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Nutrition: Healthy Food Choices
Are you making the best food choices? Are you skipping meals because of your hectic lifestyle? How do you fit the recommendations from Canada's Food Guide into your life? In this modern world of multi-tasking and fast food - and fast eating - maintaining healthy nutrition habits may be difficult and overwhelming. Read about what foods you should eat to reap possible health benefits and satisfy the hunger pangs, and what you can do to eat healthy with a busy schedule.
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Brain food for thought
A French epicure once said, "Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are." But can eating certain foods make you smarter, happier, or more able to constructively respond to stress? Could junk food lead to a junk attitude? Connections are being made all the time between the foods we eat and the way we feel, think, and act.
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Foods to fill up on
Guess which meal has more calories: a small tuna-salad sub or 1½ cups of whole wheat pasta mixed with a cup of frozen veggies, sautéed in garlic and olive oil and topped with 2 tablespoons of freshly-grated parmesan? And now guess which meal is likely to be more filling?
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Hectic lifestyles and nutrition
The Facts
- We are getting busier and living at a faster pace every year. Being rushed means we may not always eat as well as we could.
- Skipping meals, eating erratically, and being stressed can lower your resistance to colds and flu.
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High Blood Pressure:
The Facts
Blood pressure is the force of blood pressing against the inner walls of blood vessels. High blood pressure, or hypertension, puts you at risk for serious conditions such as a heart attack or stroke. Unfortunately, about 42% of Canadians who have high blood pressure are not aware that they have it. Learn more about this “silent” condition and how you can make lifestyle and diet changes to help
manage it.
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