Heartfelt Holiday Recipes: Dietitians Share Their Favourites
Even after a cardiac event, even if you have type 2 diabetes or high blood pressure, you still deserve to enjoy beautiful holiday food. So…
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10 Healthy Swaps for Your Heart at Thanksgiving
Healthy. What a loaded word it is. What does a “heart-healthy” Thanksgiving look like? You might be surprised at my answer. Although I’m a dietitian, when…
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7 Tips for Navigating the Holidays After a Heart Event
Less energy but more on your calendar… Piles of treats you feel you can’t have… Friends and relatives bearing unsolicited advice… Happy Holidays! A heart…
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Eating for Heart Health on Vacation
Lately it feels like most of my clients are troubled by what summer travel has done to their eating habits. Are you feeling this way…
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What to Pack for Heart Health at the Lake
We started our summer, as so many Canadians do, with a week at the lake visiting family. That’s actually my picture above, not a stock…
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Samosas: A (Short) Short Story
I’m still catching up after last week’s deep dive on bread and heart health. Perhaps you too from reading it? So hopefully you’ll forgive me…
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Festive Food for a Small Table
Full disclosure: It’s December 19 and I’m doing my Christmas meal planning here. Some people are smart enough to do this two or three weeks…
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Adventures in Camping Cuisine
Like so many people, 2020 has been our year of camping. Prior to this we might have gone once a year, for a couple of…
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Need an Energy and Mood Boost Through the Holidays? Try This.
Raise your hand if you need more energy right about now. Or a mood boost? The end of the year is packed with so many…
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12 Days of Food Pushers
A few weeks after people download my guide to eating after a cardiac event, I ask them what they find hardest about eating now, so…
