An apple is an apple, right?  Wrong!  Many people don’t realize how much commercial agriculture has changed over the years.  New pesticides and fertilizers have been introduced, and ground never lies fallow so soil becomes depleted of nutrients.  I’m not even going to touch on the GMO controversy here.  Sure, the government has outlined “safe”…

Chances are, you know someone with dementia.  It is devastating to watch a loved one gradually lose their mental capacity as memory fails, independence is lost, and personality changes.  Currently more than half a million Canadians suffer from Alzheimer’s-type dementia, and as the population ages this number is expected to over the next thirty years.  A…