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By Åke Blomqvist
Following passage of the Ford government’s Bill 60, Ontario’s ministry of health now has the option to contract out to independent clinics the provision of certain kinds of health-care services normally provided in hospitals. Its opponents have cast the bill as favoring “privatization” and as a threat to the Canadian model of public health care. An emotionally charged television commercial commissioned by the Ontario Public Service Employees’ Union (OPSEU) conjures up a dystopian future where stone-faced capitalists in dark suits push a gurney with a teary-eyed post-surgery patient through dim hospital corridors and…
Author: Irma
Just Talk to Me – PHE America
(Article 5 of 5)
People with physical disabilities hold limited positions as scholars, teachers, or leaders in physical education, recreation, and sports. Perhaps the reason is that the field is flooded with able-bodied people who think they know best. But do they? Michael Oliver, imminent writer, and scholar argued that people with physical disabilities should be the only ones in the field of disability studies because they have a bodily experience with disabilities. The following five-part article series shares the perspective of a scholar in the field of sports disability who has his own physical limitations. In each article, he…
7 Every Day Foods That Are Making You Gain Weight
Many commercial nut butter brands add oils, sugars, and artificial additives to enhance flavour
What we eat directly influences our health and even our weight. Eating nutritious foods can ensure your stay fit. However on the other hand, certain foods can lead you to gain weight. You might be consuming these foods without realizing how bad they are for your health. Read on as we discuss foods that are causing you to gain weight.
7 Foods you eat regularly that are causing you to gain weight:
1. Fruit juices
While it is commonly perceived that fruit juices are healthy due…
A healthy lifestyle reduces the risk of developing severe liver disease
In a recent study published in metabolism, researchers investigate the correlation between a healthy lifestyle and Life’s Essential 8 (LE8) scores in new-onset severe non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD).
Study: A healthy lifestyle, Life’s Essential 8 scores and new-onset severe NAFLD: A prospective analysis in UK Biobank. Image Credit: Explode/Shutterstock.com
Approaches to mitigate the effects of NAFLD
NAFLD is a significant cause of hepatocellular carcinoma and cirrhosis, as well as cardiovascular disease (CVD). However, the relationship between new-onset NAFLD and a healthy lifestyle remains unclear.
The American Heart Association (AHA) created Life’s Simple 7 (LS7) in 2010, which offers patient-centered…
Which Could Save Me More Cash?
SmartAsset: Dental savings plan vs. insurance: Pros and Cons
Health insurance doesn’t cover your teeth. Your teeth can cause pain, get infected and need treatment, just like any other part of the body. But when it comes to actually getting treatment the standard health insurance doesn’t cover it. Instead, you need specialized coverage to pay for a trip to the dentist’s office.
The specialized coverage comes in two main forms. The first is dental insurance. This is standard insurance that covers most of the cost of treatment in exchange for a monthly premium and co-payments. The second is a dental…
Pickleball is bad news for health insurance stocks, UBS says
A sport that is making many older Americans more active could be backfiring for health insurance companies, according to UBS. Pickleball is a tennis-adjacent sport that has exploded in popularity since the Covid-19 pandemic, attracting millions of new players and celebrity investors. But UBS analyst Andrew Mok said in a note to clients Monday that the sport’s growth and popularity among seniors could contribute to rising health-care spending. “After analyzing the growth in pickleball as well as the nature and frequency of related injuries, we conducted a bottom-up analysis of medical costs. In total, we estimate $250-500 mn of medical…
Halle Berry Bomb Pops – Maria Mind Body Health
It’s my dear friend Halle Berry’s birthday on August 14th but with the 4th of July coming soon, I thought I must share my special recipe for Halle Berry Bomb Pops this month!
As many of you know, I had the great pleasure of making friends with the beautiful Halle Berry and she wrote the forward for my Sugar Free Kids cookbook!
I wanted to write a very special keto recipe for Halle Berry’s birthday so my boys and I created Halle Berry Bomb Pops which is a recipe found in my Sugar Free Kids cookbook!
Halle Berry is the…
Quinoa Beet Salad – JennifersKitchen
Let me be very clear. I do not like beets. I’ve spent over fifty years disliking beets.
I’ve tried them boiled (gag-inducing), roasted (almost tolerable, but no), raw (the additional chewing required just prolongs the misery), and picked (where’s the bathroom?).
To me, beets taste like garden dirt laced with a little bit of sugar. Interestingly, there is validity to that perception. Beets contain a naturally-occurring compound called geosmin, and geosmin gives beets their dirt-like . . . er. . . earthy flavour.
Some people like this earthy flavor.
I’m not one of them.
Just as interesting – at least…