Exploring ‘Water Cure’ | The Healing Waters of Ancient Greece
A short drive from downtown Athens, lies Lake Vouliagmeni, a naturally emerging fresh water lake with a long and storied history of known ‘water cure’. Water cure implies any use of water that stimulates the body’s innate healing mechanism. Healing through water, or hydrotherapy has been used by physicians since the dawn of time, yet [...]
Chronicling Prevention: A Patient’s Personal Journey Towards Optimal Health
Barrie ON: Fantastic videoblog of a patient’s personal journey towards improved health and disease prevention at a Healthscore clinic in Barrie (Dr. Rallis). Journey begins with Smoking Cessation, Healthscore examination, personal challenges etc -an excellent personal account! Reference: www.youtube.com/user/thetaoofcarole
Prevention of Type II Diabetes
Type II diabetes is an epidemic that kills as many people globally as cigarette smoking (generally acknowledged as the leading cause of preventable death). Type II diabetes is a chronic lifestyle disease. This implies that it is both modifiable (meaning you can reverse it or affect its outcome) and preventable. The strategy for both is lifestyle with weight being a [...]
Ask the Wellness Doctor | Cancer Prevention: What Can I Do?
Dear Wellness Doctor, I would like to thank you for the excellent public health lecture you gave last month. It was truly life changing! During the seminar, you spoke at length about disease prevention and the importance of lifestyle. I couldn’t help but think about the strong prevalence of cancer in my family (parents, grandparents, aunts [...]
What is a ’superfood’?
Dear Wellness Doctor, During a recent trip to the health food store, one of the sales associates began referencing ‘superfoods’. I asked her what that meant and she began talking about goji berries and other strange sounding foods. I left feeling more confused than informed. Help me out, what is a Superfood? Signed, Superconfused Dear Superconfused, Confused? So was I, [...]
Are you Vitamin D deficient? The answer may shock you…
Vitamin D deficiency is now considered a pandemic. That means that it probably relates to you or someone you know. If you live in a northern climate -then the likelihood of you suffering from defciency is dramitically increased. Consider the following symptoms associated with Vitamin D deficiency; these include: bone and muscle pain, depression, dramatic [...]
Exploring ‘Water Cure’ | The Healing Waters of Ancient Greece
17 August 2010
A short drive from downtown Athens, lies Lake Vouliagmeni, a naturally emerging fresh water lake with a long and storied history of known ‘water cure’. Water cure implies any use of water that stimulates the body’s innate healing mechanism. Healing through water, or hydrotherapy has been used by physicians since the dawn of time, yet [...]
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Chronicling Prevention: A Patient’s Personal Journey Towards Optimal Health
15 July 2010
Barrie ON: Fantastic videoblog of a patient’s personal journey towards improved health and disease prevention at a Healthscore clinic in Barrie (Dr. Rallis). Journey begins with Smoking Cessation, Healthscore examination, personal challenges etc -an excellent personal account! Reference: www.youtube.com/user/thetaoofcarole
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Prevention of Type II Diabetes
26 June 2010
Type II diabetes is an epidemic that kills as many people globally as cigarette smoking (generally acknowledged as the leading cause of preventable death). Type II diabetes is a chronic lifestyle disease. This implies that it is both modifiable (meaning you can reverse it or affect its outcome) and preventable. The strategy for both is lifestyle with weight being a [...]
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Ask the Wellness Doctor | Cancer Prevention: What Can I Do?
13 May 2010
Dear Wellness Doctor, I would like to thank you for the excellent public health lecture you gave last month. It was truly life changing! During the seminar, you spoke at length about disease prevention and the importance of lifestyle. I couldn’t help but think about the strong prevalence of cancer in my family (parents, grandparents, aunts [...]
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What is a ’superfood’?
14 March 2010
Dear Wellness Doctor, During a recent trip to the health food store, one of the sales associates began referencing ‘superfoods’. I asked her what that meant and she began talking about goji berries and other strange sounding foods. I left feeling more confused than informed. Help me out, what is a Superfood? Signed, Superconfused Dear Superconfused, Confused? So was I, [...]
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Are you Vitamin D deficient? The answer may shock you…
12 February 2010
Vitamin D deficiency is now considered a pandemic. That means that it probably relates to you or someone you know. If you live in a northern climate -then the likelihood of you suffering from defciency is dramitically increased. Consider the following symptoms associated with Vitamin D deficiency; these include: bone and muscle pain, depression, dramatic [...]
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Wall Street Journal, “Alternative Medicine ‘is’ Mainstream”
20 January 2010
“Many people tend to think of breakthroughs in medicine as a new drug, laser or high-tech surgical procedure. They often have a hard time believing that the simple choices that we make in our lifestyle — what we eat, how we respond to stress, whether or not we smoke cigarettes, how much exercise we get, [...]
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Non-Surgical Spinal Decompression now offered in Barrie!
16 January 2010
Dr. Rallis Commentary: Spinal Decompression is an excellent treatment option for stubborn back pain. We implemented this technology into our Barrie office in August 2008 and the results have been nothing short of miraculous. For chronic back pain due to degenerative arthritis, disc herniations, spinal stenosis etc., this is a treatment option worth [...]
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Corporate Wellness Update | Certified Management Accounting (CMA) article, “The Power of Prevention”
16 January 2010
Dr. Rallis featured article with Mr. Patrick Robbenhaar (CMA, GM (Sarjeant Company)) outlining the benefits, rationale, details of corporate wellness initiative.
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Sarjeant Company Healthscore Interview
16 January 2010
The Sarjeant Company’s Wellness Program was one of the first one’s that I implemented -and to date -one of the most successful! I’ve had the luxury of being Sarjeant Company’s Wellness doctor for close to 6 years now! Employee Healthscore examinations are implemented from right from the pre-employment phase to the executive class. When I [...]
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