Candy Alert!

I hope you all had a spooky Halloween (if you celebrate it of course)!  It is really tempting to indulge in candies after yesterday's "Trick or Treat".   But RESIST!  Sugar is the number one cause of body acidity, which in turns makes one vulnerable to viruses and bacteria.  It is not a coincidence that the cold season starts right after Halloween both in warm and cold winter places.  

Put away all your leftover candies in a secured cupboard to completely forget about it instead of satisfying your craving for sweets during the next few days. Well, that is how I do it!  You will notice that once you stop eating candies and desserts, once you stop adding sugar to your food or coffee or carefully start choosing food that are low in sugar (avoid sucrose, lactose and fructose on labels), the urge for it goes away almost instantly.  That is because the sugar rush is addictive as I'm sure you know.  Plus, because it is digested so quickly, the energy is only short lived.  

Natural sources of sugar are much better than white refined sugar.  If you must sweeten your food, replace it with organic honey or pure maple syrup while cooking.   Or better yet, substitute sweets for fresh fruits at snack time. Again, I'm probably not teaching anyone anything new with this, but sometimes we forget and I thought this would a good time to remind everybody that natural sources of sugar are better.

Choral Symposia

I had the pleasure of attending a workshop on choir conducting.  It was fun to touch base with my sight singing skills, something that I really hadn't done so much in the last years, and to learn different pedagogies on how to better direct a choir.