THE OTTAWA VALLEY’S HEALTH MAGAZINE HealthMattersFREE! FALL 2017 Eating With A Happy Heart: Advice from the authors of Looneyspooons Local Canadian Experts Health Feature Facts Section: FOOD! Kids Lunch Church Suppers Hacks Around The County! Saving Silas: Meet a little boy who was The Food born with the will to live Crossword In honour of Canada’s 150th, we Canada 150 are trying to attract 150 aircraft to fly-in to the airport on one day! FLY-IN Come Join Us!

Thi s goi is g n to be a ver y o c ay. ol d September 23rd | 10am-3pm This is a FREE event to attend. Pembroke & Area Lunch is available for purchase. AIRPORTT Plus: Ry-J’s, Aircraft Simulator, 49 Years in Aviation. and Canadian Forces aircraft on display!

Easy parking in the Expo 150 field across from the airfield. Seating available at the airfield. Meet local and visiting pilots who are flying-in on this special day.

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Pembroke & Area AIRPORTT 49 Years in Aviation. FROM THE PUBLISHER FALL 2017 A Letter From Audrey Reader’s handwritten letter says it best about the Health Matters vision as we complete our fifth year After our last issue, I received a handwritten Ottawa Valley, even lifetime residents are letter in the mail from a woman named Audrey. unaware of! You do an excellent job of It was so compelling that I realized I could not bringing them to light, so more residents can do a better job than she did for the Publisher’s use them to make their lives better. Thank you section in this issue. So here it is, in Audrey’s so much for doing this vital job. It is deeply own words: appreciated.

Jennifer Layman, Publisher “I had to write you after reading your Keep up the good work and Happy Canada Spring/Summer 2017 issue. I read it “cover to Day! We Canadians have so much to be cover” and have kept it to refer to for grateful for.” FALL 2017 resources. It is your best issue ever! 2113 Petawawa Boulevard, So Audrey, thanks so much for taking the time Pembroke, Ontario K8A 7G8 Please continue to include the feature to write us. You have captured exactly what Phone: 613-732-7774 describing what Canadians have discovered or our vision is with Health Matters - to make [email protected] invented that impacts our world. Kids don’t people aware of resources right here in our www.ovhealth.ca learn this in school and it is so good to read own backyard that they can use to live about it. Makes us feel proud to be Canadian. healthfully. facebook.com/ovhealth

Contacts: I also loved the local feature about all health We will do our best to keep the Canadian Jennifer Layman, Publisher and wellness issues, as well as local area health facts as part of our issues beyond the Kallie Doering, Coordinator retailers and providers. I didn’t know about Canada 150 year and thank you for recognizing several of the programs highlighted in this our local healthcare professionals who make No part of this publication may be reproduced without our consent. issue. I usually read the current issue at my this magazine possible. While every effort has been made to Rowan’s Pharmacy while waiting for my refills. ensure accuracy, we cannot be held I had to take this issue home to keep. So much Wishing for a long, warm fall! responsible for any error or info! omissions that may occur. Designed and produced by Forward Thinking Marketing Agency. There are so many service providers in our Jennifer Layman, Publisher

HEALTH INTERVIEWS 28 - Grieving And Assisted Dying 13 - Eating With A Happy Heart. Meet 29 - Turning a Room Into A LifeShare Janet Podleski the girls who are making us fall in love 30 - Introducing PEMF Therapy with healthy food. 31 - How To Truly Rest In Peace 25 - Saving Silas. The perseverance of a 32 - Be A Good Samaritan doctor’s perseverance, a parents’ strength and a child’s will to live. GENERAL INFORMATION 2 - Health Information and Hotlines HEALTH EXPERTS 6 - Getting In Your 10,000 Steps 7 - Chiropractic or Opioids: A Choice 12 - Church Suppers 8 - Volunteers As Visitors 16 - Kids Lunch Hacks Silas 9 - Dance To Your Health 34 - Health Services Listings Reinwald 10 - Music Of Your Life 36 - Meal Planning On A Budget 11 - Developing A Home Escape Plan 17 - Harvest Season Lessons FUN & GAMES 20 - Give Kombucha A Try! 4 - Canadian Health Facts 21 - Healthy Meals 33 - Crossword 22 - Know The Nutrition Facts 36 - Crossword Answers 23 - Be Healthy In The City CONTENTS INTERVIEWS CONTENTS HEALTH MATTERS MAGAZINE PAGE 1 Health Hotlines and Information

