Friday, March 22, 2019

Expo Manger Santé et Vivre Vert 2019: Aqua Health


Aqua Health Products

With over 350+ exhibitors who participated at the Expo Manger Santé et Vivre Vert 2019 this year, all displaying the best they had to offer, it required a either a special art to attract visitors' attention to their particular products, or the excellence of the products they were offering. The Aqua Health Products kiosk attracted me from the starts. Though the Expo is to a large part about a healthy food, and many people coming to the show are looking forward to the free tasting of many delicacies offered at the show, one tends to forget that water is an indispensable component of our food and nourishment, which keeps are alive and vibrant. It is therefore extremely important not to only concentrate on what type of food you eat, the healthy food, but most importantly on what type of water you drink, making sure to have an everyday access to the most healthy water supply. 



In our modern society, with the polluted air, lands, surface water, and even the ground water, it is important to assure an access to the cleanest water possible. In a sense, we can speak not only about healthy, high quality gourmet food, but also about healthy high quality, superbly tasting gourmet water. And the tool for producing just such a gourmet water were presented at the Expo by the Aqua Health Products kiosk.One of the solutions to turn an ordinary drinking water into a high quality drinking water presented was a high quality Berkey carbon filter water system. It is a free drip, independently standing system with a replaceable, extremely long lasting filter: depending to your water quality the same filter can be used for up to 10 years. The filter has excellent filtration characteristics, verified by an independent lab, and removes more than 90 % of all the impurities including bacterial, viral, chemical, pharmaceutical, and agricultural. It is made of high quality stainless steel that will last a lifetime or even longer.



For those wishing to bring the water quality even a notch higher, an additional step after the Berkey purification would be to use a Vortex Water Revitaliser. The vortex technology is able to restructure the chaotic water from the municipal water pipes into having beautiful crystalline-like a pattern, similar to that displayed by snow flaks. Not only has such water an additionally enhance taste, but it is also more easily assimilate it by our cells. Otherwise, our body has to spend extra energy to restructure the chaotic water we drink, since all our bodily liquids have a crystalline-like structure.




I was told by Eminé Piyalé-Sheard, the company's president, who founded the company 10 years ago, that the reason she became interested in water, water quality, and the water purifying devices was because of her mother's bouts with cancer. She realized that medication and healthy eating was not enough, and that the quality of drinking water was a major component to rebuilding and maintaining one's health. This is why she decided to dedicate her professional life to educating people about the necessity of drinking pure water, and to promoting the best water purification systems available. 


She got an addition proof she was on the right track shortly after she founded her Aqua Health Products business. Her brother who who lived in the countryside and had well water also installed a water ionizer unit. He had several dogs and he decided to do an experiment. He filled 2 buckets one with the well water, and the other with the filtered-ionized water and gave both to dogs to drink. All dogs ignored the well water and drank only from the ionized water bucket. He then spend several days changing the bracket arround, but the dogs continued to only drink only the ionized water.



Unfortunately, human beings do not have such sharp instincts as dogs. This is why the kiosk offered an opportunity to taste several different water samples, educating people's taste buds as to the difference of water purification systems offered. The company also offered a free educational session about the water purifications systems



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For more information about the high quality water purification systems the Aqua Health Product company offers, please visit their website.

Also visit the dedicated Berkey filters website.





Friday, March 15, 2019

Expo Manger Santé et Vivre Vert 2019


Expo Manger Santé et Vivre Vert
22nd Edition

March 15 - 17, 2019

Quebec Trend-setter for Healthy Eating and Green Living for 22 Years !

Located once again at the Montreal's Palais des Congrès, this extremely popular exhibition features the latest and the best products that support healthy eating and living. Montrealers are becoming more and more conscious as to how important it is to care what one puts into the mouth, on the skin, or has at home or in the back yard. People are turning to the latest trends and information how to choose the best products and foods that support their health and vitality. This year's show offers a great assortment of products that do just that. The visitors will discover, buy, and bring home items that will support their health and well-being, additionally making them conscious about carrying for the environment.

The Expo will be also presented at the Centre des Congrès de Québec on March 30-31 (19th Edition), and at the Eastern Townships for the first ever kick-off event at the Centre des Foires in Sherbrooke, on May 11-12, 2019.


