Soccer-mania has recently hit Canada in a way that I never would have imagined. With the FIFA-U20 World Cup being held across the country, people seem to have been hit with a potent maladie only hinted at during the World Cup held last year. The clusters of people surrounding the huge Reuters TV screen at [...]
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What do you want?
Just a quick link to an interesting study on the changing values of new employees today. A steady paycheque just doesn’t seem to cut it with the new recruits of today’s workforce. This new generation of workers expects employers to support them in achieving worklife balance. Employers take note! Perhaps it is that we have [...]
Is your job worth it?
Remember when you loved your job? Oh wait…Not loving your job now would imply that you did, at some point, enjoy your job and what it contributed to your life. As a new recruit into the working world, I admit that I had idealistic dreams of finding my dream job; a job that would allow [...]
A high fat meal means more than an extra workout.
One Big Mac surely won’t hurt? Some new research from the University of Calgary is telling us that it will. Apparently after a high fat meal, our bodies become more prone to stress. We react with increased “blood pressure, [raised] heart rates and [increased] resistance of blood vessels” to situations that wouldn’t normally invoke such [...]
Laughter: life’s best medicine.
In looking for the simplest stress busters and easiest pick-me-uppers, I have come across something that is deceptively simple and surprisingly effective. It’s something that we all used to do as children. But, like many things we used to do as children, we seem to think we have outgrown it. I’m talking about laughter! Laugh [...]
And the score is cold/flu:1, you:0.
I spent two weeks fighting off a cold that had threatened to knock me out if I didn’t stop and pay attention to my body. I was doing pretty well at keeping the cold at bay when one work day last week rendered all of my efforts moot. Sometimes no matter how hard you try [...]
Stress, stress and more stress.
Lately, I notice myself feeling stressed; sometimes very stressed. I don’t necessarily think that I am stressed about anything in particular, but it is there gnawing at my nerves from the moment I open my eyes in the morning until I close my eyes at night. Despite having studied the physiology behind the stress response [...]
My world is your world too.
El Niño was the first time that I had really become aware of Mother Nature’s presence. Though what it is exactly, I couldn’t tell you. In recent years, however, it seems that Mother Nature’s cries for attention can no longer be ignored: Ice storm of ’98, Indonesia’s tsunami of 2004, the rapidly melting polar ice [...]
Successful weight loss essentials.
For many of us, losing weight is a matter of being able to fit into those old pair of jeans or into that new dress we bought “for when we lose weight”. But no matter how much you may want something, it doesn’t make the road to success any easier. So let’s be honest here. [...]
When ignorance isn’t bliss.
Yesterday a story about an 8 year-old boy, Connor McCreaddie, in the UK who may be taken away from his mother for being severely overweight hit the news. According to health and social authorities, the boy, weighing in at 14 stone (approximately 89kg or 196lbs), required an immediate intervention to save him from the abuse [...]