GOVERNMENT SERVICES Veterans Affairs Canada Assistance Mental Health Crisis Line www.veterans.gc.ca Www.crisisline.ca Telehealth Ontario 1-800-268-7708 1-866-996-0991 1-866-797-0000 For military, veterans, spouses and children For individuals aged 16 years or older who Free, confidential telephone service to get and some public servants (depending on are experiencing a mental health crisis and health advice or general health information Ministry.) 24 hours. who live in Renfrew County and other from a Registered Nurse. 24 hours. regions. 24 hours. HELPLINES & HOTLINES Health Canada AIDS/HIV Hotlines www.healthcanada.gc.ca Robbie Dean Family Counselling Centre www.cdnaids.ca 1-866-225-0709 www.robbiedeancentre.com 1-800-668-2437 Phone: 613-629-4243 Information, counselling and safer sex Seniors Info Line Calls answered 24 hours a day, 7 days a information. Monday to Friday from 1-888-910-1999 week. For kids, teens, adults and seniors. 10:00am to 10:30pm, and Saturday and Sunday from 11:00am to 3:00pm. Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Regional Assault Care Program Term Care www.renfrewhosp.com ADDITIONAL INFO www.health.gov.on.ca 1-800-363-7222 1-800-268-1154 Renfrew County service to report assault Ontario Poison Centre and abuse. 24 hours. www.ontariopoisoncentre.ca OHIP Information Line 1-800-268-9017 www.health.gov.on.ca Ontario Drug & Alcohol Helpline Information about poisoning exposures, 1-800-664-8988 www.drugandalcoholhelpline.ca ingestion and inhalation, etc. 24 hours. 1-800-565-8603 Ontario Drug Benefit Program Quebec Poison Centre www.health.gov.on.ca Ontario Problem Gambling Helpline www.santemontreal.qc.ca 1-866-811-9893 www.problemgamblinghelpline.ca 1-800-463-5060 1-888-230-3505 Information about poisoning exposures, Ontario Provincial Police For people who want help with gambling ingestion and inhalation, etc. 24 hours. www.opp.ca issues, including family members. 24 hours. 1-888-310-1122 Recalls and Advisories Drug related or non-emergency calls. Kids Help Phone www.consumerinformation.ca Information or reports to be made to police. www.kidshelpphone.ca Canadian recalls and safety alerts database. 24 hours. For emergencies call 911. 1-800-668-6868 For youth up to age 21. 24 hours.

PAGE 2 HEALTH MATTERS MAGAZINE HEALTH INFORMATION Be A Part of Health Matters If you have often thought about being part of Health Matters, but don’t OUR 2018 NEXT ISSUES know if it’s the right fit for you? Or, maybe you know it’s a good fit, but you just can’t seem to find the time to get organized. Let us help! WINTER ISSUE Publishing: January 5, 2018. There are three ways you can be part If you find that the choices we have Deadline: December 15, 2017 of Health Matters: an editorial, a don’t quite suit what you’re looking ----- display ad or a listing as a for, talk to us about it. SPRING-SUMMER ISSUE health service. We also We have created unique Publishing: April 27, 2018 provide a topical focus options for organizations Deadline: April 6, 2018 each issue. It’s optional to needing something a little ----- participate in the focus different. This is an idea FALL ISSUE section, but it does help for collaborative ventures Publishing: September 7, 2018 give organizations some where various people Deadline: August 17, 2018 ideas on participating. share the cost. Regardless of the way Finally, we are available OUR DISTRIBUTION you choose to be in the to speak to groups or We cover all of Renfrew County. You magazine, we help! You boards on the magazine can find Health Matters at hospitals, don’t have to be a and how it can help get grocery stores, libraries, independent professional writer to write the word out about what pharmacies and most healthcare an editorial - we help with the writing your organization has to offer, or how providers. Anyone wishing copies is and editing of all the pieces. If you’re you could use the magazine to help welcome to be part of our delivery list looking to run a display ad, we also build awareness of what you do. and copies may be requested for special provide graphic design at no additional You can call or email us for any events, tradeshows or other needs. In cost. We do our best to make it easy! information. total, we print and distribute 15,000 copies of each issue. The two words SUBSCRIPTIONS “information” and The patient While we offer Health Matters free for pick up at the locations that host the “communication” should be made to magazine, we also offer subscriptions. are often used understand that he or The cost is $20 for three issues, she must take charge which covers our costs of mailing. interchangeably, Subscriptions are a great idea for people but they signify quite of his or her own life. who can’t always get the latest issue, or Don’t take your who may be outside of our delivery area different things. and still wish to receive Health Matters. Information is giving body to the doctor as if he were a CONTACTING US out; communication Phone: 613-732-7774 is getting through. repair shop. [email protected] - Quentin Regestein www.ovhealth.ca - Sydney J. Harris www.facebook.com/ovhealth

