Tag: exercise
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Sitting: A silent killer?
We sit all the time. When we’re reading, watching TV or working. Chances are you spend more of your waking hours sitting than any other activity. For me, I’m sitting down while writing this blog. And you’re probably sitting while reading it. We can’t help but sit. It’s comfortable and as activities become more automated,…
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How to Keep Exercising at Home
With gyms, pools and community centres closed, and playing in team sports unavailable, more and more people are exercising at home. Even if you’re a runner, practicing physical distancing can be hard with more people on the sidewalks. Especially if you live in a city’s busy downtown core. Needless to say, all of us have…
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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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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…