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Go to Mel Dupres with a health problem and she’ll likely treat it in the way you least expected. For 18 years she’s helped clients connect the dots to good health; the 43-year-old offers counselling and natural therapies in place of Band-Aid pills an...

Things were finally looking up for Conroy Smith. After three years of unemployment, he’d found a job and was enjoying a new life in Nottinghamshire, England. Then he was hit with a huge blow — a rare and terminal cancer, renal medullary carcinoma. “...

What is in a number? One of the first questions we ask our clients when they walk into Alchemy is “What do you hope to achieve over the next few weeks and months?” So many clients see weight loss as the ultimate goal. Although weight loss may be impo...

Julee Smith is considered a hero, of sorts, at Westgate Correctional Facility. About 15 per cent of the inmates suffer from asthma; the nurse recently took a course to better help them out. “In nursing school there was only a chapter or two on asthma...

Martina Capuano’s barre doesn’t require experience and there’s no fancy footwork involved. What she offers is an eight-class challenge: do your bit to lift and tone and you are guaranteed a noticeable change in shape. “Barre is a fusion of yoga, Pila...

Barbara Darrell thought her life was at an end a few years ago. Doctors had diagnosed stage four COPD. The former smoker’s lungs were so bad she spent her days in bed, hooked up to an oxygen machine, unable to work or care for herself. Then she conne...

Cheryl Staurulakis is leading a cause to get residents protected against the human papilloma virus, better known as HPV. The 53-year-old was outraged after watching a documentary about the virus, and how easily it could be prevented. “If there was a ...

No one was surprised when Andrea Beazley announced she had quit her job to start her own business. She had worked in fashion for years but all she seemed to talk about was nutrition. Good Health Girl seemed a perfect fit. “People saw the passion I ha...

Ernest “Shuby” DeGrilla is out on the road rain or shine, when most of us are asleep. For the past 15 years he’s been behind the wheel of the Project Action bus. It’s not unusual for the 76-year-old to be up, driving seniors and the physically challe...

It was unusual to see women lifting weights in gyms in the early 90s. Kathi DeCouto didn’t let that stop her. “I was living in the US and a guy I was dating said, ‘Let’s go to the gym’. We got there and he pointed me straight to the [area] where wom...