While chronic stress is a year-round struggle for many of us, it can be particularly difficult to manage around the holidays when extra commitments and social interactions are piled on top of existing responsibilities and demands. If you’ve tried taking a deep breath or even taking a yoga class and are stressed out thinking about […]
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Univera Serve First® Donates $1000 to Las Rosas Rojas
Univera Serve First has donated $1000 to Mexican orphanage Las Rosas Rojas. Las Rosas Rojas provides support, education, food, clothing, toiletries and other services to children and single mothers. A total of 60 children are currently housed and living there while an additional 180 receive schooling, food and other services through the organization. With over […]
Walking: More Beneficial than You May Think!
Many people want to get more active to improve their health and fitness but get confused by the mass of conflicting information out there as well as daunted by the time and effort involved in taking trips to the gym, getting a gym membership at all, what the best exercise equipment or routine might be, […]
Childhood Stress and Health in Adulthood: The Surprising Connection
We’ve all heard about how a stressful job, life circumstance or living environment can negatively impact someone’s health, but what about a stressful childhood? And no, this is not just another round of ‘let’s blame my parents for my problems’! “This is the first study to suggest a heightened risk for chronic diseases by individuals […]
Stress, Disease and Quality of Life
Sure, we all know that stress is bad and can have a negative impact on our health. We’ve all heard it before, but just how dangerous and far reaching can the impact of stress really be for our lives? From increasing your risk for Diabetes to making you more forgetful, JR Thorpe’s 9 Things Stress […]
What is Nutrigenomics?
If you’ve ever wondered about the effect of nutrition and lifestyle choices on health and general wellbeing, you’re certainly not alone. These days it’s generally accepted that what you eat can affect your weight, your energy levels, even your susceptibility to certain diseases. But what if there was even more at stake in that choice […]
The Surprising Link Between Obesity and Vitamin A Deficiency
While intuitively, it would seem that if someone gets enough calories, and those calories contain enough of any given vitamin or nutrient, it would be impossible for them to experience deficiencies in that vitamin or nutrient and by extension the detrimental health effects of such a deficiency. But in some intriguing new Cornell University findings, […]
Use of Food Banks Rising in Canada?
While it’s hard to dispute the valuable service that food banks provide to those in need and the difference that they can make in communities across the world, it’s still a concerning trend when the need for their services increases. According to Wendy McLeod, writing for Kelowna Now, “The number of people who rely on […]
Walla Walla Wine Walk
A smashing success, the Walla Walla Wine Walk was held on September 26th, 2015 in downtown Walla Walla. Tickets to the event went towards supporting Univera Serve First® and provided guests with access to a variety of wine tastings to choose from as they walked through local participating wineries and cellars, as well as live […]