Happy St. Patrick’s Day! This is one of my favorite holidays, mostly because green is my favorite colour and that includes the colour of my food. To have a varied diet, we should be eating the rainbow, but let’s just focus on the green food to celebrate this St. Patrick’s Day. Green food include some
Let me take you back to last summer I was on the ferry going from Nanaimo to Vancouver BC, Canada, and with almost 2 hours to kill I went to the gift shop. I have been on many ferry trips like this and browsing the books and magazine racks is one of my favorite ways
One aspect of heart health is lowering stress. Stress can not only increase blood pressure in the short term, but it can also increase the chances of having cardiovascular disease (CVD). To prevent stress from affecting your heart health, self-care is an important method to lower your stress. My top 3 self care recommendations are
When looking for heart health recipes it is important to look for high fiber, good sources of omega 3 and nutrient-dense foods. For more information on the importance of fiber on heart health read last week’s blog post called “Feeding a Healthy Heart”. This week’s post will give more direction on how to actually apply
In the wise words of Bruce Springsteen, “Everybody’s got a hungry heart”, but are you feeding it well? Feeding a healthy heart is something really close to my heart as a large portion of my family has faced cardiovascular problems in one form or another. I am not alone in this as Statistics Canada has
