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Joy McCarthy

Joy McCarthy is the Founder of Joyous Health, a Certified Holistic Nutritionist and best-selling author. A trusted nutrition expert, Joy has been featured in hundreds of publications both online and in print; and is a regular health expert on TV. Through her innate drive to inspire others, Joy has created numerous online programs and eBooks under JOYOUS U and is a faculty member at the Institute of Holistic Nutrition. Joy lives in Toronto with her husband Walker and their daughter Vienna.
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Hemp Seed Maple Butter Recipe

While coaching one of my clients a few weeks ago she asked me where she could buy hempseed butter. Since I had not seen my favourite brand in a while (and later discovered it’s been discontinued – boo hoo!), I watched a video and realized just HOW easy it

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5 Ways to Spring Clean Your Mind

I’ve just finished two months of cleansing with a really powerful herbal tea blend, along with my Joyous 10-day detox which I did longer than 10-days. I fee

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What Your Poo Says About You!

In 2010, I wrote a post that quickly became one of my most popular: What the Colour of your Poo Says About You. Due to the popularity of this post and also

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Orange Chocolate Avocado Pudding

I love chocolate and I love it even more when it’s infused with orange, what about you?But I don’t like how typical store-bought orange-infused chocolate is

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Holistic Sex: Birth Control & Condoms

To recap the side effects of using the pill are; Infertility, Hormonal Imbalance, Lost Interest in Sex, they can alter your natural choice in a mate, Nutrient Depletion, Dry Vagina and Yeast Infections. Yikes that doesnÂ’t sound like fun does it? IÂ’m go

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The Importance of B12: Are you deficient?

Before vitamin B12 even had a name scientists knew there was a nutrient in food that joined with something in the stomach to help it’s absorption. They named these two substances intrinsic factor (created in our stomach) and extrinsic factor (from food),

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Best Healthy Restaurants in Vancouver

Due to the popularity of my post on the best healthy eateries in Toronto and many people on facebook and twitter asking me for my advice on the West Coast, I decided to ask Holistic Nutritionist Annaliisa Kapp for her take on Vancouver. She gladly shared

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6 Human Needs to Make Love Last Forever

Note from Joy: Happy Valentine’s Day Everyone! I have a very special guest blogger today, my dad and he knows a thing or two about love and relationships. A

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3 Treats For Your Sweets!

One of the Joyous 10-day Detoxers posted this photo on our facebook detox community page and I had to share it because she made all three of these recipes f

Family

The Truth About The Birth Control Pill

It wasn’t until I stopped taking the pill that I began my true healing journey of getting my body back and on track and addressing the root cause.