Seasonal Strategies to Help You Beat the Blues

Having trouble staying awake? Feeling anxious and depressed? Is the lack of daylight getting you down? Perhaps you’re one of the 10 million people suffering from Seasonal Affective Disorder. What is Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)? Seasonal affective disorder (SAD),...

Nutrition for Runners

“I just felt like running.” – Forrest Gump Running has many benefits. It is an excellent way to exercise both your cardiovascular and musculoskeletal systems. It can be social if you do it with a friend. It can connect you with nature when you run through a forest or...

Fermented Foods for Health

The word “fermentation” is likely to wrinkle the nose of most who hear it. It brings to mind memories of that leftover casserole you forgot about in the back of the fridge for a month and had to don your best homemade on-the-fly HAZZMAT suit equivalent to dispose of....

Annanda Chaga Mushroom Update

Annanda Chaga Mushroom Tincture!   Available at the Big Carrot by November/December 2015! Our submission to Health Canada to register our Chaga Mushroom Tincture is underway after lengthy delays in trying to find an NPN Site certified facility to manufacture and...

Why Detox?

Why Detox? Detox in a bottle, detox in a juice kit, detox in your yoga class! It seems everywhere we turn this word is tossed at us. Behind all the hype is a process in the body that deals with toxins and gets rid of waste. Consider that a cross-Canada study by...

A Sweetener by Any Other Name…

Sugar is sugar, right? Well, not necessarily… There are many ways you can evaluate sweeteners and an ever-growing number of sweeteners to evaluate. Answering the question “Which one is best?” is increasingly complicated. We at The Big Carrot are glad you’re asking the...

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