BE PART OF HEALTH MATTERS HEALTH MATTERS MAGAZINE PAGE 3 In 1961, Drs. James In June 2005, Dr. Andras Nagy put Canada on the map a Till and Ernest of stem cell research by establishing the country's first, Canadi n McCulloch discover and to date only, human embryonic stem cell lines. In the hemopoietic 2009 he discovered a new non-viral method of creating stem cell, the basis stem cells from other cells of the body that could lead to Health for bone marrow possible cures for diseases including spinal cord injury, Facts transplantation. macular degeneration, diabetes and Parkinson's disease. In honour of Canada’s 150th, these facts In 1952, George Klein invents the world's first celebrate Canadian health achievements electric wheelchair for quadriplegic patients.

Dr. Tah Wah Mak was a co-discoverer Jenny Kidd Trout Dr. Wilder Penfield of the T-cell receptor in 1984. Understanding was the first woman was a Canadian neurosurgeon how T-cells work helped in developing licensed to practice who discovered a surgical new drugs for fighting infection, cancer, medicine in Canada treatment for epilepsy called auto-immune disorders and after passing the the “Montreal Procedure.” post-transplant rejection. exam in 1875.

Dr. Jenny Kidd Trout In 2004, a vaccine Photo: www.cbc.ca In 1953, Dr. Heinz E. Lehmann and for E. coli in cattle, In 2011, Dr. Shaf Keshavjee, director Dr. G. Hanrahan conduct the first developed by Drs. clinical trial of the antipsychotic drug Brett Finlay and of the Toronto Lung Transplant Program Andy Potter is at Toronto General Hospital devised chlorpromazine in Montreal. It successful and used a way to test the viability of a donor’s becomes the standard antipsychotic worldwide. lung before transplantation. treatment for schizophrenia. Dr. Wilfred Bigelow discovered that lowering the temperature of an arm or leg reduced its oxygen needs. That led to inducing hypothermia to allow for open heart operation.

Dr. Bigelow (above) In 1996, Dr. Brenda Gallie In 2005, Drs. Susan Bryson and Dr. John Callaghan develops a new therapy for and Lonnie Zwaigenbaum are also credited retinoblastoma, a cancer of develop the first Autism the eye that leads to blind- with sparking Observation Scale for ness; her work represents the infants, helping identify development of first major change in managing autism in children as young the heart pacemaker. the disease in 35 years. as six months.

In 1967, Connaught Laboratoriess developed a In 1925, Dr. James Collip discovers parathyroid Canadian freeze-dried smallpox vaccine that became hormone. The discovery increased understanding the international standard to eradicate smallpox. of how our body regulates calcium and eventually It was eradicated worldwide in 1980, led to new treatments for osteoporosis.

PAGE 4 HEALTH MATTERS MAGAZINE CANADIAN HEALTH FACTS Veterinarian Frank Schofield In 1978, Dr. Henry Barnett led a identified an anticoagulant in Canadian study that identified Aspirin moldy cattle feed. That led to the for use in stroke prevention. Daily discovery of Vitamin K inhibitors low-dose Aspirin becomes widely which prevent blood from adopted as a preventative therapy for clotting during surgery. strokes and heart attacks.

In 2010, an Ottawa-based In 1944, Dr. Maud Menten, one of Canada’s first The pager was research team led by Dr. John female physicians, performed the first protein invented by Bell found that a virus called separation using electrophoresis. To this day, that JX-594 attacks and shrinks procedure is a standard tool research in genetics. Alfred J. Gross cancer tumours while leaving in 1949. healthy tissue unscathed. Dr. Chil-Yong Kang Photo: pharmaceutical-technology.com

Dr. Bruce Chown Photo: www.cdnmedhall.org David Hubel Photo: Children’s Eye Fdn. Photo: Children’s

In 1968, Dr. Bruce Chown licenses Rh immunoglobulin, virtually eliminating Rh In 2000, Dr. Peter St. George-Hyslop, David Hubel, born in disease. This disease had claimed the at the University of Toronto, 1926, worked for two lives of many babies whose blood was developed a vaccine that prevents decades on mapping the visual cortex of the incompatible with their mother’s blood. Alzheimer's disease in mice. brain. This means figuring out where in Dr. Vera Peters pioneered radiation treatment of Hodgkin’s disease in 1956. the cerebral cortex Once incurable, Hodgkins now has a 90 per cent survival rate. various vision processing tasks take place: things In 1989, Dr. Lap-Chee Tsui, The first HIV preventative vaccine was developed like lines, brightness, Dr. Manuel Buchwald and by Dr. Chil-Yong Kang and his research team at the contrast, edges, colour Dr. Jack Riordan discovered University of Western Ontario in London in 2011. and more. He won the the gene that causes As of 2014, the vaccine was in clinical trials. Nobel Prize for his cystic fibrosis. work in 1981.