This year, the Expo brings together nearly 350 exhibitors, and will welcome over 35,000 visitors, offering solid strategies and tools to improve health, well-being, and people's living environment all year round.



Author of several books on vegetarian cuisine as well as the founder of Expo Manger Santé et Vivre Vert Renée Frappier, who is also an enthusiast about the growing popularity of the Zero Waste movement, stated:
"We are thrilled to see the current fervour and propensity toward healthy eating, a trend now reflected in Canada's latest Food Guide... What a pleasure to see such major changes occurring in our everyday eating habits. At the Expo, our aisles are filled of green products and we are proud to help bring these eco-solutions to a more receptive audience than ever before!"



Expo Manger Santé et Vivre Vert also includes two other very important sections, Ecology and Global Health, providing a complete overview of the newest products and trends for a healthy and ecological lifestyle.


Among the lead products, visitors will discover a variety of vegan foodstuffs such as a new vegan cheese sauce, vegan sorbets and a pizza flour made from organic wheat, as well as various new fermented, raw and probiotic foods. Some exhibitors are also offering the Expo visitors the opportunity to purchase their products in bulk.



An Impressive Guest List

In addition to the many popular tastings, Expo Manger Santé et Vivre Vert also offers an equally tantalizing assortment of over 150 conferences and culinary demonstrations:

Big names such as Marilou, Isabelle Huot, Andréanne Martin, Jessie et PH, Stephanie Audet (Chef at the LOV restaurants), Famille et Tofu, Jocelyna Dubuc (Spa Eastman) will be taking to the educational stage throughout the panoply of events being held at this year’s Expo. Back by popular demand, for an 8th Edition, is the Championnat de cuisine végétale de Montréal, a cookoff promoting plant-based recipes while encouraging culinary creativity. The panel of judges: Caroline Huard (Loounie Cuisine), Emmanuel Bilodeau and Jean-Philippe Cyr (La Cuisine de Jean-Philippe) will determine which is the most colourful, nutritious and original creation, all in a pleasantly relaxed atmosphere. In addition, top bakers will be celebrated during this 6th Batch of the Best Artisan Baking Competition, a presentation of la Meunerie Milanaise.



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All images @ Nadia Slejskova



I very much recommend to visit this show.
To find out more about the opening hours, visit the Expo Manger Santé et Vivre Vert website.



Sunday, March 10, 2019

Montreal Home Show 2019


The Montreal National Home Show 2019
40th Edition

March 8 - 17, 2019


To celebrate it's 40th edition, the Montreal's Home Show is offering this year a FREE ENTRY for the entire 10-day show's duration to all visitors born in 1979 (40 years ago), upon presentation of a valid id at the Place Bonaventure's ticket counter.



The Home Show is presented by RE/MAX in partnership with RONA. It offers the widest choice for the completion of any renovation, landscaping and decoration projects.



Year after year, the Home Show presents the latest innovations available on the market. It will appeal to both home-owners and those who rent an apartment. This year will feature everything one needs to decorate a house or an apartment on a budget: to change the bedroom furniture, landscape the yard, or begin a major renovation project (roof, windows, balcony, etc.). The show will also help those who are planning to purchase home appliances. 


A special attention is devoted to decorating patios, especially to the design of the patio furniture, as well as the colour, and the arrangement of various elements to achieve an attractive and cosy environment.






The Home Show also features kiosks with food and drinks where one can taste some Quebec specialities.



Every day of the show, there are also culinary presentations followed by a tasting.




There are also thematic presentations, for example on such subjects as how to decorate your home on a low budget, or how to create your own garden. The conference by Guillaume Pelland on sustainable, easy-maintenance edible gardening was especially interesting.  He is a recipient of the 2018 Sustainable Development award from la Financière agricole du Québec for creating and growing ecologically edible perennial gardens that are beutiful and extremely easy to maintain. On his site Paysage gourmand, fruits, vegetables, aromatic herbs and edible flowers of all colours form tasty, durable and beautiful designs to enjoy!


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All photos by Nadia Slejskova.

For more information about various activities, opening hours and tickets, visit The Montreal National Home Show's website.

Read about previous editions of the Montreal National Home Show here.