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Healthy Lifestyles
Offers information on how to maintain a healthy lifestyles through fitness, nutrition, and body image.
SummerActive is an initiative designed to help Canadians improve their health by encouraging and supporting their first steps towards regular physical activity, healthy eating, living a tobacco-free lifestyle and participating in sport activities.
Source: Government of Canada
Canada's Guide to Healthy Eating and Physical Activity does not replace the current Canada's Food Guide to Healthy Eating and Canada's Physical Activity Guide to Healthy Active Living. It is a combination of important points from both Guides into one document, which promotes the benefits of eating well and being active and helps you make wise choices everyday.
Source: Public Health Agency of Canada
Medical science now has evidence to support something most of us have known intuitively for awhile - happiness, including feelings of joy, pleasure, contentment, and our physical health are linked.
Source: Canadian Health Network
Getting rid of emotional baggage is an important component of overall health.
Source: Canadian Health Network
For many Canadians, summer is a time packed with fun activities. Summer is also a time to be wary of many preventable injuries and conditions. In this section, you will find information and tips on how to get the most out of the season.
Source: Health Canada
Defines personal wellness as a satisfaction with one's state of mind and being. Elaborates on the physical, psychological, and spiritual components of wellness.
Source: Canadian Health Network
The Healthy Living Strategy aims to improve the health of Canadians and reduce health disparities. This Integrated Pan-Canadian Healthy Living Strategy site provides background information on the strategy's ongoing development including roundtable reports, links, consultation workbook and a glossary.
Source: Public Health Agency of Canada
Health Canada's Cosmetics Program has the mandate to protect the health of Canadians by minimizing the risk associated with the use of cosmetics marketed in Canada. The Program defines and communicates requirements for the manufacture, labelling, distribution and sale of cosmetics, and evaluates compliance.
Source: Health Canada
Fifteen frequently asked questions about cosmetics.
Source: Health Canada
Cosmetics and grooming aids are part of almost every Canadian's daily routine. Therefore, it is important to know that cosmetics can cause unexpected results, even health risks, if they are not used correctly.
Source: Health Canada
Laser technology is being used for an increasing number of cosmetic treatments. Examples include hair reduction, skin resurfacing for wrinkle reduction and/or treatment of acne scars, removal of pigmented blemishes (e.g., age spots and moles), and treatment of vascular lesions (e.g., port wine stains and spider veins). Lasers are also used to remove tattoos.
Source: Health Canada
The purpose of the guidelines is to describe infection prevention and control practices for personal services, including tattooing, ear/body piercing, and electrolysis. The guidelines are based on an assessment of potential or documented evidence of infection risk posed by skin piercing procedures and the principles of infection control to manage the risk.
Source: Public Health Agency of Canada
Some studies suggest that many teenagers and young adults have already experienced permanent hearing loss caused by exposure to excessive noise from a variety of leisure activities.
Source: Health Canada
Exposure to ultraviolet A and B radiation can cause sunburn, damage to your eyes, and other health effects, including an increased risk of skin cancer. If you choose to use tanning lamps, you should be aware of the hazards involved so you can take steps to minimize your risk.
Source: Health Canada
Hypothermia and frostbite can be avoided by following these guidelines.
Source: City of Toronto
This winter, make sure you're dressed when you step outside. Wearing at least a few layers of the proper kind of fabrics is essential to your comfort and well-being. That's especially true for farmers, construction workers, outdoor enthusiasts and anyone else who spends a lot of time outside in the cold months. They're at risk for hypothermia, a condition in which your body temperature drops because it's losing more heat than it can replace.
Source: HealthyOntario.com
Winter sports and pastimes give us a chance to enjoy the outdoors with family and friends, get involved with others in the community, and maintain our health. And if we keep a few basic things in mind, we'll all be able to "slide" safely through winter.
Source: Health Canada
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Source: Canada Health Portal
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