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21+ tips to fuel fat loss
When it comes to whittling your waistline, it isn't simply about cutting calories: success comes from fuelling your fat-burning with specific nutrients.
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Elusive sleep
zzzzz’s are fundamental to health
The occasional sleepless night and groggy morning is generally nothing to worry about. But ongoing insomnia over several weeks can have detrimental health effects, say experts.
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Rehydrate + refresh
Coconuts have long been associated with tropical islands and exotic desserts – and locals have been enjoying the antibacterial, antimicrobial, antifungal and
antioxidant healing properties of coconut water for centuries. From young coconuts, the clear, electrolyte-rich water refreshes kids to grown-ups.
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Healing antioxidant summer herbs
As a Culinary Herbalist, I enjoy the entire spectrum of sweet and savoury flavours of culinary herbs. But, rosemary + thyme have found a permanent spot in the garden, kitchen and medicine cabinet because of their antioxidant properties.
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Baby steps
conception success
Whether you’ve decided it’s time to start a family – or you’re taking advantage of technology to help baby dreams come true – it’s a couple’s affair. Work together to make the lifestyle choices that support a fertile environment.
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Glide through menopause
Menopause is a natural life experience during which a woman can move into the next life-stage with a sense of freedom: ovulation and menstruation cease, and conception is no longer possible. Waning estrogen, progesterone and testosterone may trigger physical and emotional symptoms: hot flashes, night sweats, mood swings, anxiety, foggy head, weight gain, vaginal dryness and low libido.
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Superfood
energize for life
What seemed a fad 20 years ago – with only the diehard health foodie willing to throw back a bitter-tasting green drink in hopes of boosting energy, detoxification and get-up-and-go vitality – has transformed into a research-proven, delicious way to improve your health.
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Slimming
‘Meals That Heal!’
At the start of each summer, many people begin a diet to fit into their sexy revealing clothes. Most give up within a few weeks. So what’s the obstacle to success?
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Happy, healthy eating for kids
Life’s busy pace is an additional challenge to feeding our kids healthy foods. There’s no magic trick, it’s just trial and try again. Food provides fuel for their day and helps their bodies grow and develop − few things are more important – so moms, use these six quick, easy tips for healthy eating.
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Dr. Oz
After the show!
On a cold February afternoon, a Toronto theatre heated up as thousands excitedly waited for words of wisdom to ‘revitalize their life’ from North America’s most beloved doctor – Mehmet Oz.
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Delightful delicious dandelion!
Spring is synonymous with dandelions! The oft-dismissed ‘weed’ is remarkably nutritious. Half a cup of leaves has 187 mg calcium, more than a glass of milk;
Kick the habit!
Since the 1800’s, Canadian sugar consumption has increased from four pounds per person to over 150 pounds per person annually.
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A trip to healthy eating
Heart and Stroke Foundation registered dietitian, Carol Dombrow, guides you through the grocery store using Canada’s Food Guide. What to bring, how to load your cart, and what to limit.
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fat loss VS weight loss
If you’re in the one third of Canadians thinking about losing weight before the warmer weather arrives, it’s time to change the way you think about your body.
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Carbs 101
Setting the story straight
Carbohydrates seem to be the macronutrient ‘bad guys’ these days. Implicated in health conditions like diabetes and obesity, carbs often get a bad rap. But should they? Understanding this major nutrient and its role in the diet goes a long way in maintaining good health.
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Kick the habit
Since the 1800s, Canadian sugar consumption has increased from four pounds per person to over 150 pounds per person annually. Most of our intake is from prepared and processed foods, though table sugar, jams and syrups rank in the top four food sources.
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When “Eat your vegetables” = “No!”
Is it a battle to get your child to eat healthy? To end these battles and address your concerns for their health, rely on these nutritional supplements to help develop strong, healthy bodies and minds.
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Dry night = happy child
Many parents remember the delight of childhood sleepovers. But, for a child who suffers from ‘nocturnal enuresis’ or bedwetting, embarrassment often prevents participation.
Happy, healthy eating
Life’s busy pace is an additional challenge to feeding our kids healthy foods. There’s no magic trick, it’s just trial and try again.
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Live long, stay strong
How long and how well you live is the result of how well you fuel your body. For healthy longevity, start with a few achievable adjustments to your nutrition program.
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Choco-healthy
Scientists unwrap surprising healing benefits of the cacao bean known by ancient Mayans as the ‘food of the gods.’ Health benefits are achieved with very small amounts: as little as 6 gm (one small square) of dark chocolate a day containing at least 70% cocoa.
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Men for life!
Being a healthy man doesn’t mean toughing it out when you’re sick – it means preventing illness and living well. Men’s health concerns can begin in their 30’s, emphasizing the need for preventive steps at any age!
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Alfresco family fun
After enduring many months of sub-zero winter temperatures and damp, dreary spring showers, Canadians long to get outside and stay outside! Planning fun outdoor activities offers your family many benefits. It builds togetherness, creates shared memories and provides an opportunity to explore the wonders of nature.
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From fat kids to fit kids
The numbers are heart breaking, not to mention heart threatening: obesity rates among our children and youth have nearly tripled during the last 25 years. In fact, this generation of kids could be the first in history with a lifespan two to five years shorter than their parents. It’s not too late to reverse the trend.
