Health
Food’s Role in Celebration
The role food plays in celebration is deeply rooted. It is a reward for an accomplishment, an expression of love, and an important cultural custom that instills tradition. Sometimes, having sufficient food and loving people to share it with is the cause for celebration.
RD-Approved Hacks to Recharge your Routine
Feeling down lately? You may not be depressed just perhaps in a slump. Professional nutritionist Tiffany helps you feel more energized and joyful.
Recharge Your Immune System
With colourful leaves comes the inevitable cold and flu season. Though your immune system can use a boost at any time of year, this is a great time to consider a more intense recharge to arm yourself with your best defence against this year’s bugs. Here are some tips to get your immune system fired up:
Rest is a Weapon
“Rest is a weapon” is the mantra of Jason Bourne and people who “go hard” often end up recovering from overuse injury or struggling with plateaus, stress, poor sleep, poor nutrition, and bad exercise habits. AKA burnout.
Rachael’s Reflection
In Canada, most of us are lucky enough to have food to eat each day, a bed to sleep in and loved ones who bring us joy. Yet somehow, through cultural and societal conditioning, we’ve come to favour the negative aspects of our lives and what we feel we’re doing wrong.
Preparing for Ski Season
The summer was amazing and as we transition into winter, now is the time to start prepping for the ski season. If you have never done this before, it is an absolute game changer and well worth the effort! Here are five tips to get you going.
Brooke’s Lunchbox Battle
A mom of three school-aged children who works full time knows what a nutritious lunch might look like, but she isn’t sure how to make it affordable, timely and find options that actually get consumed by her picky eaters.
Family Fitness Challenge
With the kids heading back to school and the schedules reappearing, it is also a great time for a family fitness challenge.
Unplugging for Your Family’s Health
We live in a complicated time when advancements in technology are occurring at lightning speed, and most of us have to keep up with the new developments to stay current in our jobs, in managing our exposure to and interaction with the me
It’s All About Balance
Quick and to the point – summer workouts truly allow you to be fit to play and do whatever you want, whenever you can. It also helps you to feel good, which is another by product of “good-sore” weekday muscles that help you stand straighter and re-balance the body for the coming weekend adventure.
Mason’s Mindful Eating
As we make an effort to unplug and remove ourselves from the increasing technology we have at our fingertips, have we considered how these may be affecting our relationship with food?
Managing Your Family's Stress
Life is incredibly busy, particularly when you are balancing the needs of a whole family, and the busier you are, the more stress can seem to pile up on your shoulders. Find out six basic ways to arm your family against the effects.
Getting “Ultra” Ready
The Elk Valley Ultra 50km race takes place Saturday July 29, 2017 and Sarah helps with tips to prevent overuse injuries.
Morgan’s Metabolism Mayhem
Experiencing the natural phenomenon of progressive metabolism decline with age and the frustration that comes with it.
Preparing for Your Family Vacation
Road trips, airplanes, camping, hotels; vacations come in many different shapes and sizes. Here are five ways you can plan ahead to make your family vacation happier and healthier