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© Jacquelyn Johnston, M. Ed. It’s usually an uneventful Toronto-Vancouver flight, one I took a couple of times a year when I lived in Ontario. Just under 5 hours. This one was a little squishy. You’ll be surprised where diabesity rears its rotund head. I was alone at a window seat (oh, bliss) until the
© Jacquelyn Johnston, M.Ed.My friend Myles works in a third floor office and Sandra, in a second floor one. They had been working for the same company, and never met till one Friday evening after-work do two years into the job. Colleagues were nudging and winking so much Sandra and Myles had to ask why.
© Jacquelyn Johnston, M.Ed. Do you like trying out the foods put out in tester booths in the supermarket? As I chatted with the lady doing the display yesterday I thought: goodness, do people realize that all that food in boxes is contributing to the national diabesity epidemic? In the supermarket yesterday and the offerings
© Jacquelyn Johnston, M.Ed. Diabesity? What’s that? People ask me when I introduce myself. “Simply the meeting place of obesity and diabetes”, I explain. Maybe you know someone who’s got it. That wouldn’t be too surprising, since I walked quickly down a mall the other day and counted 10 folks visible to the naked eye!
© Jacquelyn Johnston, M.Ed. Is your city trans-fat free? In Canada, the British Columbia Provincial Government has declared a ban on trans fats in restaurants. A wise move, wouldn’t you say? Fabulous in the effort to reduce diabesity. One restaurant owner says that he has always followed his grandmother’s policy of cooking potatoes with olive
© Jacquelyn Johnston, M.Ed. I was reading an article in the Vancouver papers about obesity and work woes. Apparently, obese employees tend to miss more work and feel more job stress. Have you heard anyone talk about stress at work? Just yesterday I was talking to a young woman, the mother of two, who is