An Olympic Medalist’s #BestAugustEver
By Dr. Rachelle ViinbergOlympic Silver Medalist, three-time Olympic rower and naturopathic doctor Dr. Rachelle Viinberg shares her plans for her Best August Ever. Share your plans to make the most of the end of summer, and you could win $500 in Genuine Health products.
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Your Best August Ever
Make this your Best August Ever! Whether its more relaxation, more fitness, more healthy eating – or doing away with bad habits and attitudes – we’d love to hear about your plans to add lasting transformation to the list of things to savour about the end of summer.
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Life, Interrupted
Health and fitness are all about staying proactive…and, let’s face it, being lucky. Sometimes, life events interrupt our best efforts. Experiences out of our control, disruptions as petty as a common cold, keep us out of the game. But there are occurrences that have the potential to de-rail us for more than just a few days.
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The Surprising Effects of Candida
By Cara StatzCandida, or yeast, is commonly associated with skin irritation and itchiness, particularly in the nether-regions. But candida affects 60 per cent of ‘healthy’ people. Symptoms of candida vary in severity, but there are some surprising symptoms that can have an impact on our everyday lives.
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Iron Deficiency: More Common Than We Realize
By Cara StatzIron deficiency is the most common nutritional deficiency and a leading cause of anemia in North America. Let’s take a closer look at the symptoms of anemia, as well as ways to increase your iron levels, and important key facts about iron absorption.
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Healthy Glowing Summer Skin
By Cara StatzHealthy glowing summer skin: we all want it, but do expensive creams and magic pills really work? Here are some simple easy steps that have proven to be effective, efficient and won’t leave your wallet crying.
The natural alternatives listed below are great natural alternatives to help give skin that beautiful natural glow that will get you noticed this summer!
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Introducing…
AHAA Living is thrilled to introduce personal trainer, holistic practitioner, competitive athlete and kinesiologist, Cara Statz, as our newest weekly AHAA Living contributor. Expect expert insights into all things active and healthy with Cara’s holistic mind-body approach to fitness and wellbeing. From enhancing athletic performance, to maximizing recovery, to healthy skin from the inside out, stay tuned for Cara’s weekly insights, right here in the AHAA Living community.
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Fed Up: Documentary Review
People constantly say they are fed up about things: the traffic they drive through to commute to their jobs; their strained relationships with people, money and their health; the government who seems to operate in a completely different vortex than the average person… etc. On average, we hear people complain day in, day out, but rarely do we see action.
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Morning Energizer Blueberry Smoothie
By Joy McCarthyThis is a meal in a cup! I always feel balanced and energized for the day when I start my morning off with this smoothie. When blueberries are not in season, I just swap for a different berry or use frozen berries.
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Superhero Skincare to the Rescue!
We’re definitely cup half full types. Though, when we hear a company make claims, like you will not find any chemical preservatives, artificial fragrance or color, phthalates, betaines, sodium lauryl/laureth sulfates, phosphates, silicones, EDTA, glycols/PEG’s, parabens, gluten or petroleum based ingredients, our curiosity piques. Let’s face it: hundreds of companies spend more time greenwashing than they do sourcing natural products.
So when we saw the Ella’s Botanicals tweet asking for product reviewers, we jumped at the chance. A couple of days later, we received a care package that we could skin-test.
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Footloose!
Most of us are almost doing all the right things, life-maintenance of every sort, except fine tuning our feet. Yes, that’s right, the two pivotal things at the bottom of our legs. Those two silent and obedient beauties that don’t complain when they spend entire days on end trapped in ski boots, or pounded on mile after mile for entire ultra-marathons. Let’s be honest, most of us take them very much for granted – until we need to do something about an ingrown toenail that has started to create performance issues.
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Protein Bars, Shmotein Bars
McCarthy’s descriptions of each ingredient get to the core of what their functions are, why our bodies don’t actually need these functions, why they’re unhealthy, and how marketers get away with promoting these bars as ‘healthy’ when in fact there are no health-promoting properties in most of their ingredients.
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Why Didn’t We Think of That???!!!
WARNING: After you watch this video you will be in a ‘why didn’t we think of that’ haze, and you may develop a temporary obsession with watching this promo clip over and over…
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Music Can Help You Achieve Anything!
Outside of the box office, many of us spend countless hours pairing music with our activities. If we’re stressed out, trying to make a deadline, we might listen to instrumental jazz or classical. If we’re training indoors on our bike trainers, we’ll definitely be loading up the playlist with explosive raps and rock to help energize us from start to stop. If we’re at the starting line of a competitive race, we’ll often hear the race producers pumping upbeat tunes.
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Success 101
For those of us struggling to juggle it all, the good news is that the achievers have a secret, and it’s a secret most of them don’t hide. Ready for it? They have mentors; they have support teams; they read inspirational books; they take leadership courses; in a nutshell, their success is a team effort.
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