Health & lifestyle

    Nicaraguan women in the 1990s faced high unemployment, exploitation and discrimination. But thanks to Vancity funding to a grassroots group in this central American nation, women gained job and business training and micro-loans. I wrote about this for Working Dollars, the newsletter for VanCity Savings Credit Union. Click on this Nicaraguan women link to read…

In the December 2003 issue of Canada’s Alive magazine, I introduced a new technique of applying balls of various sizes to pressure points. Using one’s weight against the balls goes deep into tissue, relaxes muscles, and helps to loosen tendons. It works! Click this link Have a ball (2) to read my feature.

“If a woman things her dazzling nail polish looks like dynamite, she’s not far from the truth: it contains a potentially harmful chemical used to make explosives. . .” That’s how my feature “Spiked!” begins in the April 2003 issue of Canada’s national Alive magazine. The article not only addresses the ingredients of most nail polishes, including toxic…