Particularly with the additional stress of COVID, many of us are feeling a bit dragged out and not at our usual energy level. While there are many causes and contributors to low energy, nutritional factors should be considered in any chronic lack of...
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In the season of parties and baking, it is easy to become detached from your health goals and to react to the many stressors – family, finances, time – by making less healthy food choices, drinking too much and sleeping too little. Then, as the h...
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There is a lot of news these days around the benefits of a plant-based diet. The latest from the World Health Organization (WHO) states that for optimal health outcomes, no more than ten percent of our calories should come from saturated fats, which ...
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As Nutrition Month draws to a close, here’s a post about how a dietitian can help you achieve your health and nutrition goals. As a registered professional who must follow evidence-based guidelines of care, and demonstrate competence in his or her ...
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March is Dietitian of Canada’s Nutrition Month, and the slogan this year is “Unlock the Potential of Food.” How can you unlock the potential of food to bring people together? Focus on family meals. Everyone these days seems to be busy, but...
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Now that the January hustle has died down and the days are getting longer, thank goodness, many of us are feeling that it’s time to get more active, if not more fresh air, depending on where you live and how much you like the cold. For those who ha...
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It’s started already … the flu has already shown itself in many areas, and we are heading into the chill of fall-to-winter weather, when it can be hard to know what to wear to be warm, but not too warm, and dry, should the weather turn wet. As we...
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Our three-day tour of QC is zipping by. To our relief and surprise, it has not been difficult to find good vegetarian choices even in a place where restaurants heavily feature steak frites and it can be a challenge to find any entrée that doesn't co...
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Visiting Montreal is a culinary delight, even on a budget, even with a vegan (my daughter)when I am not. So much ethnic food, with options for vegetarian, vegan, kosher, halal and many other choices to fit any desire. After a trip to the nearest Metr...
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Most of us have experienced this; the feeling of extremely wanting a certain food, a certain taste, a certain texture, which feels like physical hunger but which can happen when we are quite full and our bodies are not wanting food at all. This feeli...
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With the prevalence of ever-present technology in our lives, the reality is that there is less and less face-to-face contact with other people. As a health care provider, working in the private sector, my focus is on providing appropriate care to my ...
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Spring is here, and it's time to review your New Year's resolutions at the quarter-year mark. How are you doing on them? Make a list of what you had hoped to accomplish at this point in your year. Then decide if those goals are still relevant and rea...
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How many people love losing weight? It is exciting, and people notice you are looking better, and you may feel energetic and exhilarated by the improvement in your overall wellbeing. Unfortunately, weight loss happens over a finite period, after whic...
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How many of us have too much to juggle in the course of our daily life? And how much of what we have to juggle is just impossible, keeping balls in the air which we don’t own or even get to hold? When we are doing this, a lot of unnecessary guilt ...
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I see clients every week who desperately want to lose weight and get healthier, but who are faced with many barriers to meeting their goals. One problem that I see frequently is that they are setting goals which they have no power to reach, what I ca...
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So here we are at the end of January, no longer a new year, but one that may already be feeling a bit worn around the edges to you. What has happened to the New Years’ resolutions you made at the end of December, maybe even on New Years’ Eve, in...
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