Monthly Archives: October 2009

Quality of Berries in Juice

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Bremner's blueberry, bluepom and cherry juices

Bremner's blueberry, bluepom and cherry juices

On Saturday I went to the Westcoast Women’s Show in Abbotsford. Bremner’s juice was in the food aisle and we sampled a few of their juices. Yum! They use blueberries from Delta to make their blueberry juice and cranberries from Fort Langley to make their cranberry juice. I like that the fruit is local. The fellow pouring the juice said that some juice companies use juice-grade berries that are not suitable for selling (bruised, not ripe, overly-ripe), whereas Bremner’s uses the highest quality berries. He also mentioned a couple of anecdotes about people whose health conditions had improved by drinking a glass of their juice daily. The health value of whatever you drink or eat will depend on the quality of ingredients and the life energy of the food. My favourite was the blueberry pomegranate juice and my daughter’s favourite was the blackberry juice. Bremner’s juice is available at Save-On-Foods, London Drugs, Choices and IGA.

Healing a stiff neck

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Neck pain

Neck pain

Somehow I injured my neck on Saturday. I woke up Sunday morning and found it extremely painful to hold up my head. Every jerk of my standard transmission car was painful. It hurt whenever I wasn’t holding my neck with my hands.  I was almost tempted to ask someone to get me one of those soft neck braces that doctors used to recommend.  I even tried ibuprofen to get to sleep even though I dislike pills, but it only helped a little bit.  After trying EFT, BSFF and time without any relief, I started making calls to find help. On Tuesday I had a massage and my first ever chiropractor appointment. I think the magic combination was a treatment by my chiropractor James Rice followed by a treatment by my Reiki energy healer Virginia Smith and then sleeping with one of my subtle energy disks under my neck.  I had substantially less pain and was able to move my neck enough to look people in the eyes.  After several days and treatments I am able to move my neck (almost) normally again and I don’t have any pain, only discomfort.  The best explanation for the cause of the neck injury came from my chiropractor’s receptionist – I must have hurt it when I pushed a school bus full of screaming children out of the way of danger :)

Thank you also to my massage therapist Cindy at Langley’s Spa Utopia for the wonderful relaxing and pain-reducing massage.

Wednesday is Date Night at Milestone’s

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milestonesI went on a “date” last night with my husband. We decided to go to Milestone’s Restaurant in Langley and were pleasantly surprised to see they had a promotion on (see blog title). For $50 we shared a healthier appetizer (fresh salsa, tapenade, humous), I had a healthy salmon, rice & asparagus dinner, and we finished off by sharing an unhealthy but yummy chocolate cookie with vanilla icecream. I wish they would offer whole wheat and/or rye as options for the breads instead of only white bread and deep-fried chips. A healthy option for dessert would be nice too, but we probably would have chosen the warm cookie anyway. The atmosphere and service were just what we were looking for. Thumbs up!