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A Health Check™ nutrition makeover
Any time is a good time to make healthy changes. Give yourself a healthy nutrition makeover by following some easy and basic steps. The first step, and every step along the way to making wise eating choices, requires planning.
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Eaters digest
Almost everyone has experienced constipation, bloating, acid reflux and water retention during or after a heavy meal. Before you reach for an antacid, suppository, or diuretic medication to mask your holiday eating indiscretions this year, investigate the most overlooked beneficial component of digestive health: digestive enzymes.
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A healthy feasting formula
When friends and family gather around the dinner table, the nutritional quality of our food is the last thing we think about. Here’s a quick formula for keeping ‘healthy’ in your upcoming celebrations.
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Nutrition boot camp!
5 weeks to a new you
Eat great food and a great body naturally follows! If you are serious about getting results from your fitness program and desire living your best life, exercise combined with balanced nutrition is essential!
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Smart summer swaps
It's summertime, the season of the backyard barbecue, when family and friends enjoy food and fun alfresco.
Healthy living during the summer months is easier than any other time of year. Fresh produce is plentiful and the opportunity to get outdoors and be active abounds.
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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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A healthy lunch is in the bag
Autumn gives us a renewed focus on the quality of lunches we make for the kids or take to work. And this year in particular, you’re likely looking more closely at your choices at the grocery store. Try these tasty, healthy solutions to save your sanity... and your money.
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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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Changing food for the health of it
One of the easiest ways to be proactive about your health is to eat a balanced diet consisting of a variety of foods. To boost your success, make recipes healthier by reducing ingredients like sugar, replacing fats and boosting your nutrient intake with a few simple substitutions.
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Healthy snacking for growing bodies
Fast food and packaged meals have become a way of life for many busy families. This type of convenient eating comes with a high price: childhood obesity and type 2 diabetes are on the rise. Brenda Bradshaw and Dr. Cheryl Mutch have co-authored the book The Good Food Book for Families.
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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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The Best Diet Yet: Nutrition Plan 101
Are you looking for an easy way to drop excess weight in the shortest period of time imaginable? If so, you’re NOT going to find it here. But if you’re looking for a sure-fire Nutrition Plan to create the best, most healthy version of yourself possible in the New Year, read on…
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6 Simple Steps to Healthy Eating
Let’s say that your morning drive to work involves dropping the kids off at school and you’re running late as usual. You turn the key in the ignition. Nothing happens. The only light shining on the instrument panel is the fuel gauge – EMPTY. You aren’t going anywhere.
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A Fresh Look - at Diet, Lifestyle and Acne
Acne. It used to be the plight of the young and hormonal. But today, acne is striking professional women at alarming rates. In fact, acne is now considered a global epidemic. Some 20 million North Americans are diagnosed with acne while millions more suffer but do not visit doctors.
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Eat to Loose - Eating Habits to Create Your Perfect Body!
Wouldn’t it be a dream if you could actually eat food and lose weight? Most people are afraid of food preferring to skip meals and spend hours in the gym lifting weights and doing cardio until puddles of sweat form at their feet. Who’d think that eating is the key to a perfect body?
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Fat Loss That Lasts - 3 Keys to Building a Healthy Lifestyle
Do you remember searching for four leaf clovers in the grass when you were a kid? Making dandelion necklaces? Building forts with old cardboard boxes? What will your kids remember? Sitting in the back of a minivan? Ordering dinner at drive-thrus? Being shuttled from activity to activity? More importantly, how will it affect their mental and physical health?
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The G.I. Diet
The green-light way to permanent weightloss
It‘s that time of year again when we try to squeeze into summer shorts, bathing suits and skinny tops, and we wonder – where have those extra pounds come from? The dreaded word ‘Diet’ looms large. Memories of the annual stargreen-light wayvation, deprivation, counting calories and drooping energy levels come flooding back.
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The Natural Makeover Diet
Your face and body do not lie. The state of a person’s health can be determined simply by looking at their skin, hair, body and nails. If you’re run down or sick on the inside, it always shows up on the outside in a myriad of ways such as bags under the eyes, dry skin, brittle nails, pre-mature wrinkling, excess weight or difficulty losing weight.
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Sample Eating Plan
1794 calories
958 calories protein/fat
836 calories carbohydrates |
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Breakfast
1.5 oz (dry measurement) Oatmeal or Cream of Wheat or Shredded Wheat
3/4 cup skim milk
6 egg whites (can add vegetables, onion, celery etc) or 4 egg whites + 1 No fat cheese slice |
150
67
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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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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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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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OOPS! there goes another diet myth
Most people want to lose weight, as little as 5 pounds to over a 100. But did you know that 96% of people who go on diets gain the weight back? If you ever wanted the proof that dieting doesn’t work, here it is. The truth is people want to be healthy, to feel vital, strong and beautiful. So what are the choices? Even if you’ve “failed” here’s your opportunity to succeed – to heal your health, and your life now. But first, let’s get real about the facts!
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Waist Management
What are your vitals?
For anyone who watches medical shows you’ll be familiar with the term ‘vitals’. Usually in the middle of a dramatic scene when the patient isn’t doing well the doctor asks for the ‘vitals’. This term usually refers to blood pressure, heart rate and respiratory rate.
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