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Top Health Articles
Does Your Child Have Asthma? By Carolyn Eagle
Does Your Child Have Asthma? What is asthma? Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease of the airways. People with asthma have extra sensitive airways (breathing passages) and certain triggers such as dust, pollen, smoke, or cold air can cause those airways to become red and swoll... Read More...
Food Allergy or Food Sensitivity? What's the Difference? By Carolyn Eagle
Food Allergy or Food Sensitivity: What’s the Difference? Health Canada estimates that food allergies affect as many as 5-6% of young children and 3-4% of adults in westernized countries. Many Canadian schools have banned nut products due to the increase in severe allergies in recent years, an... Read More...
Most Difficult Communities to Find a Family Doctor in Ontario: The Top 100 By Carolyn Eagle
Health Media Today, Canada’s leading network of health and wellness websites, has compiled a list based on their own internal database and statistics (primarily population, number of doctors and number of AVAILABLE doctors) of the 100 most populated cities and communities across Ontario. The... Read More...
Top 10 Most Difficult Cities to Find a Family Doctor in Ontario By Carolyn Eagle
Despite Government of Ontario statistics that by 2014 more than twice as many doctors will be graduating from Ontario’s medical schools than in 2003, many in Ontario find themselves unable to locate an available family doctor in their community. Health Media Today, Canada’s lead... Read More...
Eating Disorders: Beyond Anorexia and Bulimia By Carolyn Eagle
According to a 2002 survey, 1.5% of Canadian women aged 15 – 24 years had an eating disorder(Government of Canada. (2006). The Human Face of Mental Health and Mental Illness in Canada 2006). Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa are the terrifying face of eating disorders, with some high profil... Read More...
Eating Disorder Symptoms By Health Media Today
Information from cmha.ca Our society's preoccupation with body image is reflected in the fact that, at any given time, 70% of women and 35% of men are dieting. More seriously, a 1993 Statistics Canada Survey reported that in women between the ages of 15 and 25, 1-2% have anorexia and 3-5% have bu... Read More...
Encouraging Literacy for the Whole Family By Carolyn Eagle
Every year in Canada we celebrate Family Literacy Day in January. The kids come home from school with bookmarks and maybe a free little book. They have an assembly to discuss reading or maybe have an author come in to speak. There is no disputing that literacy is important and that it should be enco... Read More...