EIM is a national program dedicated to showing how exercise improves the health of Canadians. With this new partnership, each year a student-led group will be tasked with promoting exercise as a form of medicine to their peers, and U of S health-care professionals at Student Health Services will prescribe exercise to some patients. Participant… Continue reading Exercise is Medicine: Participant 2 Update 3
EIM is a national program dedicated to showing how exercise improves the health of Canadians. With this new partnership, each year a student-led group will be tasked with promoting exercise as a form of medicine to their peers, and U of S health-care professionals at Student Health Services will prescribe exercise to some patients. Participant… Continue reading Exercise is Medicine: Participant 2 Update 2: Commitment
EIM is a national program dedicated to showing how exercise improves the health of Canadians. With this new partnership, each year a student-led group will be tasked with promoting exercise as a form of medicine to their peers, and U of S health-care professionals at Student Health Services will prescribe exercise to some patients. Participant… Continue reading Exercise is Medicine: Participant 1 Update 3: Sleeping Benefits from Exercising
Stress is a universal problem that many people deal with and stress affects people’s lives if people do not learn how to deal with stress. I was blessed to get the opportunity to attend a session which helped me eliminate my stress. In the session, there was a small group of about eight people and we sat down… Continue reading Student Event: A Walk With Nature
EIM is a national program dedicated to showing how exercise improves the health of Canadians. With this new partnership, each year a student-led group will be tasked with promoting exercise as a form of medicine to their peers, and U of S health-care professionals at Student Health Services will prescribe exercise to some patients. Participant… Continue reading Exercise is Medicine Participant 2 Update 1: The Beginning
My name is Alejandra and I’m a volunteer in the Healthy Lifestyle group. Since the second session of the Intuitive Eating Workshop, I’ve been identifying the emotions that lead me to eat and I have continued my path of not being as harsh to myself as I used to be when it comes to eating… Continue reading Student Event: Intuitive Eating Workshop Session 3: Putting it Into Practice
The healthy relationship group in my opinion is a successful part of university setting, because, it is helpful to everyone. As it tries to inform students about intimate relationships keeping in mind that sometimes students have a hard time dealing with friendships and even roommates. In my opinion this group of peer health is very… Continue reading Healthy Relationships Group
My name is Alejandra and I’m a volunteer in the Healthy Lifestyle group. Since the last session of this workshop my relationship with food has been -slowly but surely- changing. I’ve been trying to stop following diets and I no longer feel as guilty as I did whenever I eat a piece of cake or… Continue reading Student Event: Intuitive Eating Workshop Session 2: Expanding on the Basics
While you go through life, especially as a university student, you will realize that things never go how you plan. You may think you’re one step ahead, but then you get a poor grade on an assignment, or you may run into issues with a friend or significant other. These twists and turns in your… Continue reading Me Time
My name is Alejandra and I’m a volunteer in the Healthy Lifestyle group. I’m also a Master of Public Health student whose behaviour and mentality has been heavily affected by the diet culture since she was a child. I’ve been trying different diets since I was aware of the importance of physical looks to society… Continue reading Intuitive Eating Workshop Session 1: Establishing the Basics
