Power Lattes! Want to add some power to your lattes this fall? Try Botanica’s Certified Organic functional mushroom and herb infused hot chocolate. A healthy alternative to a delicious warm fall drink. Upgrade your afternoon or evening ritual with a modern take on a traditional favorite to support a healthy stress response and relaxation. Made from a whole food blend of cocoa, dates, reishi, chocolate, and coconut. Available at Red River Coop Southdale location.
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Halloween Safety for Hearing-Impaired Children
Halloween is fun for many children. Wearing costumes, collecting candy and spooking others is always a great time. Halloween for hearing impaired children, however, can be difficult or even dangerous. Here are some quick, easy ways to make Halloween fun and safe for your children and grandchildren so that they can enjoy everything Halloween has to offer!
• Avoid masks. Wearing a mask can dislodge or block hearing aids.
• Using reflective tape or flashing items are a great way to have children stand out during the darker hours of trick-or-treating.
• Instill the importance of always using crosswalks to get across streets.
Community Event
Community Event
Grand Opening! Join Us At Red River Coop Grant Park for our Grand Opening Oct 5th 2019! 10am-6pm Featuring the New Health and Wellness Department! Come down and meet your Health and Wellness Advisor Dayna.
Samples, prizes, and more!
Fall Raking Tips
Colourful fall leaves are beautiful, but cleaning them up can be a chore! These tips may help reduce injury while raking. Wear proper shoes with good grip to prevent slipping, as well as well-fitting gloves to avoid having to grip the rake too hard. Use proper yard tools and keep from over-reaching to help prevent strain on your back. Switching sides with the rake allows you to share the work between sides. Make sure to bend with your knees when picking up the leaves and bags. Breaks are also helpful, so take a rest when you need it. Happy raking!
Moving Through Fear
Anything new and big that requires major change in our lives often comes with some fear attached. Starting a new relationship or ending one that is no longer working, having a baby, changing careers, navigating an illness or death or taking a leap into an unknown path all bring up deep fear. There are two kinds of fear; the one that paralyzes us and keeps us stuck and the one that awakens us and guides us into our new selves. We often need to grieve our losses, creating space for what’s to come by taking small, manageable steps. Embracing life’s uncertainty instead of controlling it. Fear accompanies anything worth doing and reminds us we are on the edge of our comfort zone as we muster the courage, vision and action to walk the bridge between new and old.
Are You Fatigued?
You may need vitamin B! Lack of vitamin B in your regimen may impact your physical health in different ways. Hundreds of bodily biochemical reactions are supported by B-vitamins, and deficiency in vitamin B can lead to fatigue and lethargy. A B-complex vitamin is a mixture of eight essential B-vitamins that are critical to metabolism at the cellular level. Isotonix Activated B-complex helps to maintain healthy levels of serotonin, increase energy and decrease stress. It also delivers metabolically active forms of several vitamins and minerals in isotonic form, ensuring that your body receives and uses vital nutrients quickly and efficiently.
Small Town Feel
When Assiniboine Pharmacy opened over 4 years ago, the aim was to bring the small town feel to the big city. The premise was and still is simple – make sure people they serve feel at home. For owners Ryan Buffie and Kris Petersen, both pharmacists who met at the University of Manitoba in the late 1990s, the idea of big, corporate pharmacies void of vital relationships and the subsequent trust it forms between pharmacist and patient, wasn’t where they wanted to be. Assiniboine Pharmacy offers a wide range of services, from free prescription delivery, a VIP program and multiple ways to refill prescriptions, including online and even via an online app.
Redox Signalling Molecules
“All disease begins with damaged cells.” Dr Gary Samuelson. PhD. Redox Signalling Molecules are native to our bodies. As we age production of these molecules slows down, resulting in aging skin, fatigue, disease, weight gain to name a few consequences. Increasing proper Redox Signalling Molecules in your body is the most important thing you can do for your health. Your body is the most complex communication network on earth. These molecules communicate with each other to repair or eradicate damaged cells for optimal healthy living. Isn’t it time for you to live your best life?
Seniors and Stress
Chronic stress is harmful to people of all ages, but its impact on older adults can be particularly severe, increasing the risk of age-related diseases, hastening cognitive decline, and even triggering falls. Stressors that are common amongst the elderly include loss of control, personal loss, declining health, financial worries, personal safety, and loss of independence. To reduce stress, get regular exercise, eat balanced meals to ensure the mind and body are properly fueled, and ask for help. Talking with a trusted family member, friend, or healthcare professional, at the very least, releases pent-up stress and may even lead to a solution.
Pet Health
Healthy Guts in Pets. When pets are young, it is important that the gut barrier be strengthened. Young animals are born with leaky or open guts. This allows absorption of immune system proteins from their mothers’ milk that will protect them from disease. Young pets always need deworming, and sometimes prescriptions, to kill off parasites. The gut remains slightly open to protein absorption throughout life, and so veterinarians use an animal’s excrement to judge and manage reactivities to different foods. Healthy excrement is usually firm, unless the animal is dehydrated. Always consult your veterinarian for the best strengthening programs and medications for your young pets.
Benefits of Quitting Smoking
What happens after you quit smoking?
After 1 day: the risk of heart attack begins to decrease.
After 2 days: a person may notice a heightened sense of smell and more vivid tastes as their nerves heal.
After 1 month: in as little as one month, the person’s lung function begins to improve. As the lungs heal and get stronger, the capacity will improve. Former smokers may notice less coughing and shortness of breath, and snoring may even improve.
After 1 year: after one year of quitting, a person’s risk of coronary heart disease is reduced by half.
