Canadian athletes offer tips for everyday success

We all have dreams, no matter how big or small. However, trying to achieve them can sometimes feel like an overwhelming task. That’s why it’s important to prepare in advance and set goals. Canadian Olympic athletes know first-hand that dreams are not achieved overnight. With years of training, sacrifice [...]

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When she started treatment for cancer, Lauren Donnelly went from being an active teen taking part in soccer and dance to completely bedridden.
Donnelly was diagnosed in September 2005 with acute lymphoblastic leukemia, the most common form of childhood cancer. Therapy left her so weakened at times that walking upstairs to bed was an [...]

Organic food is better

Almost half of Canadians believe it is more important a food be labelled natural than organic, even though organic foods are more heavily regulated, a new survey suggests.
Sixty per cent of Canadian consumers believe it’s important a new product be made from “all-natural ingredients,” while 45 per cent have “greater trust” [...]

Fend off those winter blues

Whether or not you subscribe to a claim that the most depressing day of the year occurs on the third Monday of January, it’s not a bad time to take stock and address the winter blues if you’re feeling down, experts say.
The designation was actually cooked up in 2005 as [...]

Love your heart

Knowledge is the key to good health, especially when it comes to cholesterol levels. Elevated levels of cholesterol rarely produce symptoms and often go undiagnosed until identified by a physician. Once it’s understood, simple lifestyle changes are often enough to keep mild to moderately elevated cholesterol levels in check. By working with a [...]

Weight levels increasing

Between 1981 and 2009, fitness levels of Canadian children and youth, as well as those of adults, declined significantly, according to the first findings from the Canadian Health Measures Survey (CHMS). This is the most comprehensive national survey ever conducted in Canada to determine fitness levels.
The CHMS captured key information relevant to the health of [...]

The number of doctors in Canada has risen over the last five years, and the rate of increase is greater than the rate of population growth, says a new report that was greeted with cautious optimism.
“We have obviously woken up to the fact in the last few years that we have this significant shortage [...]

As the Ontario government considers difficult decisions on funding for health care services, a new Nanos Research poll suggests that Ontarians would strongly oppose cutting any funding to community pharmacies. Seventy-six per cent of respondents said they would oppose or somewhat oppose reducing compensation for pharmacies. In addition, nearly 19 in 20 agreed (83%) or [...]

With immunization programs against the H1N1 influenza virus now under way in Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom, a new poll by Angus Reid Strategies has found that many people in the three countries do not plan to get the vaccine at all.
In the online survey of representative national samples in each [...]

According to a new Nanos Research poll, Canadians rate physicians and pharmacists highest among 18 professions, when it comes to honesty and ethics. Seventy-seven per cent of respondents call medical doctors’ standards of honesty and ethics “high” or “very high”, while the figure was 73 per cent for community pharmacists.
Also among the top five [...]