Pass the Salad
Jesus knows family suppers aren’t always easy. “We’ve lost the time to sit down and eat,” says Gillian Crowther, PhD, a retired social anthropologist and author of “Eating Culture.” She says we’ve also lost the “nicer cultural side of exploring what cuisine means to people.”
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Nutrition and Mental Health
This is the third installment in the series on mental health.
“You know, they’re called comfort foods for a reason” says Popi Kasvis is a faculty lecturer at McGill University’s School of Human Nutrition in Montreal.
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Exercise and Mental Health
This is the second in a three-part series on mental health. Last month’s article discussed mindfulness and meditation; this installment focuses on exercise and its important relationship with mental health.
Advice from Nicholas Fabiano, MD and Clara Hughes, a six-time Olympic medalist who opens up about battles with severe depression.
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Meditation, Mindfulness, and Mental Health
This is the first in a three-part series about mental health. Part one focuses on mediation.
I talk to Robert MacFadden, PhD, and Akshaya Vasudev, MD.
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This Is So Meta
Can you be gifted an efficient metabolism at birth? Or be cursed with a slow metabolism that, like a rusty engine block, churns out more smoke than speed? Or can you craft one to your liking with proper fuel and maintenance?
The answer is as complex as the metabolism itself.
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Who Built This Joint?!
Dr. Pascal-André Vendittoli, a professor at the University of Montreal and naturopathic doctor Amanda Capasso talk about bone loss, and managing the natural wear and tear as our bodies get older.
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How To Date Your Diet
“It’s society. They think of perfection in one way, and [we] think that if [we’re] not doing that then, ‘I must be totally wrong.
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A Smorgasbord of Support Is the Key to Healthy Eating
Julia Skiadaresis is a registered social worker in Toronto. She discusses patterns that develop in early childhood or adolescence which may influence our poor eating habits later in life.
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Digging For The Roots Of Our Food
Loren Taves, owner of Taves Family Farms explains the health and environmental importance of local farms. Ann Higgs, general manager at Atlantic Grown Organic, the wholesale branch of the Schurman Family Farm on Prince Edward Island, talks about how COVID-19 made people even more aware of their food sources.
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Predators, Prey, And A Balanced Buffet
Koppert Canada’s Melissa Hargreaves talks to me about how they use specific predators, like Persimilis mites, to reduce their need for pesticides.
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Love by the Bagful
For Alive Magazine, I talk to psychotherapist and occupational therapist Ann Kerr, and registered dietitian Leslie Beck about the pleasures and pitfalls of emotional eating.
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From Alive Magazine: My Love/Hate Relationship with Food
In this web exclusive for Alive Magazine, I talk to my sister about how her personal relationships resulting in a life-long battle with weight, and a poor self image.
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Isolation: A Gateway to Disordered Eating?
During Covid-19, changes to one’s body may be a normal part of a changing routine. However, emotional distress, despondency, or obsession are – and should be treated as – red flags of a more serious problem.
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Postpartum Depression: Early Symptoms and Preventive Measures
“One of the biggest predictors of whether women get postpartum depression and anxiety is if they had something not only during pregnancy, but before pregnancy as well. For women who struggle with prenatal depression and anxiety, as many as fifty to eighty percent continue to have symptoms postpartum.”
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Alive Magazine – Falling Into a New Routine
Changing careers, or working toward physical or psychological self-improvement can, at a minimum, be daunting. But not all changes have to be all-encompassing or immediate.
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From Alive Magazine – Is Improvisation a Cornerstone for Dealing with Dementia?
When you are a parent of a child, and also a child of a parent afflicted with dementia, how do you plan for what’s coming? Sometimes, you just don’t.
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Caring for Caregivers – Expert Advice on Coping with Dementia
Though these diseases can manifest themselves through myriads of different symptoms, the caregivers’ challenges (and stresses, and fears) are remarkably similar. While families are often thrown into a state of panic by the realization of what steps must be taken to protect their parent, medical staff who specialize in caring for patients and their families…
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CTV News Channel’s Culture Shock Panel
Here is a panel discussion on CTV News Channel with Todd van der Heyden, Hadiya Rodrigue, Jason Rockman, and me. Topics include: Male birth control pills are closer to becoming a reality Inner Circle – A dating app designed by a team of moms #DeleteFacebook : Is it time to dump the platform due to…
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Alive Magazine – “Uprooted! Supplanting what I thought I knew about plant-based diets”
What happens when a meat-loving father has his diet (and his morality) questioned by his animal-loving daughter? He gets a quick lesson in veganism.
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Who’s the Boss? (Could it be I’m learning responsibility from them??)
Teaching your children responsibility is one of the backbones of parenting. Why, then, is it so difficult to know how much is too much, and how soon is too soon? Sometimes the hardest thing for an adult to do is to let their child grow up.
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Tips for Transitioning Your Child to High School
On BT Montreal, we discuss some tips for helping your pre-teen transition from elementary school to high school. This can be a challenge for both parents and children who may be nervous and concerned for what lies ahead :
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BT Montreal: When is the Right Time to Become a Father?
Discussions about women’s biological clocks are fairly routine. Interestingly, studies have begun to pop up showing that men, too, experience decreasing fertility sooner than we first thought. When asked, men also admitted to feeling deep regret about choosing career over parenthood.
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Brain Development: What Happens in Utero Doesn’t Stay in Utero
A new study suggests that, despite giving birth to an apparently healthy baby, the conditions in utero may have lasting effects which can be noticed once a child reaches adolescence.
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BT Montreal: How Does Your Family Deal With Gender Stereotypes?
A recent article in The Atlantic, quotes a study which suggests a strong percentage of girls still feel more comfortable with men in roles of authority: politicians, heads of student councils, CEO’s, etc. In this interview on City TV’s Breakfast Television, we talk about why that trend is so hard to break, and why it…
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BT Montreal – Social Skills School-Age Kids Should Know
This morning I sat down with Elias Makos of BT Montreal to talk about some of the common social skills your kids can brush up on this summer. As with many things, I feel the best way for parents to teach is to lead by example.
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BT Montreal: Dad-chelor Parties: A Trend or a Cheat?
Is this a justifiable romp, or just an excuse to leave your pregnant partner at home while you enjoy Vegas? As we debated, we realized…a big part of the problem was with the name!
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“Questions Parents Ask” Column Now Translated Into French
J’ai probablement regardé qui appelait et choisi de ne pas répondre parce que j’étais trop fatigué. Trop fatigué pour me remémorer tous les événements de la dernière année méritant d’être racontés à un ancien camarade de classe.
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Interview with CTV Montreal’s Mutsumi Takahashi – A Father’s Role During Pregnancy
I recently had a chance to sit down with Mutsumi Takahashi on CTV Montreal’s news at noon. She had recently read my book “What Do I Do While You’re Pregnant?”, and I was pleased to answer her questions:
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On CTV’S THE SOCIAL – How Involved Should Men Be In Their Partner’s Pregnancy?
I had a great debate about a dad-to-be’s role during his partner’s pregnancy, and after birth with the whole panel on CTV’s The Social. The pulled no punches!
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Montreal’s Global TV: What Do I Do While You’re Pregnant?
This morning’s chat with Global Montreal’s Jessica Laventure.
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