Are living well and eating well your passion or hobby? Interested in starting up a health and wellness business? How about turning your passion into a career by taking courses? There are traditional health careers, such as nursing, pharmacy, dietetics, kinesiology, dentistry and chiropractics. Other careers don't require the same level of education and […]
Image courtesy of pixabay.com Of the five senses, the one I take for granted is the sense of smell. But I did take smell into consideration when I planted my garden. I deliberately chose flowers that were fragrant–lilacs, lily of the valley, hyacinth and phlox. Besides creating a pleasant environment, smell plays a role in enhancing […]
Ever wondered what goes on behind the scenes in terms of medical preparation and support during any great sport event? Just ask Dr. Julia Alleyne, chief medical officer for the Canadian Olympic team and top doctor for the 2015 Pan Am games. Besides monitoring the health of all Canadian athletes and accredited team members partaking […]
Photo courtesy of pixabay.com The following is what I remember the most from all my years of nutritional science studies: The professor mentioned that one of the associations (perhaps the American Heart Association?), advocated a diet of not more than 10% fat to treat some condition (perhaps high cholesterol or triglyceride levels?). As you can’tell, […]
image courtesy of blog.orlandoavenue.com After a long hibernation period (also known as winter), it can be hard to get moving again. But now that it's warm outside and the days are longer, there are a wide range of ways to get fit. If you're an older adult and would like to hear some ideas from […]
Creative Commons Deed CCO Mindfulness has been the 'flavour of the month' for health books recently. I think of mindfulness as focusing on the present and being in the moment and a technique to deal with stress and anxiety in our busy lives. And indeed, many recent titles on mindfulness are about mindfulness-based stress reduction […]
Now you can…there is an app for that! Check out this free app "Be My Eyes", developed by Hans Jorgen Wiberg in Copenhagen, Denmark. Wiberg, who has Usher Syndrome, an inherited condition that causes progressive vision loss, came up with the idea for an app after he saw many blind people using FaceTime to get help […]
Sitting is a favourite pastime in North America. We sit in our cars, sit at our desks, lounge around in endless meetings and when we get home, guess what? We plunk down in front of the tele or computer. According to a survey "Americans are sitting an average of 13 hours a day and sleeping […]
More and more people recognize the value of healthy eating. Even fast food chains are cashing in on this trend. Clean Eating, as we have seen in last week's blog, can improve your health by replacing junk and processed food with wholesome food that you prepare at home. But alas, as with most things in life, […]
image courtesy of Pixabay.com What do you think of when you see the words "clean eating"? I remember the first time I saw the magazine Clean Eating on the library shelf and I wondered, as opposed to what? Eating dirty food? Eating with dirty hands? I was curious, but not curious enough to look through […]