Have you visited our bookshelves recently?

You’d be forgiven for thinking you’re in one of the big box book retailers, until you actually read the titles!  Yes, this is Finlandia’s health book section and we are proud of the number and quality of topics and titles we have available for you.  From wellness goal-setting to disease management, healthy nutrition info to how to detox, we can provide the knowledge on virtually every aspect of finding wellness and holding onto it. Here are a few of our most popular titles:

Prescription for Nutritional Healing: A Practical A-to-Z Reference to Drug-Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs & Food Supplements, Phyllis. A. Balch

The perennially popular reference for those who want to heal themselves naturally, or to avail themselves of natural modalities to support prescription medications.

The new fifth edition incorporates the most recent information on a variety of complementary healing and preventive therapies and unveils new scientific information on vitamins, supplements, and herbs.

The Swiss Secret to Optimal Health, Thomas Rau

Dr. Rau, a world-renowned physician shares the secrets that draw international clients to the Paracelsus Clinic in the Swiss Alps. There, Dr. Thomas Rau’s unique diet rejuvenates his clients, while preventing and curing illness. Often referred to as “the Mozart of medicine,” Dr. Rau is the world’s foremost practitioner of biological medicine.  In this book, he reveals his unique Swiss health plan— a proven program based on the latest medical research that will:

• Purify the body • Regulate pH balance • Strengthen the immune system • Encourage healing • Prevent illness • Help readers feel young and energetic—in body and mind.

Proven effective time and again, Dr. Rau’s program can reduce—and often eliminate— a lifetime of toxins, alleviate chronic conditions like allergies, arthritis, and diabetes, and promote weight loss and overall well-being. With Dr. Rau’s exclusive program now in book form, everyone can begin to enjoy the numerous health benefits of the “Swiss Secret.”

Why Do I Still Have Thyroid Symptoms? When My Lab Tests Are Normal: A Revolutionary Breakthrough In Understanding Hashimoto’s Disease and Hypothyroidism,  Datis Kharrazian

With thyroid disease on the rise and conventional medicine relying solely on the numbers revealed by standard blood tests, is it any wonder this book remains on our bestseller list?

Datis Kharrazian has excelled in putting together complex data from a variety of disciplines into a coherent protocol that addresses thyroid disorders.  This book is a must for those who are frustrated with the lack of understanding/action about thyroid issues and provides answers not just for hypothyroidism, but all autoimmune disorders.

The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health,  T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D.

Quite simply, an amazing book that provides the strongest evidence yet of the power of a plant-based diet to prevent disease.

The study examines more than 350 variables of health and nutrition with surveys from 6,500 adults in more than 2,500 counties across China and Taiwan, and conclusively demonstrates the link between nutrition and heart disease, diabetes, and cancer. While revealing that proper nutrition can have a dramatic effect on reducing and reversing these ailments as well as curbing obesity, Dr. Campbell calls into question the practices of many of the current dietary programs, such as high protein animal-based diets, that are widely popular in the West.

The politics of nutrition and the impact of special interest groups in the creation and dissemination of public information are also discussed.

We hope you come and visit our health library very soon!

Detoxing for improved wellness in 2012

If you are feeling lethargic and are having difficulty accomplishing physical and mental tasks, it could be that you need to detoxify your body.

The process of detoxification is not new. For thousands of years, purifying the body has been a part of humankind’s rituals for health and well-being. It was used in ancient times as a means of connecting with the divine, and today it is primarily used as a means to stay in tip-top health.

Detoxing enables us to clean out the collected waste matter of our everyday lives—environmental pollutants such as pesticides and insecticides, and residue from all the drugs and unhealthy foods that are trapped in our bodies.

There are many ways to detoxify the body, including bowel/liver cleanses (which draw out and eliminate toxins throughout the body), ionic footbaths (in which negative ions attach themselves to harmful impurities in the body for enhanced elimination through the pores of the feet*) and the Infrared sauna, which draws toxins out through the skin. Our MRS-2000 electro magnetic pulse field therapy can help relieve the stress and exhaustion experienced as a result of chronic conditions such as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), general fatigue and fibromyalgia.

Detoxing supplement kits, such as Wild Rose D-Tox, also help the body to eliminate harmful substances that bog us down and prevent us from feeling as well as we were designed to feel.

If you have been sick, are not feeling up to par, or simply want to do something good for your body, you might consider our complete Detox Program (MRS-2000, Infrared sauna, and IonCleanse® footbath) which will allow you to feel your very best, with increased physical and mental energy. Our highly knowledgeable staff are also available to provide nutritional counselling that will help keep your body as free of toxins as possible.

* You may have read that ionic footbaths are nothing more than hocus-pocus, and that the colour-change in the water is not due to the removal of toxins but to corrosion in the water. This reasoning is often provided to make ionic footbaths appear a scam. We’d like to set the record straight. It is indeed true that the water changes colour during the cleansing process and that particulate matter may appear in the water. However, the release of toxins is not the only reason for accumulation of debris or water becoming darker. Electrolysis is an important part of the ion detoxification process. Corrosion that takes place during electrolysis changes the colour of water and the corrosion of metals at the time of electrolysis also causes changes due to the release of gases.

For further information, or to book our complete Detox Program, please call the store at 604.733.5323.

Our New Year holiday hours are as follows:

Saturday, Dec. 31st: 9 am to 3 pm

Sunday, Jan. 1st: Closed

Monday, Jan. 2nd: Noon to 5 pm (Pharmacy will be open).

Please stay safe during the festivities, appoint a designated driver or catch a bus or cab. Wishing you all a glorious New Year!

HUGE Boxing Day sale!

As a way of thanking all our wonderful customers at year’s end, we’re hosting a Boxing Day sale with 15% off everything in the store while quantities last! (Does not include prescriptions or special orders.)  That means huge savings on books, health aids, supplements, beauty products, herbals, pet products and so much more.* So gather your family and friends—or just think about them—and come and join us for this special savings event!

*Additional discounts cannot be used on sale-priced items, and loyalty points will not be awarded.

New mammogram guidelines and Breast Thermography

New breast screening guidelines provided by The Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care include the suggestion that women between ages  40 and 49 forego screening mammograms and women between 50 and 74 undergo fewer routine screening mammograms. While women who remain concerned about the safety and/or efficacy of routine screening mammograms might view these recommendations as positive, most women still want to know if changes are occurring in their breast tissue.

Breast Thermography (BT) allows a woman to know if possibly precancerous changes are taking place in her breasts, up to eight years earlier than with screening mammography.

BT is a medical technique used as a first line screening procedure to assess breast health.  A highly advanced digital infrared camera and computer are used to measure temperatures radiating from breast tissues and adjacent areas. Temperatures varying from the norm indicate the possible presence of cancerous tumours or precancerous activity in the tissues. BT can reveal a problem long before any other technique, giving you more time to take action for a more positive outcome. It is a proactive way of managing the health of your breasts.

BT offers earlier detection, safer screening with no radiation, and no uncomfortable compression.

If you are interested in this procedure, please call us at 604 733-5323 (toll free: 1 800 363-4372). A caring Certified Thermography Technician will guide you through the process, in complete privacy.

Finally, here’s what Dr. Christiane Northrup, author of Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom (2010) has to say about Breast Thermography:

” Thermography is the missing link that holds the key to true prevention of breast cancer.”

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