• Meet our marathoners

  Two are elite running champions and two are relatively new to pavement pounding. But they all have one thing in common: They intend to run the 2012 Manitoba Marathon, either the full or the half. Meet Winnipeggers Mike Booth, Corey Gallagher, Ramona Turner and Kris Wood.

  View Full Column | 02/21/2012 1:00 AM | 0

• Dial-up dietitians ready with info, advice

  The impatient restaurant server towers over you waiting for you to order lunch, but even though you know you're holding up your table, you hesitate, unsure of what menu choice is the most healthful. Or perhaps your infant daughter shuts her mouth tight and throws a tantrum every time you try to feed her vegetables.

  View Full Column | 01/16/2012 1:00 AM | 0

• Gym dandy?

  Walk into any Winnipeg fitness facility in January and you're bound to spot scores of exercisers running the treadmill, circling the track and spinning the bikes -- determined to fulfil their 2012 health resolutions. Now is as good a time as any to join a gym and start the year with a new exercise plan.

  View Full Column | 01/9/2012 1:00 AM | 0

• Headlines and health

  From a pregnant runner giving birth just hours after completing the Chicago Marathon to the revelation that cellphones are as toxic as lead or chloroform, 2011 saw a plethora of mind-boggling health headlines. Here are a few of my top health news stories from the past year and how those developments will affect us in 2012.

  View Full Column | 01/2/2012 1:00 AM | 0

• Healthy new year

  You’re contemplating your upcoming resolution to make 2012 your most health-oriented year ever. But do you really know your good fats from your bad — your energy-boosting meals from your energy zappers?

  View Full Column | 12/26/2011 1:48 PM | 0

• Mission: somewhat possible

  Every new year you make another health-related resolution. And at the end of every year you wonder why you didn't succeed. You're not alone in your struggle to attain your health goals.

  View Full Column | 12/19/2011 1:00 AM | 0

• Better health under the tree

  You refuse to purchase another necktie, sweater or pair of earrings for the people on your holiday gift list this year. In fact, you'd feel a lot better knowing the presents you buy actually end up doing some good, instead of shoved into the back of a drawer somewhere.

  View Full Column | 12/12/2011 1:00 AM | 0

• Season's guiltings

  Book publishers know what you're thinking this time of year and they take full advantage of their opportunities. They know you feel guilty about not sticking to your promise to stay healthy this year. They know that you're worried about fitting into the swimsuit you plan to wear on your upcoming beach vacation. And they know the New Year is on its way and you're planning to start fresh with another set of health resolutions.

  View Full Column | 12/5/2011 1:00 AM | 0

• Exercise? Love to, but...

  YOU concoct them every day and they hold you back, preventing you from achieving your optimal health. They are exercise excuses -- the things you use to convince yourself exercising today is not a good idea.

  View Full Column | 11/28/2011 1:00 AM | 0

• A cruise that fits

  Kathie Gerrard never returns home from vacation with regrets about what she ate, how little she exercised or how many pounds she's gained. That's because the Winnipegger, for the past couple of years, has made it a priority to maintain her health when travelling.

  View Full Column | 11/21/2011 1:00 AM | 0

• Six for '12: Health-and-fitness trends we expect in the new year

  It was the 1980s and gym-goers everywhere were clad in leg warmers and Spandex tights trying their best to master the bouncy stretches their aerobics instructor was teaching them to do. Thankfully, fitness trends seem to be getting less faddish and more about common sense.

  View Full Column | 11/14/2011 1:00 AM | 0

• Beating with eating

  It's one of the fastest-growing health hazards on the planet. According to the Canadian Diabetes Association, more than three million Canadians have diabetes -- 90 per cent of which is Type 2, the kind that's preventable.

  View Full Column | 11/7/2011 1:00 AM | 0

• Fright delight

  Vancouver yoga teacher Siobhan Keely loves the heart-racing fear she experiences when watching a suspenseful horror movie. "I feel very tense, excited. I get tears in my eyes because it just gets so intense waiting for what's going to happen," says the former Winnipegger, who speaks of being frightened with a sort of lust.

