Category: Preventive Health

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© Jacquelyn Johnston, M.Ed., Diabesity Coach The vaccination has started! There aren’t enough vaccines! Children and pregnant women to get shots first! Long line-ups outside vaccination sites! How many more exclamation points do we need before we make up our own minds? The headlines are ramping up the fear, and all the sheeple who are

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© Jacquelyn Johnston, M.Ed., Diabesity Coach Best letter in the Richmond papers this week: a certain Dana expressed relief that the city had finally passed the by-law banning the use of pesticides on private lawns and government-owned land. At least I now know that I can go for a power-walk in the park without coming

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Jacquelyn Johnston, M.Ed. Diabesity Coach More news from Obama’s plan to create a health care system that’s based on prevention rather than reaction. A couple of days ago I wrote about how the President’s speech had underlined the need for preventive health care. Well, lo and behold, there is a place that is already doing

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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

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© Jacquelyn Johnston, M.Ed. Have you seen that ad on TV of a woman wheezing and sneezing, just about to give up the ghost, while a jingle in the background sings “shall I go or shall I stay”? Next up, you see a magic product that is going to make her feel so well she

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