When life gives you lemons....Michelle Schoffro Cook profile

Michelle Schoffro Cook doesn’t look like a woman who has danced with death. Where, one wonders, is the consumptive, Camille-like pallor, the dark circles? Even a whiff of quietly heroic martyrdom would do. If such a struggle exists, the Ottawa-based author and doctor of natural medicine has cleverly disguised it under a cheerful mop of ringlets, twinkling eyes and one of those complicated, layered outfits that requires the wearer to adopt...

Posted in Alternative on 01/06/2009 - 0 Comments

Treating SAD...naturally

It creeps up on you like salt stains on your pant legs -- short winter days coupled with depression.

Affecting two-thirds of Canadians, and three to four times more women than men, seasonal affective disorder (SAD) is triggered by short daylight hours and a lack of sun exposure and can leave sufferers in a serious slump.

But according to Jonathan Prousky, associate professor of clinical nutrition at the Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine and author of Naturopathic Nutrition (CCNM Press, 2006), SAD doesn't have to...

Posted in Alternative on 12/16/2008 - 0 Comments