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Jacquelyn Johnston, M. Ed, Diabesity Coach You’ve heard about portion distortion, and how it leads to waistline caution. You probably also know that you are what you eat. And drink OK, OK, now that we’ve got the clichés out of the way maybe we can get into your reflection in the mirror. If you walk

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© Jacquelyn Johnston, M.Ed. Diabesity Coach Fred? Who’s Fred? And why is his birthday of any significance? Once upon a time, in 1841, a little boy was born in Ontario, Canada. He attended local schools and attended the University of Toronto, becoming a medical doctor, then a lawyer, and acquiring a PhD in science in

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Did you watch Dr. Oz’s show today? For those who couldn’t make it, a cowboy who had signed up for help agreed to be a vegan for 28 days. Dr. Oz offered Rocco a whole buffet of foods he could eat, and on trying the first item Rocco declared it “good!” Quite a change from

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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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Are you in a chair a lot? If you are, diabesity could creep up on you. Are you eating a lot of store-made lunches? Diabesity could be stalking you. Are you stressed out by the time you get to work? Dying to say TGIF? Diabesity could be your evil twin. I’m not trying to scare

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© Jacquelyn Johnston, M.Ed. This year many people on the North American continent have been attending Snow University. Places with normal amounts of snow got more, places that usually get away with one mild snowfall a year got so much they were housebound. We learnt how to recognise the signs of impending snow: a ceiling

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