Category: Health

  • Your Health Your Heart

    For those who know me well – you know that I initiate conversations with strangers. I like it. I like learning about people during my travels. Today I spoke to a heart attack survivor in the gym. I first saw him on the track but then when noticing him on the nautilus equipment I felt…

  • City Driving

    It’s been two years without a car and I’m loving it. City driving can work you over emotionally and it can be impactful on your psyche. I see evidence of this every day. I was one of those enthusiastic 16 year olds out to get licensed at the earliest opportunity and I’ve owned a car…

  • Exercise Benefits

    Exercise stimulates the release of endorphins and adrenaline. These hormones when coupled produce a feeling of energized well being. You know this and you’ve asked yourself why you don’t exercise more often having just wrapped up a work out. Let’s examine benefits of exercise.  Exercise physiologists speak less frequently regarding the motility of blood through…

  • Nurses Quebec Example

    Did you know that Quebec reported 50,000 health care workers now on “leave” from work due to “burn out”? Just when your country needed them most….those nurses in Quebec are now collecting a disability cheque. That’s right – short term and long term disability claims are enormous right now. The actual number not on the…

  • You Think You Have It Tough?

    Yes…it’s a provocative title. Poverty and hardship comes in many different forms. There are those who choose not to pursue success. There are others who blame others for their circumstances. There are the addicted and the depressed. There are the swindlers and the slovenly. There are those without a conscience. There’s the combination of variables…