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Pneumonia deaths are increasing. Protect yourself and your family.
1500 adults die from pneumonia in Canada every year. Since it’s the season to talk about immunization and flu shots, I thought I would also write about adult pneumonia. Pneumonia is an infection of the...
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Women’s Brains – Our Grey Matter, Matters!! An Update on the Women’s Brain...
New research confirms Dementia develops faster in women than men, and not just because we live longer. The Why?? is what’s driving the Women’s Brain Health Initiative and other organizations to...
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Top Trends in Preventative Healthcare 2016
Science and Technology Converge Part I The use of wearable technology- specifically fitness trackers to maintain a healthy lifestyle will continue to grow As a passionate advocate of preventative...
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Top Trends in Preventative Health Care 2016- Personalized Medicine
2016-Science and Technology Increasingly Converge Part 2 In my previous blog, I have been discussing some of the technological and scientific opportunities in preventative health care. So what does...
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Valentines Day – Straight from the heart
Taking care of loved ones means knowing the signs of heart attack symptoms Valentine’s Day as we know is a time to acknowledge your loved ones, showing your appreciation and yes, love. But I would...
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THE DECLINE OF DIETING
The NOT DIET Dieting is defined as restricting oneself to small amounts of food to lose weight. An estimated 45 million Americans spend $33 billion dollars a year trying to lose those extra...
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SUGAR SHOCK The unsweetened truth about sugar
Canadians eat an astounding 88 pounds of sugar per year—it’s about one in every five calories we consume. Sugar by any name; barley malt, brown rice syrup, corn syrup, cane syrup, dextrin, dextrose,...
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Healthy Aging: Why genes from our mothers are not enough
For Mother’s Day It’s that time of year when we think of our mothers and reflect upon the gift of life we’ve been given. Indeed, it is the very reason we are on this earth. What makes us unique and one...
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Is Life Expectancy Heading Downward?
Have we reached the tipping point? An interesting article recently appeared in the prestigious Journal of American Medicine Association (JAMA) about life expectancy and death rates in the US. The...
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The Sleep Revolution
I just reviewed Arianna Huffington’s important book on Sleep, The Sleep Revolution. Transforming your life, One Night at a Time. Let’s take a look at what she has to say. According to Ms. Huffington,...
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Osteoarthritis: A rising epidemic as baby boomers age. Signs, Symptoms and...
Arthritis consists of more than 100 different conditions, which range from relatively mild forms of tendonitis and bursitis to crippling systemic forms, such as rheumatoid arthritis. The common...
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Do you know how healthy you are?
How good is your health? The Benefits of getting a Personal Health Risk Assessment Don’t we all want to know how we’re doing from a health point of view and if we’re on the right track? That was a...
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How to cope with stress over the holidays –the most stressful time of the year.
MORE WOMEN THAN MEN ARE STRESSED DURING THE HOLIDAYS It doesn’t come as a surprise to me that more women are stressed over the holidays than men. On top of the ‘usual’ workload of looking after the...
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Pneumonia deaths are increasing. Protect yourself and your family.
1500 adults die from pneumonia in Canada every year. We are in the midst of a rough flu season similar to 2014-2015, where many outbreaks occurred and are likely to continue throughout the winter. So...
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My New Year’s Resolution– Is NO New Year’s Resolutions!
Yes, that’s what I decided in November. Why make a grand promise on January 1s, that most of us end up breaking almost as soon as it’s made? And in the process, we feel guilty for not sticking to our...
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Mumps are making a comeback in Canada
Have you been vaccinated? Check your vaccinations! A rise in cases of Mumps in Canada has public health officials asking young adults to check if they need a vaccination booster. The standard...
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Are your immunizations up to date? Immunize Canada wants you to #getvax
Remember #Getvax Immunize Canada wants to make sure you #getvax and celebrate a healthy tomorrow. 100 years ago, infectious diseases were the leading causes of deaths worldwide. In Canada, they now...
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Spring Cleaning is Time to De-clutter Your Life!
Learning to say NO! Spring cleaning is a time-honoured tradition of doing a deep clean of one’s home or a room. In modern times, it’s also used as a metaphor for a time to reflect on our lives and look...
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Workplace Health- Keeping a workplace healthy is all about prevention
Workplace health is all about prevention. When one person gets sick, it can have a domino effect. Soon everyone has ‘that cold so and so gave me’. So, prevention is now more important than ever...
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Skin Cancer–Summertime and the Living is Easy. But Not for Skin Cancer
Don’t be fooled looking at celebrity photos of stars walking the beach in Malibu all bronzed and healthy. It gives the wrong impression that looking good means getting a good tan in the summer. The...
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