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February is Heart Month. It’s the perfect time to commit to doing something good for your heart in 2012. A recent Heart and Stroke Foundation survey reveals that we are not making time for healthy choices, which is contributing to the grim reality that cardiovascular disease is the #1 killer of women, and the cause of one in three deaths here in Canada.
The Heart and Stroke Foundation is urging Canadians to make time now, so you can have time later. The short-term goal is to have us take one million heart-healthy actions by the end of February 2012 as part of their Make Death Wait awareness campaign. Please consider joining us! And remember, 2012 is a Leap Year – so that means we have 29 days this month to come up with even more of those action steps. (more…)
When my mother was pregnant with me in 1950, mothers-to-be were very afraid of weight gain. Back then, doctors had spent at least two decades warning pregnant women against gaining too much weight, believing that excess pounds would lead to dangerous conditions like 
What would you do if you checked into your hotel room and found there a welcoming plate of freshly baked chocolate chip cookies waiting for you? I know what I’d do – I’d have a cookie. And then, because it tasted so darned good, I might eat another. And then, while I unpacked my suitcase, maybe just one more. And then, particularly if I were feeling tired or stressed or hungry, I might even say to myself: “Oh, what the heck! It’s been a hard day – and I deserve this little treat!” – and there goes the rest of that plate of cookies.
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