November 23rd of this year will mark two years since my husband had his heart attack. On that day and in the time since, he has received excellent care and we have a renewed appreciation for our Canadian health care system. We’ve also taken note of the technology used to keep all the professionals he has watching over him informed. His cardiologist communicates via computer with our family doctor, who in turn prints prescriptions for our pharmacist. Test results from blood work and …
Breast Cancer: Everyone Has a Story
"Yes, that first morning after that life altering diagnosis, when we get up and put one foot in front of the other and begin our first official day as someone with breast cancer, we become Survivors...finding the strength we never knew we could summon and a fight to survive that we never imagined we'd need. Yes, that is the day we become survivors." I hung on every word that Colleen Curtis spoke this past Sunday at the CIBC Run for the Cure. "Breast cancer decimates the entire family …
Cold or Flu? How to Know and What to Do
By now, summer is all but a memory and the cold winter air will soon blow in. Snuffly noses and hacking coughs will ring through staff rooms and school cafeterias; the loud, barking cry which foretells the coming of Cold and Flu Season. You're one of the lucky few if you don't get sidelined by at least a cold during the winter, because recycled air and lack of fresh air is like a welcome mat to the cold virus. Even if you do all you can to protect yourself - including frequent hand washing …
Ten Ways to Reward Yourself For Staying Healthy
I recently came across a friends status update on Facebook that I fell in love with. For every kilometre she ran, she banked a dollar. At the end of two months she had $250 dollars to go buy herself something pretty and, I suspect, a pretty fit body to boot. I really loved this approach to getting fit. Far too often we look at what what we have to deprive ourselves of instead of looking at how we can reward ourselves for being in the best shape we can be. When Lean Cuisine approached me about …
Trying Something New – Oil Pulling #PataksMom
One of the cool things about being a Patak's ambassador is that they ask us to do some really fun stuff. They've asked us to try new restaurants, and to check out films and this month they asked us to try out something Indian we've never done before. I decided to try oil-pulling. What can I say? I'm a lemming going off the cliff with this month's latest craze. I also decided to give meditation a go. In case you haven't heard, oil-pulling is the practice of swishing oil around in your mouth …
