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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]