Healthy eating
for a healthier you
One of the best things you can do for overall health, including heart health, is to eat a nutritious and balanced diet. A lifetime of healthy eating will help with your general well-being, give you more energy, and help prevent many chronic diseases, especially if you’re also physically active and don’t smoke.
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Stay active. Eat like a champion.
The theme for Dietitians of Canada’s Nutrition Month® in March
To help make the campaign for this Nutrition Month® ‘real’ for Canadians, we’ve asked a dietitian to provide some practical suggestions around everyday nutrition to enhance your active living style.
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Confessions of a celiac
The bright side of gluten-free living
When I was a teenager, I was far from a picture of health. I suffered with chronic diarrhea, severe abdominal pain and bloating, weight loss and fatigue. My skin was pale, covered with eczema and bruised easily.
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Looking and feeling better:
tips to lose that last 15 pounds
Mulling over your personal health history, can you pinpoint a time in your life when weight started to ‘creep up’ on you? Did an emotional or stressful trigger spark the number on the scale to climb? Or was it the hectic pace of life that put your health on the back burner, until one day you woke up and realized you didn’t feel like the vibrant, fit person you’re meant to be? The good news: your body has an amazing forgiving and restorative nature.
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The Power of Organic Farming
There is a world of difference between organic and conventional farming: from the nutrient quality of the product, to the sustainability of the land, to the true long-term costs of food. According to Stephanie Wells of the Canadian Organic Trade Association, organic farming avoids the use of toxic and persistent synthetic pesticides and fertilizers, collectively known as inputs.
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Nectar of the gods
Healthy Water
Water covers over 70% of the Earth, and makes up 70% of our bodies. Next to oxygen, water is the single most important substance your body needs to survive. Yet we often don’t give the quality of our water a second thought.
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For Strong, Healthy Bones
Eat a salad in the sun
When it comes to bone health, we often oversimplify the message to one word: calcium. The crucial question, however, isn't how much calcium you take in, but how much of that calcium goes into the bone and stays there.
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The Eat Clean Diet for Energy and Health
Even if you’ve spent the winter hibernating and hoarding food, it’s not too late to start on a path to a healthier, leaner you. Tosca Reno, best selling author of The Eat Clean Diet, shares her fat-to-fabulous success story.
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Hard to swallow
When food makes you sick
Perhaps the proverb ‘one man’s meat is another man’s poison’ isn’t about preferences. Perhaps it’s really about food. In Canada, 6% of young children and 3-4% of adults are affected by food allergies, and following a world-wide trend, numbers are increasing. And these are only the people who know they have food issues. Countless others – maybe even you – tolerate vague symptoms like headache, fatigue, insomnia, loss of concentration, joint pain or skin conditions without making the connection to menu choices.
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Baby’s First Year
The ABCs of feeding
The first year of your baby’s life is one of the most precious and critical times of development, which can and should be an exciting adventure for you both. From developing healthy sleep patterns to hitting a variety of milestones – your little one’s growth and advancements are nothing short of miraculous.
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Green Tea:
Your health is in the bag.
Sometimes making choices for your health is difficult. Sometimes, it’s as easy as sipping a cup of green tea. It’s time to drink to your health.
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Spring Clean Your Body
With each sunrise, we're a little older. As a trade-off for the privilege of waking up, many of us think we need to accept the occasional stiff muscle, forgetfulness, varicose veins or few extra pounds. We reminisce about days gone by when energy was boundless and sleep was the last thing on our minds at bedtime. Yet it's possible the symptoms of 'aging' you're experiencing might have nothing to do with your age. It's possible you just need a good spring-cleaning.
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WEIGHT LOSS
Everyone has had that moment when you look in the mirror and say, “Oh my! I’ve got to get into shape!” You join a gym or get all gung-ho about a diet. Then three to four weeks later, you begin self-sabotaging. In a few more weeks, you’re back into old patterns. You want it so badly yet can’t seem to stick to it! Why??
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Gut Reaction: The Candida Story
What do heartburn, morning aches, creaky joints, depression, PMS, headaches, dandruff, excessive perspiration and memory loss have in common? While you might think it’s a list of symptoms that define aging, these seemingly unrelated complaints have been linked to problems in the digestive tract caused by a single-celled bacteria (yeast) called ‘Candida albicans’. Happily, you can stop Candida in its tracks and start feeling good.
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Getting Your Vitamins The OJ Way
Today’s shoppers are increasingly making the link between food and health, and wisely choosing healthier foods for their families. Orange juice - one of the most nutrient dense beverages - remains a healthy choice. An eight-ounce serving of orange juice provides 72 mg of vitamin C - 120% daily value (DV), 30 mg of vitamin E - 100% DV and 60 mcg of folate - 15% DV.
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Diebesity - modern day epidemic
If you thought the era of epidemics were a thing of the past regretfully, this is not so. Canada’s newest epidemic ‘Dia-besity’ was coined when experts noted the distinct relationship between the growing number of people with Type 2 diabetes mellitus that were also overweight or obese.
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Dynamic Duo
Diabetes & Heart Disease - the link
Recently, I heard an all-too-familiar story in my line of work. A friend mentioned that her local grocer was in the hospital recovering from a heart attack. She knew he had type 2 diabetes since they often chatted about his health and his efforts to control his blood glucose with medication and diet, but had never mentioned heart problems. Confused and concerned, she wanted to learn more.
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Berry Good For You
If you’ve felt that burning discomfort and urgency then you’re one of 80% of women who’ve had at least one Urinary Tract Infection (UTI) at some point in their life. UTI’s are responsible for approximately 9.6 million doctor visits annually; with healthcare costs exceeding one billion dollars a year in North America
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Your Waistline
A clue to disease
John just visited the doctor for his annual exam only to discover that he has high bad cholesterol, triglycerides, blood pressure and blood sugar. All symptoms of a condition called Metabolic Syndrome also known as the Insulin Resistance Syndrome, Syndrome X and pre-diabetes. It’s estimated that 65 million North Americans suffer from this potentially deadly condition
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Healthier children by decision
Waking up to the reality of childhood obesity
The next time you pass your local elementary or high school, take a close look at the kids in the schoolyard. Approximately 26% will be obese, with many more considered clinically overweight – earning Canada recognition as 5th highest in the world for childhood obesity. Of greater concern to health professionals is that the incident of childhood obesity has tripled since 1980 – shocking but not surprising given that 60% of Canadian adults are also clinically overweight or obese today.
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