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While activities such as walking and gardening are good, a muscle strengthening program is also necessary to preserve muscle, bone and balance.
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Live your best life with exercise

A targeted exercise plan will help ensure you stay healthy today and tomorrow

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Reading Time: 4 minutes Most people hope to spend their later years living independently and doing the things they love. Unfortunately, it doesn’t just happen. All of us may need to invest in strength training today to make that vision a reality in the future, says Dr. Lora Giangregorio. According to Giangregorio, falls are the number one cause of […] Read more
Getting from good to great
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Getting from good to great

Guide Books Review: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don’t

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don’tBy Jim CollinsHarper-Collins Most business books are written for non-farm businesses. The advice in this book, however, is generally transferable to a farm business context. After all, as I frequently explain to non-farmers who want to understand how a modern farm is run, business […] Read more
Guide Health: The ache of osteoarthritis
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Guide Health: The ache of osteoarthritis

Individuals who use their joints a lot — i.e. farmers — can be at higher risk

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Osteoarthritis is the most common type of arthritis. According to Arthritis Canada, about one in seven adult Canadians are affected. Slightly more women than men are affected, although it is unclear why. It is also thought that metabolic diseases may contribute because of their association with inflammation, although this too is unclear. Osteoarthritis is considered […] Read more
It’s unlikely you’ll get a great sleep every night, so it may be more realistic to aim for a good sleep five out of seven nights.
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Get a better sleep

Take this sleep advice at night to be more productive through the day

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Reading Time: 5 minutes You can’t fall asleep. You lie there tossing and turning. You look at the clock and you think, “Uggh … I have to be up in a few hours. I’m going to be so tired tomorrow.” Sound familiar? You are not alone. Surveys indicate as many as half of us struggle with insomnia. Surveys, such […] Read more
A good fluid intake is essential, and water is ideal.
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Guide Health: Sweating. Not pleasant, but necessary!

Sweating plays a critical role in regulating body temperature

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Reading Time: 2 minutes We all sweat during hot weather, especially if the humidity is also high. In fact, though, some of us do sweat more than others. Should you be concerned? On average, individuals have two to four million sweat glands made up of a combination of eccrine, apocrine and apoeccrine glands depending upon the body location. Children […] Read more
The Farm Whisperer
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The Farm Whisperer

Guide Books Review: Secrets to Preserving Families and Perpetuating Farms

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Reading Time: 3 minutes The Farm Whisperer: Secrets to Preserving Families and Perpetuating FarmsBy David Specht, with Taneil SpechtAdvising Generations LLC If you’re comfortable with whatever plan the government might have in store for your farm business in the event of your untimely death, or if you don’t care whether the farm stays in the family, of if you’re […] Read more
Guide Health: Nasal sprays and allergies — just a squirt!
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Guide Health: Nasal sprays and allergies — just a squirt!

Nasal sprays are good options as they deliver medication directly to nasal tissues

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Statistically, seasonal allergies (technically known as allergic rhinitis) affect about one in four Canadians, although many more individuals may be affected; they just don’t seek treatment. Also known as hay fever, seasonal allergies occur when plant pollen is breathed in and the body’s immune system is activated to fend off the foreign particles or allergens. […] Read more
Drop the Ball
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Drop the Ball

Achieving More by Doing Less

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Reading Time: 3 minutes I was going to start this column with“This one is for you, ladies!” as the main audience for the book is certainly women. But honestly, as Tiffany Dufu’s book Drop the Ball: Achieving More by Doing Less suggests, everyone could benefit by occasionally dropping that ball — especially during these harried, upsidedown times. It’s particularly […] Read more
Meeting the growing need for food banks
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Meeting the growing need for food banks

Canada’s food banks are finding innovative ways to cope with escalating demand

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Reading Time: 5 minutes Food bank usage increased more than 20 per cent nationally during the pandemic, with children now making up about a third of food bank users. That’s according to 2021 HungerCount, a report by Food Banks Canada which says a volatile combination of higher food prices, rising housing costs and low incomes has created a “perfect […] Read more
Making impossible conversations possible
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Making impossible conversations possible

Guide Books Review: How to Have Impossible Conversations: A Very Practical Guide

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Reading Time: 3 minutes How to Have Impossible Conversations: A Very Practical GuideBy Peter Boghossian and James Lindsay (Da Capo Lifelong Books) If you have never had a difficult conversation, you are not human. Whether it’s with parents, siblings or kids, or even with those distant family members you only see once a year, it just happens. No one […] Read more

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