ulmer from Art Knapp's in Kamloops, B.C. has a few quick and easy combinations for you to try to make the whole process a little easier!--
Aug 23, 2024
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Art of Gardening
Watch: Echinacea...Bright, Beautiful and Beneficial
Maury Hik from Art Knapp's finds himself on one of the many garden paths in the nursery where he takes time to talk about one of his favourite perennials...the Coneflower and why they're so great!--
Aug 19, 2024
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Art of Gardening
Watch: Beautiful Hibiscus
The hot, intense heat of summer gives cause for worry about some of our plants. But Ivy Hik from Art Knapp's in Kamloops. B.C. takes time to talk about one particular plant that simply gorges on all that summer sunshine and heat!--
Aug 11, 2024
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Art of Gardening
Watch: Talking About Air Plants
It's the middle of summer and all the plants have been planted in the garden and the pots have been placed on the patio...so what else is there to do? Ivy Hik from Art Knapp's in Kamloops, B.C. has a fantastic suggestion and it involves air plants!--
Aug 10, 2024
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