Health
Health Challenge: The wrap-up
Sandra McCulloch / Times Colonist
Week 12 nutrition tips: Eating healthier meals is easy with a little pre-planning
Week 12 fitness tips: Mental balance key to good health
With driftwood and rocks, shores provide variety of terrain and props for fitness ...
Health Challenge ends with PISE event
The Times Colonist Health Challenge comes to an end on Sunday, but for the four women and two ...
It hasn't been easy for Steve Holub, but he’s hooked on fitness
As Steve Holub nears the end of the 12-week Times Colonist Health Challenge, he’s feeling pretty...
Week 11 fitness tips: Staying consistent during vacation and travel
When it comes to keeping fit and staying healthy, consistency is one of the most important ...
Week 11 nutrition tips: After workout, eating well means recovering well
You’re finished working out and now your body can take a break, right? Wrong! After you finish ...
Week 11 financial tips: Stay on top of your credit health
Just as achieving a good fitness level requires sticking to a regular, sustained exercise regime...
Trainers make getting in shape personal and effective
So you want to get in shape but don’t know where to start? Most private gyms and fitness ...
Health challenge notes: Hopeful signs after a rough start
I’m finally hitting my stride and feeling great following initial delays at the start of the ...
Week 10 fitness tips: When you get stuck in routine, think FITT
At some point in your fitness journey you will find that you are “stuck.” You may not be able to...
Week 10 financial tips: Save on taxes by donating to charity
It’s common knowledge that you get a tax credit for charitable giving, but did you know that you...
After near-deadly asthma attack, Ardath Gill took control of her disease
Ardath Gill has had asthma all of her 69 years. In September 2009, a really bad attack nearly ...
Healthy eating and 5K walks are key to participants' success
Our TC Health Challenge participants are entering week nine. Today, we check in to now two of ...
Week 9 fitness tips: Sticking to your fitness routine
As many of you move through your fitness program, it is important to keep yourself motivated by ...
Week 9 nutrition tips: Wise words to motivate you
Consider these motivational quotes about good health. Take the one(s) you feel resonate best ...
Week 9 financial tips: Investigate RESP to maximize savings
When it comes time to save for our children's post-secondary education, many of us choose to ...
Ken and Dawn exercise to live well as long as they can
Ken and Dawn Fyke haven’t slowed down in retirement — they’ve sped up. Ken, 72, a retired ...
Week 8 fitness tips: Add variety to workout to stay motivated
It’s easy to find yourself in a situation where you’re always doing the same strength routine at...
Week 8 nutrition tips: Reward yourself with occasional treat
If you have taken the past eight weeks to build a solid nutrition strategy and have stuck to it,...
Week 8 financial tips: Beware of joint ownership when planning your estate
When estate planning, many of us decide to skip creating a will and simply give our preferred ...
Fitness parties popular for marking milestones
NEW YORK — From spinning birthday celebrations to pole-dancing bachelorette bashes, North ...
Staying the course, despite two fractures
There’s nothing like multiple fractures to make a workout more interesting. I was asked ...
Week 7 fitness tips: Work hard but rest hard, too
After working on good exercise habits, some people really get into it and join a variety of ...
Week 7 nutrition tips: Eat your veggies
Whatever you do, don’t tune this weekly tip out as something that you’ve heard before. There are...
Week 7 financial tips: Retirement planning is key
Good retirement planning is a cornerstone of long-term financial health. Advice on planning...
Steven Holub shakes off sedentary life and fast food
The Times Colonist Health Challenge is giving Steven Holub a much-needed boost. Coming into...
Week 6 nutrition tips: Knowing difference between portions and servings helps ...
First, we must differentiate “serving” from “portion.” A serving is a set amount of one ...
Week 6 financial tips: Maximize wallet wellness
When we start a new fitness regime, many of us turn to a personal trainer to help us achieve our...
Week 6 fitness tips: Know what parts of your body get tight
Last week, we discussed self myofascial release, which is one method for decreasing your risk of...
Ex-football player wants to introduce a ‘new me’
Nathan Robinson is well on his way to losing 100 pounds over the three months of the Times ...
Week 4 fitness tip: TLC for hard-working muscles
Now that you’re getting into a bit of a routine and forming good exercise habits, it’s important...
Week 4 nutrition tip: Get the facts on dietary fats
The body needs dietary fats for a number of functions. They are necessary for absorption of the ...
Busy Langford mom Raechel Gray finding time for change
Raechel Gray is one busy woman. The 38-year-old Langford woman is mother to 13-year-old ...
Week 3 fitness tip: Spread protein consumption throughout the day
Protein has many roles in the body — it’s the building block of muscle, bone, hair, skin and ...
Beautician Suzie Spitfyre finds her own beauty
Suzie Spitfyre loves everything in life to excess. After loving food a little too much for 13 years...
