It’s the beginning of the Labour Day weekend and along with the many families getting ready for the first day of school, I’m sure that there are just as many people planning on getting out of the city for the next few days; myself included.
As soon as the clock strikes 4pm, I’m planning on dashing [...]
Social/Global Health —
Category Archives: Social/Global Health
What’s your city’s traffic personality?
Someone’s got a case of the Mondays!
This morning, a particularly difficult Tuesday morning (since yesterday was a holiday, so it felt even more like a Monday), I sat at my computer at work staring blankly at the screen.
My to-do list had grown again since last Friday, and all I could think about was how much I’d rather still be in bed. [...]
What do you want?
It’s been about 6 weeks now since I’ve started my Circus School classes and I’m really loving being able to jump around, test my physical limits and re-learn old tumbling skills. Like I mentioned in my post about about “Never Going to the Gym Again!“, after being away from any sort of gymnastics training for [...]
Healthy restaurant dining: fact, fiction and finances.
I had heard about this vegetarian restaurant a little while ago from a friend who couldn’t stop raving about the great food. I’m always up for trying something new (bonus if it’s healthy!), and so decided to give it a try.
I’m not sure if my friend was just a great salesman, or if I [...]
The boy who cried “obesity!”.
A couple of days ago there was a news story describing how elementary schools in the UK are considering sending warning letters home to the parents of overweight children about the health-related dangers of being overweight or obese.
Nobody is denying that obesity has become a significant health crisis in the western world; and one that [...]
To Gardasil, or not to Gardasil?
So I realise that the HPV debate has been raging in Canada for quite some time, but I feel like I’ve only just come to some of my own realizations and conclusions.
I think I have been reading up diligently on the news updates that are released about Gardasil, the new HPV vaccine that has been [...]
What do you mean “everything on the Internet isn’t true”?
I received an email today from a friend that said “FYI - Cancer” in the subject line. Inside was a long list of “Cancer Updates” supposedly published by Johns Hopkins Medicine. As I went through each item one-by-one, I immediately began to wonder about the validity of several, if not all, of these [...]
Why do we do what we do?
Whenever we come to a crossroads in our lives and must decide on a new path, a change of paths, or just a slight detour, there are inevitably several considerations that we take into account before making our final decision.
I have recently started to wonder what types of considerations we make and what finally makes [...]
Soccer: the universal language.
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 the [...]
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 [...]