With any diet advice, it is vital to build a reflective awareness of the messages of your body and intuitively choose the best routine for your situation. Here are 3 natural ways you can integrate healthy habits to improve your diet instantly. Chew! Chewing breaks down food to enhance the extraction of nutrients that your body needs. Incorporate set meal times throughout the day. Three meals are often the average for most individuals. Adhere to this natural rhythm until your body signals it’s time for a change. Go for a walk! The movement of walking often aids with digestion.
Wealth & Well-Being
Common Behavioural Finance Biases. Behavioural finance biases can impair our financial decision-making when they aren’t addressed. Here are two more examples of such biases: 1) Clustering illusion – The tendency to see patterns in random events. It’s important to keep in mind when watching stock price movements that what happened in the past few days doesn’t necessarily imply anything about the likely direction of the next move. 2) Recency – More weight is given to the latest information received, and less weight to older data. Our decision-making becomes biased by the order in which information is presented to us, which can lead to unwise financial decisions.
Regaining Mobility & Independence
Our day-to-day lives often involve activities that require us to venture out into public, whether it’s going to the bank, attending medical appointments, shopping, or spending time with friends and family. For those who experience mobility challenges, simple errands can be more difficult and less convenient, especially when having to rely on others for transport. Mobility scooters can help you or your loved one regain a sense of independence and control as errands become easier and access to more destinations becomes possible again. Regaining mobility and independence can simplify our daily tasks and offer us more choices.
Frustration-Free Denture Repairs
Super Glue is a great adhesive for toys and shoes but NOT for your dentures! It will build up around the broken edges that you’re trying to adhere and make the denture difficult or impossible to fix professionally. This can potentially leave you with an uncomfortable or unusable denture permanently! Being water soluble, your saliva will dissolve the glue and make it ineffective. Due to the harsh chemicals it contains, Super Glue can also cause gum inflammation or allergic reactions. Denture materials and super glue are simply not a good combination. Save yourself the frustration and have repairs done professionally.
Foods for Brain Health
The best foods for supporting memory and brain function are those that encourage good blood flow to the brain, and research suggests the following foods may help keep your brain sharp and improve your cognitive function, memory and alertness. 1) Broccoli, cabbage, and dark leafy greens. Enjoy in salads, wraps and stir-fries. 2) Walnuts. Can be added to salads or oatmeal, or just eaten on their own. 3) Berries and cherries. Can be eaten fresh as a snack or added to oatmeal or baked goods. 4) Omega-3 fatty acids. Can be found in seafood, algae, and fatty fish.
Ask The Expert
Q: With back-to-school time happening, I was thinking of getting my kids eyes examined to see if they’re OK. Or is there adequate screenings at school?
A: I believe screenings are a great idea, and I am very grateful to these useful programs for catching some children’s eye problems that would likely have gone undetected for too long. However, I’d still recommend young children come in for a thorough exam of visual function and ocular health, ideally before preschool, to ensure treatable problems are detected as soon as possible.
Class IV Laser for Chronic Pain
Chronic Pain? Acute Injury and a lot of swelling? Try Class IV Deep Tissue Laser which kick starts your body’s own healing capacity 2-3 times! It’s clinically proven by the World Health Organization to reduce pain and restore function to tissues. Injuries need blood flow and circulation to heal and laser does just that. Common ailments that have proven successful are: muscle strains, tendon injuries such as rotator cuff tears, as well as joint sprains. Even acute swelling or bruises can be treated with laser to accelerate the healing process and decrease scar tissue formation!
National Day of Truth
The long summer days are winding down, students have headed back to school, and the leaves are soon going to start to change colour as we welcome September. A month that starts and ends with important days of recognition, Labour Day on September 5th and the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation on September 30th.
At the Golden Circle we acknowledge the Indigenous traditional territories represented by Treaty 6 and 7 as the land the Golden Circle is situated on and pay tribute to the many First Nations, Métis, and Inuit peoples whose footsteps have marked these lands for centuries.A goal of the Golden Circle is to respect and work together with Indigenous and Métis peoples in building a welcoming and inclusive community and we want to especially highlight the importance of September 30th.
The National Day for Truth and Reconciliation was established as a federal statutory holiday through legislative amendments made by Canadian Parliament. On June 3, 2021, Bill C-5 (National Day for Truth and Reconciliation) received Royal Assent. This day fulfills the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Call to Action #80, and is to serve as a day of remembrance, reflection, action and learning.
There were 140 federally run Indian Residential Schools which operated in Canada between 1831 and 1998. Over the course of that 167 years, some 150,000 Indigenous children were ripped from their families and forced to attend church-run residential schools, where many suffered physical and sexual abuse, malnutrition, and neglect. More than 4,000 are believed to have died. Public commemoration of the tragic and painful history and ongoing impacts of residential schools is a vital component of the reconciliation process which we all have much to learn about.
Since 2013, September 30th has been known as Orange Shirt Day, a day to recognize the tragic history and long-standing effects of residential schools. Commemorated by the wearing of orange shirts based on Residential School survivor Phyllis Webstad’sstory of her first day at residential school when her brand new shiny new orange shirt, bought for her first day of school by her grandmother, was taken from her upon arriving at the St. Joseph Mission Residential Schoolas a six-year old girl.
We will be wearing our orange shirts on September 30th and taking some time to reflect in honour of Phyllis and her fellow Residential School Survivors as well as in memory of those children who did not make it home.
Aromatherapy for Better Sleep
Aromatherapy is often used to relieve stress, but did you know that it can also help with symptoms of sleep disorders? It can be beneficial for insomnia, which sometimes occurs as a result of stress, emotional strain, or psycho-emotional overload. Essential oils such as lavender, ylang ylang, Roman chamomile, bergamot, cedarwood, and marjoram can be used alone or in combination to restore a good night’s sleep. The important thing is that the essential oils be natural and of high quality, since lower-quality and synthetic oils don’t have therapeutic properties and may cause unwanted side effects like allergies and irritation.
Community Event
World Wellness Weekend Friday Sept 16 “LIVING WELL TOGETHER” 6th time worldwide and for the first time in Manitoba. 4,000 participating venues in 140 countries will be geolocated on the World Wellness Map for millions of people to find fun, free, inclusive group activities, classes, and workshops nearby, to enjoy with friends and family.
FREE activities that are going to happen in Manitoba. Register online World-Wellness-Weekend.org. Your World Wellness Weekend Ambassador for Manitoba,
Rooslana Zodek
Palliative Care Conference
Join Palliative Manitoba at its 30th Annual Provincial Palliative Care Conference, at Canad Inns Destination Center Polo Park on September 15 & 16. Experience our unique blend of keynotes, educational sessions, and workshops grounded in palliative care. Learn new approaches, successful models and innovations advancing your professional skill set, helping strengthen your organization. Keynotes include, Award-Winning Medical Educator, Writer, Musician and Podcaster, Dr. Jillian Horton. Erin Davis, Author of the book Mourning Has Broken: Love, Loss and Reclaiming Joy. The Waiting Room Revolution Podcasters, Dr. Hsien Seow, and Dr. Samantha Winemaker. Canadian Virtual Hospice will host a multicultural panel sharing stories and wisdom about grief.


