5 groups that should be extra cautious in the heat

Credit to Author: Canadian Immigrant| Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2024 03:06:39 +0000

Heat waves are on the rise. That’s when we experience elevated temperatures and humidity for a few days. Extreme heat can harm everyone’s health, but some groups are more at risk. Here are five groups that should be extra cautious during a heat wave.

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Crafting your self-care formula: Health and performance secrets from pro athletes

Credit to Author: Dr. Dwight Chapin| Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2024 19:19:21 +0000

The perception that self-care is too difficult, too time-consuming or too self-indulgent often discourages people from sticking with their formula when things get tough. However, self-care is not selfish; research shows that our daily choices can significantly influence our performance, as well as our longevity. 

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Shape your family’s healthy habits

Credit to Author: Cheryl Song| Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2024 18:48:51 +0000

While New Year’s resolutions are easy to make but easier to break, investing in developing healthy habits through repetition, which can be easily incorporated into your lifestyle will help you sustain them.

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Live long, be well: Lifestyle tips for healthy aging

Credit to Author: Canadian Immigrant| Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2023 17:46:46 +0000

Healthy aging is not a myth. Making choices daily to improve your health, no matter what age you start, will pay off as you feel your body’s power propelling you to live a long, healthy life.

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Stack healthy habits to protect your greatest asset

Credit to Author: Canadian Immigrant| Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2023 15:00:46 +0000

Our daily choices matter. As our lives unfold and habits are formed, the choices we repeat ultimately define our health, performance and happiness. Healthy habits can activate our healing potential, strength and hope.

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Stack healthy habits to protect your greatest asset – your health

Credit to Author: Canadian Immigrant| Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2023 15:00:46 +0000

Our daily choices matter. As our lives unfold and habits are formed, the choices we repeat ultimately define our health, performance and happiness. Healthy habits can activate our healing potential, strength and hope.

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Taking fitness outside: 9 tips for becoming more active through the Canadian winter

Credit to Author: Canadian Immigrant| Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2023 22:13:31 +0000

If you made a New Year’s resolution about physical activity, you are not alone. Many Canadians make resolutions, and most focus on moving more.

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Navigating an unfamiliar health-care system

Credit to Author: Nandini Tirumala| Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2022 21:15:41 +0000

Newcomers make a lot of decisions within the first few weeks and months after arriving in Canada. During the settlement process, an important area that may often be ignored involves decisions about your healthcare needs.

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Tips to navigate menopause in a new country

Credit to Author: Nandini Tirumala| Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2022 00:31:20 +0000

Moving to a new country is a major life transition. However, experiencing menopause simultaneously during the settlement process can increase the complexity of this transition for some women.

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Person-centred care and how you can take your health into your own hands

Credit to Author: Canadian Immigrant| Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2022 16:31:03 +0000

Person-centred care is the philosophy of giving power back to patients and putting them “at the centre” of care. It can lead to lower health-care spending and better patient health outcomes. That’s why person-centred care has become a top priority in Canada. As a health services researcher working with an international group of researchers, my […]

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