Exercise is Medicine November 2019

Blog #1 – Change in Attitude after starting EIM Participant 1: E.B. In my experience with the Exercise Is Medicine program so far, I have had one consultation about nutrition and one about exercise. The nutrition session has helped me think about what I eat on a day-to-day basis. The discussion has led to intuitive…

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…

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…

Exercise is Medicine: Participant 1 Update 3: Sleeping Benefits from Exercising

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…

Student Event: A Walk With Nature

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…

Exercise is Medicine Participant 2 Update 1: The Beginning

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…

Student Event: Intuitive Eating Workshop Session 3: Putting it Into Practice

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…

Healthy Relationships Group

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…

Student Event: Intuitive Eating Workshop Session 2: Expanding on the Basics

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…

Me Time

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…