  View Full Column | 10/31/2011 1:00 AM | 0

• Take your vitamins? Or not?

  If you've been wondering whether or not you should toss your vitamin supplements in the garbage, you're not alone. The public's confusion comes after news suggesting vitamin and mineral supplements are linked to early death and/or disease. The headlines are a result of a couple of studies released earlier this month. One survey of nearly 40,000 women published in the Archives of Internal Medicine found a slightly higher risk of death among those taking vitamin and mineral supplements.

  View Full Column | 10/25/2011 6:40 AM | 0

• Feeling well on the web

  The information superhighway is overcrowded with websites claiming to help you with your health. Even so, more than 70 per cent of home Internet users regularly research their health online, according to 2010 Statistics Canada results.

  View Full Column | 10/17/2011 1:00 AM | 0

• What's your nutrition condition?

  Your belly is bursting, your belt buckle feels extra tight and the taste of turkey, mashed potatoes and pumpkin pie still lingers on your tongue. Welcome to the morning after.

  View Full Column | 10/11/2011 1:00 AM | 0

• Feast smarter, not harder

  If  you believe the health experts, next weekend you’ll start to pack on the five obligatory pounds you’re set to gain between Thanksgiving and New Year’s. It’s a claim that makes sense if you’re the type to treat your Thanksgiving dinner as a free ticket to gorge on turkey, potatoes and pie until your pants button pops off.

  View Full Column | 10/3/2011 1:00 AM | 0

• Risk vs. reward: Extreme diet involves hormone injections

  Mindy Moss's customers are shocked when they see her. They want to know how the well-known Winnipegger got her newly svelte figure, which seemed to appear overnight. The answer? It happens every morning at Eyelet Dove, her popular Academy Road lingerie boutique. There, amongst the clutter of her tiny shop kitchen, she injects herself--usually in the abdomen-- with human chorionic gonadotropin, also known as HCG.

  View Full Column | 09/26/2011 1:00 AM | 0

• Get fit for fall

  MAYBE you regret not savouring the sunny days of summer. Or perhaps you just dread the idea of the changing season. Rather than letting the cooler weather get you down, why not use it to make a new commitment to get fit?

  View Full Column | 09/19/2011 8:58 AM | 0

• Making the grade

  It's supposed to give them the energy and brainpower to get through their school day. But it turns out that your kids' lunch could be zapping their energy -- and worse, even harming their long-term health.

  View Full Column | 09/12/2011 1:00 AM | 0

• Walking the walk

  Winnipeg's trail system is thriving thanks to volunteers who have jumped in feet first.

  View Full Column | 09/6/2011 1:00 AM | 0

• They choo... choo... choose the path

  RUFUS, a poodle-terrier, leads the way while his owner, Sarah Gensorek, gripping the dog's leash, follows on her in-line skates. Behind them comes, Seth, a smiling four-year-old, riding his red bike.

  View Full Column | 08/29/2011 1:00 AM | 0

• City? What city?

  Ask Janice Lukes about Winnipeg's Bois-Des-Esprit trail and she'll make it sound more exciting than an African safari. "You'd never ever know you're in the city when you're in this place," says the most outspoken trail advocate in town. "You've got owls, eagles, deer, beavers, muskrats, turtles the size of garbage-can lids.

  View Full Column | 08/22/2011 10:23 AM | 0

• Blazed by the trails

  Janice Lukes has flown to the most exotic places on Earth. And although the Winnipeg mother of three's globetrotting days are over, her past travels can't compete with the adventures she experiences every day in the unlikeliest of places -- on her own city's pathways. Most citizens here don't know much about the Winnipeg's trails -- hidden wilderness gems that meander through river-bottom forests, wind through open fields and snake along abandoned rail beds.

  View Full Column | 08/15/2011 8:28 AM | 0

• Screening the screener

  Dermatologists undoubtedly cringed when tawny Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bundchen shared her thoughts about sunscreen earlier this year with London's Daily Mail. "I cannot put this poison on my skin," the newspaper quoted her saying. "I do not use anything synthetic."

  View Full Column | 08/8/2011 3:16 AM | 0

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