Thursday May 29th / 2008

Thursday May 29th / 2008

12:10: The Health Roundup with Jay McQueen.


12:13: Get out your shovels! Wellwood will be celebrating the groundbreaking of Juravinski House, the Centre's new community-based site on Hamilton's west mountain, this afternoon at 2:30 p.m. (at the corner of Chedmac and Sanatorium.)
Guest: Jane George, Executive Director, Wellwood.

12:20: Our favourite local chiropractors are back in the house.
Guests: Dr. Kathryn Wheatley and Dr. Jim Lamontagne, Regent Health and Chiropractic Centre over on Locke Street. (in-studio)

12:35: Diabetes and foot care go hand in hand. Or, is that foot in foot?
Guest: Dr. Perry Mayer, Mayer Institute for Advanced Diabetic Foot care.

12:45: Rexall Pharmacy segment.
Guest: Hilton Silberg
Relaxation and Downtime;

One of the greatest lifetime gifts we can give ourselves is the sense of how to keep our bodies healthy and most importantly downtime. Health lesson plans should include proper diet, nutrition, exercise and how to incorporate relaxation into our every live. Health lesson plans can include meditation, stretching and relaxation techniques. Try keeping stress to a minimum. Relaxation is important to psychological and physical health. Our bodies and minds are not functioning well when we work too much and live under highly stressful conditions. Everyone needs downtime, time to relax. You can accomplish relaxation by either taking frequent short breaks, or long breaks, like an hour in the evening for a walk. Extended breaks can include the week-end! If you ignore your stress level and do not take down-time for yourself you could pay the price and develop health problems. Most health experts recommend a plan for daily relaxation. Relaxation skills help in controlling the negative or damaging effects of long term stress. It can also reduce negative habits like taking drugs, drinking and smoking to manage stress.
Relaxing Activities:
• Personal enjoyment; relaxation should involve an activity that you enjoy. The goal here is to what helps you relax.
• Relaxing exercise; consist of sitting in a quiet room in a comfortable chair, eyes closed and alternating tensing and relaxing different parts of the body, this technique is called progressive muscle relaxation.
• Streaming relaxations; a media tool which can be audio or visual which can send you “virtually” to far away places, plug in the headphones and stress relief methods.

Get a Handle on Stress!
Learn what your trigger points are and how best to cope with them, or address it.
If we can understand the cause, we can figure out whether our existing coping strategies will be sufficient in handling the stress effectively. Stress comes along with being human; there are many of us who are pushed to the threshold daily. You should understand what is considered “normal” pressures or not. Learn how you can reduce your stress. Remember sometime’s it’s the simple things that have the most impact.

Rexall #0202 Blog Reporter Nadine Janacek