Blog Posts
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Feeling anxious? You’re not alone.
A few nights ago I started to feel unwell. I was cold and tired. I couldn’t seem to warm up and had chills throughout my body. I’d been for a bike ride earlier that day and it was a cool March morning. I’d felt like this before but this time it was different. The difference…
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How can I help?
When a major earthquake occurred in the Indian Ocean on December 26, 2004 resulting in a devastating tsunami, more than $6.2 billion was donated and relief efforts were mobilized around the world. Many people asked, how can I help? It’s human nature to want to help those in need. It’s in our DNA. Giving to…
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Building a Routine is Crucial When Self-isolating
Humans are creatures who crave routine. We like the certainty and predictability of it. That’s why trying to change and adapting to change can be so hard. But right now, we’re all going through one of the biggest changes in our lives and building a routine can help you cope with it. Whether it’s work,…
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Air Pollution, Greenspace and Your Health
We’re learning more and more about the health impacts of air pollution and the benefits of greenspace. From smog that we can see to micro-particles that we can’t, continued exposure to air pollution can increase your risk for heart and lung diseases among others. We might think of air pollution as something beyond our control…
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Preventing Diabetes with a Healthy Lifestyle
We’ve made great strides in a lot of diseases. Over the years death rates from heart disease continue to go down. Survival from cancers is going up. But one disease still keeps climbing and that’s diabetes. The prevalence of diabetes is between 7% and 9% in adults. And it increases with age such that 1…
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Why I Started a Health Blog
It’s been three years, 135 posts (136 now with this one) and over 100 000 views since I started developing my health blog. I had just begun my sabbatical and one of my goals was getting the blog off the ground. I had no idea how to do it, but I figured since I enjoyed…