In 1968, Dr. Charles Schriver In 1967, Dr. Henri Breault, a pediatrician, discovered that adding developed the first child safety cap for Vitamin D to milk reduced medication bottles, greatly reducing the the incidence of rickets in number of childhood poisonings. children. Today, Vitamin D is added to all Canadian milk. In 2003, Canadian researchers sequence In 2007, a groundbreaking study led by Dr. Stephen Moses the SARS genome in just 11 weeks. showed that male circumcision can reduce the spread of They developed potential vaccines and HIV in young men. Time magazine ranked the finding a treatment within a matter of months. the number one medical breakthrough of 2007.

CANADIAN HEALTH FACTS HEALTH MATTERS MAGAZINE PAGE 5 Work up to 10,000 steps. Most people have 1,000-3,000 steps per day so try working up in 300 step increments.

Add a task while waiting. Take out the garbage while coffee is brewing. Tidy up downstairs while waiting for food to cook.

If you’re watching kids/grandkids at the rink or sports field, walk around the rink or up and down the sports field.

Use your break at work or part of your lunch to do a short walk. You’ll be amazed the steps you you can record in 10 minutes.

Add walking into something you do. For example, when you’re getting groceries, do an extra GETTING TO lap before you check out. Don't stop to get your mail or other short stops on the way home. Park the car and then 10,000 STEPS walk to these tasks.

Walk kids to school or to Have a walking discussion Instead of trying to do Park farther away from the bus stop. And, pick at work. If you’re just several things at once, do the store, restaurant, them up from school or talking about things, do them one at a time to salon, post office or other at the bus stop. it while walking. earn more steps. place you visit.

Walk the dog. Walk a Park in a central location Use extra (spare) time If you have to talk to a friend’s dog. Or, get the where you can walk to for a walk. Think about co-worker, walk to their friend involved and you 2-3 stops as opposed to a 500 step walk that can office instead of sending can both walk the dog! driving to each one. be done between tasks. an email.

Do a quick outside tour Skip the drive-thru. Have three walking Once a week, make a where you pick up any Park at the far end of groups each with their stop at a park or trail litter, pull weeds or water the parking lot and walk own day. Then you have to walk for half an hour the flowers. in to place your order. a back-up if one cancels. before going home.

PAGE 6 HEALTH MATTERS MAGAZINE GETTING TO 10,000 STEPS More and more we are hearing help to manage it, you should about the problems in society as consider consulting with a a result of the over use and abuse Chiropractic chiropractor. We are experts in of prescription opioids. Last musculoskeletal health and best year, there were over 9 million suited to help you diagnose and prescriptions for opioids written Or Opioids: manage your condition through in Ontario. One in every eight direct care or in collaboration deaths for people aged 25 to 34 with other health care providers. involved opioids. Canada-wide, You Have We will effectively reduce and that number was estimated at manage pain with the lowest side 2,500 deaths last year. A Choice effects risks possible, even What’s interesting is that a helping to reduce the need for significant percentage of those By: Dr. Nik Bair-Patel, pain medications to their lowest prescriptions were written to Chiropractor effective dose when they are address musculoskeletal pain. necessary. There are certainly alternatives bodily aches and pains. It has which can have a significant All legitimate health agencies to a prescription of benzo- often been seen however, as a impact on how a person manages are calling the opioid situation a diazepine, antihistamines, or a second thought, when other their pain while performing daily national crisis. If you are in pain tricyclic antidepressant for things don't work. That is no activities. Exercise, for example, and taking opioid medications, musculoskeletal pain, and one of longer the case among the can strengthen tissue around an be aware of the risks and know them is chiropractic care. medical researchers. Even the injured joint and reduce the your alternative options. Chiropractic is a natural, drug Canadian Guidelines for Opioid spasm and inflammation that ----- free approach to pain and Therapy and Chronic Non- leads to pain. Anti-inflammatory ASK THE EXPERT: disability, and with a Cancer Pain urge doctors to use diets and supplements can Dr. Nik Bair-Patel, Chiropractor significantly lower side effect other pharmaceuticals, or no reduce the body's inflammation Integrated Health Centre profile. More importantly, it is a pharmaceuticals before over-reaction, thus minimizing 570 Nelson Street, broad approach to overall considering opioids. the pain response as well. By Pembroke, Ontario physical health, utilizing many One of the reasons for the using our body properly in our Phone: 613-732-3333 scientifically validated success of chiropractic care is environment, we can avoid interventions. [email protected] that it includes lifestyle further injuries and reduce pain. www.integratedhealthcentre.ca Chiropractic has long been management such as diet, So if you or someone close to understood as primary care for exercise and ergonomics, all of you is in physical pain and needs

