Category: Lifestyle
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Chronic Diseases Begin Early in Life- Years Before any Diagnosis
Having worked in cardiac rehabilitation for over twenty years I learned early on that many patients are in the best shape of their lives the day they complete the program. That makes sense, to some extent, because they’ve just spent the last four months in a supervised exercise program. They also feel better for it.…
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If I’m obese, is it my fault?
If I ask most people, they’ll say it’s that person’s fault, perhaps not to his/her face, but there will be at least judgement of what the person did or didn’t do to gain weight. Maybe he/she ate too much, or sat on the couch too much, or maybe a bit of both. Either way, most…
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Labelling Menus with Calories: Does it work?
We can’t go anywhere or do anything without some reminder or temptation for us to eat unhealthy foods, or foods of low nutritional value. We see it on commercials, in magazines, on billboards and even at the checkout counter in stores where candies are wrapped up in shiny packaging to attract our eye. There’s a…
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Learning to Fail in Order to Succeed in Changing Behaviour (Part 2)
There’s a saying that goes: Failing to plan, is planning to fail. It’s a neat catch-phrase meant to emphasize the importance of planning. Planning definitely is important but we should also be planning to fail. This doesn’t mean we have to be defeatist or negative but rather recognizing that failure is a part of, and…