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With a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease, early treatment is possible to delay the progression of the disease.
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Guide Health: Drugs for your brain’s health

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Everyone worries about memory loss, but keep in mind that losing keys is not memory loss. Everyone misplaces their keys sometimes! The Alzheimer’s Society’s 2020 numbers have 569,600 Canadians living with a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease and almost two-thirds are women, but women live longer than men and Alzheimer’s disease is a disease of older […] Read more
“The results are both gratifying and profitable,” says Grandin, whose book generates insights even for lifelong farmers.
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Temple Grandin’s Guide to Working with Farm Animals

Guide Books Review: Safe, Humane Livestock Handling Practices for the Small Farm

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Temple Grandin’s Guide to Working with Farm Animals: Safe, Humane Livestock Handling Practices for the Small FarmBy Temple GrandinStorey Publishing, 192 pages What if there was a way to get inside your animals’ brains to figure out what they’re thinking and why they act in the (frustrating!) ways that they do? You can do exactly […] Read more
Author and trauma counsellor, Catherine Clark.
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Get more resilient

By transforming adversity into resiliency, these strategies build a better you

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Reading Time: 5 minutes During the pandemic, trauma counsellor Catherine Clark became intrigued by the idea of creating a Mental Health Resiliency Roadmap to help address the deep emotional pain, anxiety and burnout that families, businesses and communities were experiencing. Based on key findings in neural, cognitive and behavioural science, Clark wanted the resiliency roadmap to help individuals meet […] Read more
It’s important to ask yourself how you want to fill your days, and what will be fulfilling for you.
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The way to retire

Especially on the farm, planning for a happy retirement really does a make a difference

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Reading Time: 7 minutes Here’s an unpopular question. When are you going to retire from the farm? This is often a taboo topic because it’s hard to know when you’ll be ready, and just as hard, if not harder, to know what it means to retire. To a farmer, retirement could read like a death sentence. Or does it […] Read more
Samsonite makes some of the best suitcases on the market and these two new carry-ons are winners — one hard, and the other, soft-sided. Both are backed by the company’s famous 10-year-warranty, come with two built-in TSA compatible locks, USB port and battery pocket and directional spinner wheels. Outline-pro, the hard side, $375. D’Lite Underseater soft side is small enough to fit under the seat in many planes. $350
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PHOTOS: Happy travels

Today’s farm life means more business and pleasure trips, so check out these gift ideas

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Reading Time: < 1 minute Santa may be able to set off on an around-the-world trip with nothing more than a few carrots for the reindeer and Rudolph’s glowing nose for guidance, but our travels are a little more complex. Below, we’ve shopped the market in search of great ideas for the travellers in your life, whether they are frequent […] Read more
All medication certainly needs to be in original containers with individual labels. That includes non-prescription drugs as well as prescription ones.
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Guide Health: Travelling with medication

Take a copy of your prescriptions. This will help at the border, and also if your medications get lost

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Reading Time: 2 minutes For the past several years, no one has been travelling, but now that it seems safer to do so, many people are visiting friends and relatives or just vacationing away from home. For anyone who takes medication regularly, passing through security at airports or even answering border security agents’ questions at a land crossing can […] Read more
Book covers, clockwise from upper left: ‘Everything is…’ (Supplied), ‘Difficult Conversations’ (Penguin Books), ‘Farmer’s Office’ (Supplied), ‘Think Like…’ (Supplied).
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Great books to give as a gift for Christmas

Guide Books Review: With the season just around the corner, here are my four ideas for the farm-business reader on your list

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Everything is FigureoutableBy Marie Forleo If there’s one thing farming is lousy with, it’s those “head scratchers” that stop you in your tracks until you figure things out. Forleo’s book is based on the premise that every challenge has a solution and that everything is “figureoutable.” Her approach helps you counter the thoughts that act […] Read more
Want your team to function at an even higher level? Focus on their mindset, not on their behaviour ... really!
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The Outward Mindset

Guide Books Review: How to Change Lives and Transform Organizations

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Reading Time: 3 minutes The Outward Mindset: How to Change Lives and Transform OrganizationsThe Arbinger InstituteBerrett-Koehler Publishers Do you ever think about how you think? I know it sounds flighty at first but it really is important because the way you think — whether it’s with an outward or an inward mindset — can determine the success of your […] Read more
This on-farm marketer shares some of the lessons she’s learned following the launch of her latest venture.
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A tasty education

This Ontario farm family uses cooking classes to help close the consumer gap

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Reading Time: 4 minutes With strong interest from the public in knowing more about where their food comes from, some farms are offering on-farm cooking classes. This past year Thames River Melons near Innerkip, Ont., began offering a Harvest Brunch Experience that is part tour, part workshop, part cooking class and part meal. “It is very interactive and is […] Read more
When a particular medicine is in short supply, it’s important not to stockpile because this will compound the shortage.
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Guide Health: Drug shortages

A multiple of factors can lead to a shortage in medications

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Reading Time: 3 minutes The news these days often brings us reports of drug shortages, but sometimes we don’t hear about them until we’re at the pharmacy counter, expecting to pick up our prescription. At one time drug shortages were uncommon, but we should keep in mind that, historically, there were fewer drugs than we have today, as well […] Read more

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