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HEALTH EXPERTS HEALTH MATTERS MAGAZINE PAGE 7 Sitting down with Marilyn and rewarding,” she says. “It's kind Josephine, you would think the of like explaining what you get two were long lost pals. It's hard Volunteers As Visitors out of faith. It just feels good.” to get a word in edge-wise as By: Alice Grenon, Manager, Community Support Services Volunteers can also help with they comment on world events some tasks that the person they and things that happened in their are visiting can find difficult to daily lives since they last got do. One woman who makes together. What's interesting is jewellery has a volunteer who they have only known each other helps sort and organize the beads for five months, through during her visit. Another has the Carefor's Visiting Program. visitor accompany them to a Josephine was rarely home as doctor's appointment to ensure her busy social calendar kept her they don't miss any instructions. committed, but when she fell As Carefor's Volunteer Visiting and broke her right arm, she was Program continues to grow (with suddenly spending every “We just seem to hit it off,” do other things. 20 new referrals in July alone), moment of her day at home. says Josephine. “I'm a talker. “When my kids visit, they volunteers are always welcome Alone. She couldn't drive or play She's a talker.” want to do everything for me.” and can contribute as much time cards or do the simplest of tasks. And that's not a fluke. Carefor says Josephine. “A regular as they wish. And for those “People don't know how hard takes the time to match people visitor is just different.” wanting to benefit from the it is to sit and watch people do with volunteers. They get to And Marilyn understands that. program, you can call Carefor what they do when you can't,” know both parties and figure out She says people just often feel directly to register. she says. who might make good matches. better talking to someone about ----- While waiting on additional That way there are always a few things instead of keeping their ASK THE EXPERT: health supports, Josephine was volunteers available for each thoughts and feelings inside. It Alice Grenon, Manager referred to Carefor's Volunteer person in case of holidays or could be commenting about Community Support Servcies Visiting Program and she other volunteer commitments. something in the news, or a more Carefor Health & immediately signed up. That's The Volunteer Visiting Program personal matter, but just talking Community Services how she was matched with also works well if there is a it over relieves a lot of stress. So Phone: 613-732-3949 ext.1115 Marilyn, a former teacher who caregiver involved. The what does Marilyn get out of it? [email protected] has been a regular volunteer for volunteer can provide a break for “It's difficult to explain what I www.carfor.ca many years. the caregiver, freeing them up to get out of it, but it's extremely www.carefor.ca Could you or someone you know be part of our Volunteer Visiting Program Carefor is looking to recruit volunteers to assist seniors and isolated adults who wish to remain living in their own home for as long as possible. Could we recruit you? Volunteer can assist with: Going for a walk | Preparing a lunch | Writing letters Light housekeeping | Conversation | Reading a book A shopping trip | Social visiting | Caregiver respite

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PAGE 8 HEALTH MATTERS MAGAZINE HEALTH EXPERTS Looking for a fun way to be season to learn the basic physically and mentally active program (while dancing.) After this fall? The solution for you is completing the basic program, modern square dancing. Dance To you can continue at the basic Modern vs. Traditional level or move to the mainstream While you may know about level, which is followed by square dancing, you may not Your Health almost limitless higher levels. know about modern square Dancers can seek out square dancing. Modern square By: George Newton dance clubs around the world dancing is set to modern music. Modern Square Dancer and fit right in because clubs use The caller’s directions to the the same English calls! This is dancers happen at random great for snowbirds who find during the music. If that sounds clubs to join in the winter. hard, it isn’t! These easy-to- There are four square dance follow calls are repeated in each clubs in the local area and all dance, so you soon learn to Experienced dancers are always and you build strength and have free introductory lessons respond in a synchronized way available to get you up on the balance. That important mind- this fall! We hope to see you out! with the other dancers. dance floor. body coordination becomes even ----- The caller starts with a few key Healthy Activity sharper with every step! ASK THE EXPERT: steps that set the foundation for As you can see, modern square Modern square dancing Bay Waves (Constance Bay) the dance and all future moves. dancing certainly burns calories. provides all ages an opportunity Phone: 613-832-7759 The four-beat rhythm is the same Several reports confirm that to have fun, forget their troubles, [email protected] for all steps - only the words and dancing burns as many or more make new friends, get some Opeongo Squares (Barry’s Bay) music change. All new dancers calories than walking, swimming exercise and feel good about Phone: 613-756-3344 are amazed at how fast they or cycling! The best part is that mastering something new in the grasp the movements in the early [email protected] square dancing is a low-impact company of helpful, friendly Swinging Swallows (Pembroke) stages, even with no previous activity, so it’s accessible for people. Phone: 613-628-9777 dance experience. You will feel nearly everyone. The workout Ready To Join? great about yourself when you comes from constant movement The dance season happens in [email protected] accomplish the dance moves so and quick directional changes, two sessions: September to Mississippi Squares (Carleton Place) quickly. Both couples and single which help keep the body in December and January to April. Phone: 613-831-1675 people easily join in. shape. You get your heart rate up New dancers take the first full www.mississippisquares.ca

