2008 Woodie Awards
Alternative therapies flood the market
Whether with fibre, vitamins, antioxidants or disease fighting herbs. Bread is vitamin-filled, eggs come with omega-3 and teas are enriched with almost anything. Natural and traditional therapies have found a permanent place in the market and are attracting increasing attention as people get more attuned to their bodies.
Energy might be the answer to exam anxiety
With over 200 varieties and practitioners all over the globe, Reiki therapy just might be the answer to midterm anxiety. With the premise of the body as an energy system, practitioners channel hefty amounts of Universal Life Force Energy into patients and manipulate energy fields to facilitate healing.
Sticking it to modern medicine
Advil not quite cutting it? Try turning to Chinese medicine for your aches and pains. After all, it has been around for longer than most of the modern medicinal treatments your doctor has to offer-over 2,000 years, to be exact. Acupuncture is classified as an alternative therapy in Canada and is increasingly being used as a legitimate, complementary medical treatment in hospitals across the country.
Spice up your life
Today, there's a pill to pop for every ailment. Yet with conglomerate, multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical powerhouses swarming the prescription drug industry and competing over the biggest and therefore best advertising campaigns, some of us may be longing for au naturel feel-good solutions.
Gotta drink 'em all
The question of what beer to drink is an eternal one. The many varying tastes make the task seem gargantuan. Below, lovingly selected by illustrious beer drinkers, is a compilation of the finest grocery-store varieties, with special attention paid to local, domestic and import beers.
Disgusting desserts you just have to try
Once, in our Western society, eating insects was a prerogative relegated to the nasty smelly kid who'd do anything to make a quick buck. On the same principle, with much larger prizes, reality shows such as Fear Factor came along and exploited the eternal reverence for the disgusting.
Wood is McGill's eco-naut
These days, with green culture on the rise, Wayne Wood's job is becoming increasingly more visible on campus. At the university for 16 years now, Wood currently acts as McGill's occupational health specialist and manager of McGill's Environmental Safety Office.
Get published in McGill's literary journal
As McGill's only nationally-distributed literary journal, Scrivener Creative Review will blow out 27 candles this year, commemorating a history of printed issues dating back to the 1980s. What distinguishes this shiny needle from the haystack of other McGill affiliated literary publications such as Steps, Montage and Stationaery is its ability to network nationwide and attract artists from all over the world for submissions.
