Megtelpner

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You Wash With What?
I feel pretty confident in saying that if you read me regularly, you are already beginning (if you haven’t done so already) to question everything you eat, drink, bathe with, clean with and breathe. My delightful and talented web designer Marie (results of her amazing effort will soon be revealed), sent me this video that [...]
Namaste. Be Mindful When You Say It.
Yeah. I took that photo. It was growing out of a wall of rocks in the Dominica rainforest. Once you are done admiring my photography skills, I want you to look at it again. Look at it and see it without labelling anything about it. Just look. And breathe. And look. And breathe. And breathe. [...]
H1N1: To Vaccinate Or Not To Vaccinate
We don’t just catch a disease. We are full players in the game. If we have weakened our immune function in any number of ways, we are more likely to get sick. A fact is a fact. Similarly, if we keep ourselves strong and fighting, we can french kiss the world over and not get [...]
Get Out Those Jazz Hands. It’s Friday!
When I do my intakes with clients, as hard as it may be for them to recall how old they were when they took their first course of antibiotics, or whether they had their tonsils out before or after they developed some horrendous auto-immune inflammatory disease, the toughest question to answer is always “What are [...]
All Things Pumpkin… Medley
For the most part, my videos give me an extreme feeling of secondary embarrassment (the embarrassment you feel when you see someone fall down the stairs) for myself (like watching myself fall down the stairs). The one that takes the cake on this however is last year’s All Things Pumpkin where my dad and I [...]
The Roof is On Fiya Like Hot Tomato Salsa
Not too long ago, I wrote about my challenge with returning produce in an article called Rotten Grapes and Ripped Jeans. I have never been one to return produce. When rotten produce brings an infestation of fruit flies into my home I am just going to have to say something.
A couple of weeks ago, I [...]
Apple A Day: The Sequel
For the second year now, I decided to take to the streets with my flowered bicycle and baskets full of apples. Last year I hit up the intersection of Bay and King, in the heart of Toronto’s financial district. This year, we went for a slightly different demographic, venturing a little further North to Yonge [...]
Save The Vag! (Discounts and Diva Cup Winners)
If you missed the series on Tampon Talk, check out the articles:
Part 1, Tampax Tampons: Toxic Sticks of Death
Part 2, Tampax Tampons: Toxic Sticks of Death
Part 3, Tampax Tampons: Toxic Sticks of Death
As part of my desire to share this info with you, I gave a little holla over to the Diva Cup gals [...]
Part 3, Tampax Tampons: Toxic Sticks of Death
Part 1, Tampax Tampons: Toxic Sticks of Death
Part 2, Tampax Tampons: Toxic Sticks of Death

By now you are well versed in the dangers of the conventional bleached out super absorbent ‘pon. I make it a rule to offer as much info as I can. So I thought I’d wrap up this series with info [...]
Part 1, Tampax Tampons: Toxic Sticks of Death
I can’t help but wonder if Mr. Cutlett, or someone like him, was the genius that came up with the tampon. It’s all pretty and white and fluffy. It comes in a little flowery, pink, plastic package and essentially removes us ladies from any contact with our body and the filthyness that is The Period. [...]
All This Talk of Eggs
All this talk of eggs and ovaries and what not had me hungry for some dense nutrition.
Contrary to popular belief I am not vegan. Perhaps not even vegetarian. Who’s to say and who wants to be labelled and tucked away in a box anyway. I eat what I feel my body needs and 95% of [...]
All The World’s A Pharmacy
Once upon a time, I thought all the answers to my health problems were in my local pharmacy.  There were people in white lab coats who could tell me what my latest medication would do for me, and would then explain all the things the medication could possibly do to me (Sweet sweet side effects; [...]
Smile For Health and Bicycles
For those of you doing the 3 Day Green Smoothie Cleanse- hippity hoppity you are likely 2-3 smoothies away from completion. If you joined this challenge following the 5 Days Vegan- you are on day 8 of pure dedication to your health. So… how does it feel? Mighty mighty I imagine.
As I have decided to [...]
Eat Less and Live Longer? Huh?
I would get a TV just so I could smile adoringly at Gillian McKeith as she lays out all the nasty-ass food that the unhealthy, stinky pooper people on her show consume in a week. It is usually obscene and for someone in my line of work, car-crash like addictive to watch. I am forever [...]
Lower Cholesterol with Plants and Porridge
On September 15th, we will be kicking off our 5 Days Vegan group challenge. There are already 42 awesomely enthusiastic people registered from four countries and nearly 22 cities. That is pretty cool. For the next week, I will be sharing some of the main benefits of transitioning to a more plant-based diet.

If you have [...]
The Chicken or The Egg?
A couple of years ago, I wrote an article for the National Post (print edition) as part of a series on shopping neurosis. My contribution obviously had to do with food shopping and how the more health conscious I became, the more stores and markets were added to my list of [...]
Raw In The Woods With David Wolfe
I have heard it said that raw foodists tend towards the frail, spacey side. Not so my friends. Not so. It is possible that I have never met anyone who radiates health, vigor, energy and aliveness quite like David Wolfe.
I spent this past weekend in Haliburton playing in the woods with David Wolfe, a world [...]
Meghan’s Vaccine For Health
Why are we blaming the pigs? Wait, are we blaming pigs? It doesn’t matter either way. What does matter though is all this talk about swine flu vaccines and who should be first in line to receive one. They are putting those most vulnerable on the VIP side of the velvet rope, those with the [...]
The Good Life Is Here Now
I am off in the woods this long weekend at my cottage; a well needed escape from the chaos that is my home. In honour of the long weekend, I am leaving it up to others to entertain you.
A video to inspire a laid back summer state of mind.

On this long weekend, as the summer [...]
Too Much Rum Cream? The Holistic Hangover Cure
In honour of one of Toronto’s most vibrant festivals of the year, Scotiabank Caribana Festival, this week is dedicated to the flavours and spirit of  the part of the world I love best, the Caribbean.

At sixteen, on holidays in Jamaica, my cousins and I would hitch a ride from the villa our family had rented [...]
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