Tag: obesity
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How Weight Loss Classes Can Benefit Your Holistic Wellness
Canadians are still bouncing back from the health impacts of years of isolation. A recent survey of over 1,000 citizens shows that almost one-third of them don’t exercise at all, despite the country’s health officials’ recommendation of at least 150 minutes per week of physical activity. After all, finding the motivation to go to the gym…
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How Cardiovascular Disease Connects To Inflammation
I bet we all have someone near and dear to our heart, who has been touched by cardiovascular disease. Public health and agencies such as Heart and Stroke Society have done an excellent job highlighting some of the key factors that are risk factors to cardiovascular disease. These risk factors can include hypertension, diabetes, high…
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The Healthy Body Needs Shocking
Fitness plateaus – we’ve all hit them before and they are nearly impossible to break. Did you know that health journals may help you get past a plateau or move back toward unhealthy habits? Logging food intake and exercising seems tedious; however, Jenn Zerling http://jzfitness.com , MS, CPT, the author of Breaking the Chains of…
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Winners And Losers Around The World In School Lunches
School has ‘been in’ for awhile now. Does your child’s school lunches sound healthy to you? How do you think it compares to school dinners from around the world? And how much do school meals affect energy levels for post-lunch learning and does that have an impact on PISA test results? Check out this infographic…
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Wellness Blogger Offers These Healthy Summer Snack Recipes
“Every story and every memory from my childhood is attached to food,” Dawn Lerman writes. Our relationship with food starts at a very young age: what and how we eat is often determined by our environment and our upbringing. Our eating habits and snack tastes are cultivated by our family members’ relationships to food, for…
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Take This Quiz And Get To Know Your Diseases
Cough. Cough. Sneeze. Sneeze. Here is a quiz from our friends at gapmedics.com entitled “Know Your Diseases?”, which takes a look at some modern-day ailments, showing symptoms and asking you to diagnose them! Do you think you can do it? It’s fun and it might be harder than you think!
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Former Obese Addict Alcoholic Ran Boston Marathon Four Times
Twenty-seven thousand athletes ran the last Boston Marathon. However, one man ran it four times … four times in one day. David Clark is a former 320-pound alcoholic who was also addicted to painkillers. He’s been sober for nearly a decade and credits extreme endurance sports for his path to recovery in his bestselling autobiography, Out…
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Ontario Planning Legislation- Mandatory Menu Labeling For Fast-Food Restaurants and others
October, 2013 Ontario will help parents and their children make healthier choices by putting calories on menus, following consultations with the fast-food industry and health care sector. Legislation that would require large chain restaurants to include calories and other potential nutritional information on their menus will be introduced this winter. The government…
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North American Society A Madhouse Says Former US State Hospital Doctor
“Insane” has a clear meaning when we can look at it next to “sane” in the real world. Unfortunately, that has become more and more difficult to do, says Mike Bartos, former chief of staff at an American state psychiatric hospital for the criminally insane. “It’s not just because the media rely so much now…