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HEALTH EXPERTS HEALTH MATTERS MAGAZINE PAGE 9 In 2016, The Grove Nursing from across Canada on how to Home and the Arnprior Public develop a similar partnership. Library launched the Music of The Ottawa Public Library now Your Life Program. iPods were has a similar program. The collected to create playlists for producer of Alive Inside and the The Grove's 60 residents, plus founder of New York’s Music those in the Adult Day Program. and Memories Foundation The inspiration came from a offered congratulations and documentary called Alive Inside , invited both The Grove and the which showed the power of Music Of Arnprior Public Library to join music in memory care. the foundation. Finally, this The iPods came by donations Your Life spring, the Grove received the (both of money and gently used Community Connections award iPods), financial support through By: Karen Deluca & Tracey McCormick from AdvantAge Ontario for the the local service club sector and program. As the project evolves, Apple Canada. By the end of the stories. No two playlists are amazed with the results, and that the need for additional devices summer of 2016, the library alike and music can be a great excitement has resonated has grown. The library has re- began the purchase of music. equalizer in the relationships throughout the community. issued a call for the donation of A rich body of research across the spectrum of care. It Requests for an expanded gently used iPod Shuffles which supports the benefits of music in also helped staff to gain a deeper program came pouring into the may be tucked away in drawers dementia and palliative care, and connection to each resident. library, and there is now a Music and not being used. This project this project has demonstrated a For seniors without dementia, of Your Life Program for the will breathe new life into these marked increase in socialization. the program allowed residents to general population and for devices and mean so much for The music helps to calm brain share memories over old familiar clients of Hospice Renfrew. seniors in the community. activity, enabling the resident to songs and form new bonds with While the project saw the local ----- focus on the present moment and fellow residents. Others created community rally in support of ASK THE EXPERT: regain that vital connection to acrylic frames to mount iPods, seniors, additional recognition Tracey McCormick and more joined in photography has take place. Following CBC others. It also allows a resident The Grove Nursing Home sessions. The involvement Radio coverage, the library was to create calm within an often [email protected] created moments of resident fielding calls from library busy long-term care facility. Karen Deluca The selection of music is as togetherness, laughter and joy. systems throughout the region, Arnprior Public Library individualized as their life Family members have been and The Grove was taking calls [email protected]

