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Student Voices | Healthy Benefits

  • Sedentary Lifestyle and Your Health

    A lack of regular physical activity can lead to a variety of preventable lifestyle related diseases.

  • Starting Anew

    The start of the New Year prompts many of us to commit to changes in our health, our lives, and our practices. What changes have you committed to this year?

  • Summer Weight Loss: Three Phases to Lasting Success

    So you’re overweight and you want to be healthier and look sexier but you are discouraged. You have tried to lose weight in the past and while you have had some success in the beginning, the results never seem to last. So why do people have such a hard time losing weight? While the specific answer is different for everyone, chances are you are stuck in one of the following three phases.

  • The health benefits of having an Animal Companion

    For years animals have provided comfort and companionship to individuals. Recently Animal Assisted Therapy has been introduced in the healthcare field to expand these benefits to those in need.

  • The Importance of Sleep – from personal experience

    With a hectic class schedule, studying, writing assignments and exams and everything else, one does not have much time for left over for other things. For that reason, a lot of things that would otherwise seem important, such as sleep, often get put on the back burner. However, from personal experience sleep should remain a top priority even when workload becomes heavy, especially during exam period.

  • The Joy of Quiet

    Throughout history society has been “distracted” by technology. Has this distraction become too much?

  • The many facets of gluten-induced illness

    Differences between celiac disease and gluten sensitivity and the potential benefits of avoiding gluten from your diet.

  • The Spirit of Giving

    The holidays are a time to reflect on what the year has brought us and how we can give back to the world around us.

  • Vitamin D: A Naturopath’s Favorite Supplement

    Spring is upon us and so is the sun! How important is Vitamin D to your health?

  • What’s BPA (Bisphenol A) doing in our food?

    Bisphenol A (BPA) is found in our food supply even though Health Canada added BPA to Canada’s toxic substance list in October 2010. What is BPA and why is it so bad for us?

  • Why Breastfeed

    Tony discusses the benefits of breastfeeding

  • Yoga: friend or foe?

    It has been hailed as a cure for many diseases, stress reduction, renewal, healing, and anti-aging just to mention a few. However, like anything else, there is a darker side of yoga.