Dr. Kelly McGonigal, a health psychologist and lecturer at Stanford University, shares in a TED talk about how the attitude a person has towards stress can be a significant determiner of whether the stress has a negative or positive impact on health.
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In a two-part video series from the Dalai Lama Center, trauma-informed yoga therapist Nicole Marcia explores what it means to be trauma-informed and explains how supporting teens with a trauma-informed approach is strongly linked to Heart-Mind well-being; and introduces yoga as a potential tool for teens to use to manage stress.
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The new Canada Food Guide released in January 2019 uses a plate image, half filled with fruit and vegetables, one quarter with protein foods, and one quarter with whole-grain foods, alongside a glass of water, with the recommendation to “make water your drink of choice”. The guide stresses that “healthy eating is more than the foods you eat”, recommending mindful eating, cooking from scratch, taking time to enjoy food and eat in company with others, limiting sodium, sugars and saturated fat, using food information labels on packaged food, and being aware of food marketing.
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A post on the SportMedBC website on the topic of running while pregnant recommends other forms of exercise for expectant mothers who have not run regularly prior to pregnancy, but states that regular runners “usually find that they can run long into their pregnancy” as part of their prenatal fitness program.
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A 2013 UBC study has found that healthy birth weights vary among ethnicities, and that common baby weight charts which are based on infants born to Caucasian parents lead to misclassification of some Chinese and South Asian babies as small for gestational age.
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First Call BC has posted the poll results commissioned by CIBC and KidSport Canada that found that one-third of respondents indicated that their kids do not participate in organized sports due to cost.
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