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PAGE 10 HEALTH MATTERS MAGAZINE HEALTH EXPERTS Fire Prevention Week is 7) Practice your plan. Go October 8-14, 2017. This year, through the escape plan with the Ontario Fire Marshall's everyone in the family, and in office has a focus on creating a Developing every room of the home. Make fire plan for your home. As you any adjustments to the plan that and your family settle back into A Home might be necessary as people test the regular routine of the fall, it out. Then, hold a fire drill take an hour to make a fire twice a year for practice. escape plan. Smoke and fire Escape Plan Everyone should be able to react spread fast. There's no time to without hesitation. (If you have figure out how to escape after a By: Joel Layman older or younger people in the fire starts. home, practising twice a year Developing A helps modify any plans as Home Escape Plan mobility issues increase or 1) Draw a floor plan of your probably be a window, but it may not all be together when decrease.) home. Your plan needs to could be the door to an adjoining exiting a house during a fire, so Finally, you should have include every room, so if your room, or patio doors, depending pick a place that everyone will smoke alarms on every storey of home is more than one storey, on the home. Make sure meet at when they escape. It the home and outside of all draw each level on a different everyone knows how to open the might be a neighbour's home, sleeping areas. Do a battery sheet of paper. windows if they need to escape but it could be the mailbox or replacement of the alarms when 2) Include all possible that way. If your windows have large tree or other place away you do your drills to ensure they emergency exits. This means all childproof or other locking from the home. Make sure are in working order. A smoke doors, windows and stairways. mechanisms, make sure people everyone knows that their job is alarm could save your life. Remember, you may not be able know how to get around them. to get to that meeting place. ----- to get to the front door in a fire, 4) Determine who might need 6) Call 9-1-1 from outside. Your ASK THE EXPERT: so knowing all the routes to help. If you have younger, older first priority is safety. Your Joel Layman, Owner safety are important. or disabled people in your home, second is to call the fire Layman Fire & Safety 3) If possible, have two ways out decide how those people will be department. Trying to call the 235 Biesenthal Road, of every room. The first choice helped. Remember, babies will fire department while being Petawawa, Ontario will be the door, but if the door need different help than an adult frantic inside the home will Phone: 613-732-5320 is blocked by smoke or fire, you with low mobility. waste time that could be needed need a back-up exit. This will [email protected] 5) Have a meeting place. You to get everyone out safely. www.laymanfireandsafety.com

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HEALTH EXPERTS HEALTH MATTERS MAGAZINE PAGE 11 September 30 Trinity-St. Andrew's United Church Annual Roast Beef Dinner. Renfrew. Roast beef, potatoes, gravy, vegetable, salad, dessert and tea/coffee. Pricing TBD. Call 613-432-2285. October 1 St. Alphonsus Parish Dinner. Chapeau. 12:00pm-6:00pm. Turkey, beans and all Churchall the trimmings. Held at Chapeau Arena. Adults: $15. Children under 12: $7. October 8 FSuppers St. Casimir Parish Dinner. Round Lake Centre. 1:00pm. Roast beef and bean dinner. Crafts, bingo and draws. Take- out available. Adults: $13. Children under 12: $5. Children under 5: free. Wheelchair accessible. October 15 September 9 September 10 St. John Chrysostom Parish Dinner. Petawawa Presbyterian Church Fall St. John The Evangelist Parish Dinner. Arnprior. 11:30am-6:00pm. Annual Supper. Petawawa. 4:00pm-6:30pm. Campbell's Bay. 3:00pm-6:30pm. Turkey harvest festival and roast beef dinner. Ham, scalloped potatoes, beans, great and ham dinner. Homemade pies. Crafts and draws. Adults $14, Children: assortment of scrumptious salads and Adults: $12.50. Children: $5. $6. Children under 6: free. pies. Adults: $14. Children 6-12: $7. September 16 October 15 Children 5 and under: free. St. John's Lutheran Church Chicken Pie St. Joseph's Parish Dinner. Allumette September 10 Supper. Petawawa. 4:00pm-7:00pm. Island. 5:00pm. Roast beef, mashed Our Lady Of Mercy Parish Dinner. Chicken pie, gravy, mashed potatoes, potatoes and all the fixings, homemade Bancroft. 11:30am-6:00pm. Raffle coleslaw, rolls, apple crisp and ice pie. Held at the St. Joseph's Family tickets, silent auction, CWL gift shop, cream, juice, tea and coffee. Also, baked Centre. Advance tickets only. religious articles. Dinner: ham and roast goods, preserves and a raffle. Adults: beef, homemade salads, baked beans $14. Students: $10. Children 5-12: $6. October 28 and pies! Adults: $13. Children under Children under 5: free. St. Andrew's United Church Harvest Supper. Beachburg. 4:00pm-6:30pm. 12: $6. Children under 5: free. Take-out September 17 Ham, meatballs, scalloped potatoes, meals available. St. Columbkille Cathedral Parish Dinner. baked beans, cabbage salad, buns, September 10 Pembroke. 11:30am-6:30pm. Roast tea/coffee and assorted pies. Pricing Our Lady of Mount Carmel Dinner. beef, ham and baked bean dinner with TBD. Call 613-582-7174. Westmeath. 2:30pm-6:00pm. Turkey, assorted salads and homemade pies baked ham, dressing, gravy, mashed and bazaar. Adults: $13. Children under November 4 potatoes, carrots, coleslaw, homemade 12: $5. St. Andrew's United Church Dinner. Westmeath. 4:00pm-7:00pm. Roast dinner roles, homemade pies, September 24 beef supper and bazaar. Adults: $14, coffee/tea. Adults: $15. Children 12 and St. Patrick Parish Dinner. Mount St. Children 5-10: $7. Children 4 and under: under: $7. Children five and under: free. Patrick. 12:30pm-6:00pm. Turkey, ham free. September 10 and beans. Bingo, games, crafts and Holy Trinity Anglican Church Annual white elephant. Musical entertainment. November 5 Roast Beef Dinner. Pembroke. 4:00pm- Adults: $14. Children: $6. St. Matthew The Apostle Parish Dinner. Madawaska. 12:00pm-6:00pm. Annual 6:00pm. Roast beef and gravy, mashed September 24 turkey, ham and baked bean supper. potatoes, vegetables, coleslaw, rolls and St. George's Anglican Church Turkey Raffles too. Held at the Community Hall. butter, homemade pie and tea/coffee. Supper. Pembroke. Corner of Sandy Adults: $13. Children under 10: $5. Elevator available. Adults: $15. Beach and Doran Roads. 4:00pm- Children 3 and under: free. Students: $10. Children 7-12: $7. 6:00pm. Adults: $12. Children 6-12: $5. Children under 6: free. Children under 5: free. Do you have a Fall Supper? Email us to be on our publishing schedule fro 2018. [email protected]

