OPINION: Mending your mental health in minutes
Dealing with our mental health issues isn’t an impossible endeavour. It can take as little as 15 minutes of commitment a day.
Dealing with our mental health issues isn’t an impossible endeavour. It can take as little as 15 minutes of commitment a day.
With falls being the main reason that seniors lose their independence, a provincially sponsored program is trying to step up.
Part of a new study by the University of Guelph and UBC, the program emphasizes the positive aspects of outdoor exercise.
Located on King Street in Uptown Waterloo, the facility’s staff focuses on client experience, rather than simply achieving results.
BY MATTHEW EVANGELISTA Therapy is important to a healthy mind, but just as important is a healthy diet and plenty of activity. Research has shown that exercising can improve mental health, and improved mental health can result in a healthy lifestyle. “A lot of times it is those around them who notice before they do how much exercise is changing them for the better, especially with activities of daily living … Continued
BY JUSTIN FORD DrumFIT is an exercise program that has been growing and expanding over the past eight years, and for good reason. It is a program for the body and mind that’s been offered at schools as a physical education activity – and still is. But now – with people constantly asking where they can do DrumFIT outside of school walls – president and chief executive officer Danielle Sherbo … Continued