Should You Supplement Your Meals?
Cooking for, and looking after the needs of, six kids and a self-employed husband must be a monumental task. Yet growing up, my mother made sure we had proper nutrition and the other necessities of life. Now that...
Cracking the Longterm Benefits of Eating Eggs
I love eggs for breakfast! Not only are they super easy to make, but they also taste good! It probably comes as no surprise that there are also many health benefits to eating eggs — and according to...
Beyond Hot Flashes: Caring for Your Mental Health Through Menopause
When you hear menopause, what comes to mind? Besides the physical changes to a woman’s body, menopause also brings about hormonal changes. During menopause, hormones such as estrogen and progesterone fluctuate and decrease. As a result, lower estrogen...
February Flash: Shamrocks Before Sickness—Start Your Prevention Now
February is a strange month. You blink and next thing you know shamrocks and leprechauns have replaced all the hearts and chocolates. However, even though February is the shortest month of the year, this doesn’t mean that your...
I Scream, You Scream: Are There Health Benefits to Ice Cream?
Recently, a friend sent me a post where the author was suggesting that ice cream may reduce the incidence of heart disease in diabetic patients. My first thought was, “Who are the authors of this study? Ben and...
How Healthy Eating Changes as We Grow Older
A Well-Balanced Diet Eating a well-balanced diet is a very important part of staying healthy as we get older. A healthy diet leads to a healthy weight, being more energized, and receiving the nutrients your body needs. It...
Tis the Season to Indulge!
Sarah Lee, PharmD Your Neighbourhood Staff Pharmacist Holiday thoughts are in the air – plans for gift-giving, friends and family get-togethers and food preparations. A joyous time of the year but also a time of overindulging. Celebrations often...
Eat, Drink, but Be Weary
By: Steve Bond, BScPhm, RPh, CDEY Food is an integral part of our lives. Every cell in our body requires nutrients and vitamins to survive and we have a deep social and spiritual connection to food. Like food,...
The Science of Diets – Steve Bond
Whether the goal is to reduce blood pressure, improve energy or lose weight, changing how and what we eat can have a significant impact. There are so many fad or gimmick diets designed to convince people that they...
Three Micronutrients We All Need
By: Daria Horbal, Pharm.D, RPh Micronutrients are vitamins and minerals that our body needs. Vitamins are necessary for energy production, immune function, blood clotting and other functions. Minerals play an important role in growth, bone health, fluid balance...
What’s in the Juice?
So, you go your local pharmacy, and you see a client drinking a cup of orange juice. They politely say thank you and leave. Since the 1960s, methadone has been used to help people with a condition known...
So Be Good for Good-Health Sake
We teach our young children that if they misbehave, a jolly old man in a red suit will see and send them straight to the naughty list. Those children will not reap the benefits of presents and instead will...
“Defensive Eating”- Staying Healthy This Christmas
The holidays bring a plethora of tasty treats and indulgences to tempt even the most pious among us. For some of us, the anxiety and burden of the holidays sends us to comfort foods to fill a void....
Water is Not Just For Hot Days!
Our muscles and brain consist of 75% water; our blood is 82% water! We need enough water to make sure our body functions at its best. It’s true, during hot summer days, our bodies lose a significant amount of...
What’s in the Juice?
There has been a great deal of publicity lately around methadone and methadone clinics. When you are at your local pharmacy, you may see a client drinking a cup of orange juice; they politely say “thank you” and...
