Treat Your Brain Well, Your life depends on it

If you can use an ATM machine, set your alarm clock and remember why you set it, write a cheque, go back to work after a coffee break, and remember to pick up groceries on the way home, then the chances are you don’t have a brain injury. The things that you and I do almost without thinking can cause severe difficulty for those with traumatic brain injuries....

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Get Fit with HIIT Better workouts in less time

Less time on the treadmill with greater health and fitness results? It may sound too good to be true, but according to recent research studies, less is more when it comes to workouts that are based on high intensity interval training (HIIT)....

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Joint Healthy Exercise, Easing osteoarthritis

More than 100 types of arthritis exist, affecting people of every age, physical condition, and ethnicity. According to the Public Health Agency of Canada, about 60 percent of Canadians with arthritis have difficulty participating in recreation or leisure activities, though keeping active is key. Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common form of arthritis. It affects the joints in the body; particularly...

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Solutions to Male Depression

If you’re a man with symptoms of depression or chronic fatigue, and have been offered an antidepressant, you may want to consider checking your hormone levels first. Recent evidence shows symptoms of depression and fatigue in men may be linked to declining adrenal, thyroid, and sex hormones, namely testosterone. After about the age of 40, men increasingly experience symptoms of fatigue and...

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The Truth About Sports-Enhancing Supplements

Here’s the lowdown on the most popular sports supplements. Caffeine Claim: improves athletic endurance Research: enhances performance of trained athletes when low to moderate doses (3 to 6 mg/kg) are taken in supplement form enhances performance when taken 15 to 30 minutes before exercise Benefits high-intensity exercise such as soccer and rugby Risks: can cause insomnia, nervousness,...

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10 Exercise Benefits for Men

Listing the benefits of exercise sounds a bit like the start of a late-night infomercial for some gadget that sounds too good to be true. Feel happier? Live longer? Stop memory loss and help prevent cancer? But it is true … and all this could be yours for just three weekly workouts of 50 minutes each! While weight loss is an important result of exercise for many people, exercise has far broader...

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Stress-Busting Exercises - Stop, breathe, & stretch

Stress, for many people, is something to dread. For others, it is the means to their existence. While stress is a natural occurrence, and our response to it has helped us evolve and survive through the centuries, too much stress on a regular basis can be detrimental to our health. Over 30,000 years ago the Cro-Magnon man needed his body’s response to stress to be swift, especially when hunting...

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The Fast and the Furious

After 15 minutes of inching forward during the morning commute, it’s almost your turn to merge when a driver cuts in front of you. Your pulse races, you lay on the horn, and mutter a few choice words. Driver alert: aggressive driving behaviour negatively affects your physical and psychological health. While there is no consensus on a definition of road rage, Leon James and Diane Nahl, professors...

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