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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 Back when I was still teaching school the kids were the world’s finest experts at having parties. Any excuse was good: if the team won, we had a party. If a major project was finished, we had a party. And what did the party consist of? Here’s a sample

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© Jacquelyn Johnston, M.Ed. Diabesity Coach. Big news today: 40% of our kids are obese. Then there were pictures of kids who have difficulty moving around, and pictures of the same kids scarfing down supersized burgers washed down with mega-sized pop. These kids are at great risk of pre-diabetes, and might already have been diagnosed

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© Jacquelyn Johnston, M.Ed.Did you watch the news today? I’m surprised it was news that one in four kids in Canada is overweight. It’s higher in some other countries. We have had nearly 20 studies documenting the effects of 20 minutes of exercise every school day. Yet the results of these findings indicate that the

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© 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

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© 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

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