PAGE 12 HEALTH MATTERS MAGAZINE CHURCH SUPPERS Eating With A Happy Heart The girls who are making us fall in love with

Greta (left) and Janet (right) Podleski healthy food

By: Jennifer Layman tonnes of weight or they have dramatically competitive sisters, so when Greta proposed changed their health. We hear a lot from moving into Janet's basement, well, Janet Janet was rushing around her home, getting mothers, and mothers of children with eating was a bit leery. Still, she agreed, especially ready to leave for a golf tournament it. As disorders. We feel honoured to be in a after Greta promised to cook for them. she gathered everything and headed out, she position where we can be good role models." Cooking was a gene that Greta inherited slammed the door...and caught her finger in Here's their story. from their mother, but which somehow the frame. Managing to get the door managed to skip Janet entirely. So having unlocked without passing out, she flagged someone else do the cooking was fine with down a neighbour to take her to the hospital, Janet and Peter. After several weeks of blood gushing everywhere. She registered many delicious meals, Greta broke the news with the emergency department and took her that all the food she had made was actually seat in the waiting room. healthy. Janet and Peter couldn't believe it! A young woman, a member of the medical I know who you are. And that's when Peter said, "If this is staff, approached her. "I know who you are," healthy, you should write a cookbook! It said the woman. "You changed my life." You changed my life. was the start of something that would take The "Janet" in this story is Janet Podleski, their lives in a whole new direction. who, along with her sister Greta, penned the Looneyspoons soon became an all- famous Looneyspoons series of cookbooks. encompassing project. They worked before The cookbooks have been life-changing in and after their jobs, on weekends and the lives of many people, including the holidays but soon it just wasn't enough. The young woman in the hospital that day. girls decided it was time to quit their jobs The two sisters, just 11 months apart in The young woman told Janet she had been and do this "basement project" full time. age, have pretty much merged their identities an overweight, self-conscious teenager with (They never told anyone they were writing a in creating the Looneyspoons brand. They not many friends. When her mother found cookbook, not even their mother. They appear together on every cookbook: Looney- Looneyspoons at the bookstore, they cooked referred to the cookbook as their 'basement spoons, Crazy Plates, Eat Shrink and Be four meals a week from the healthy project.' They didn't want anyone to tell them Merry and The Looneyspoons Collection. It cookbook. The change in this young they were crazy, which they already had has always been "Janet and Greta," since that woman's life was transformational. She lost some sense that they probably were.) day in 1994 when they hatched the healthy 80 pounds and gained a whole lot of self- "We thought, what's the worst thing that cookbook plan, against all odds. confidence. She ended the story telling Janet can happen?" said Janet. "We just knew if we Janet and Peter had just purchased a new she was getting married later that year. could get this book on the shelves, people home in Ottawa. Janet was working in sales "People pour their hearts out," says Janet, would like it." and marketing for Corel Corporation, and commenting about the letters and emails they The opportunity they saw was that healthy Greta was working for the Minister of receive about the cookbooks (of which she eating cookbooks at the time were a little on Revenue. The two had always been and Greta read every one). "They've lost the dry side. Boring, in fact. Written mostly HEALTH INTERVIEW HEALTH MATTERS MAGAZINE PAGE 13 by dieticians and doctors, they didn't make Chilton, who had written a book, called "The Looneyspoons remained credited as being healthy cooking sound like much fun, and it Wealthy Barber." (To this day, Janet and authored by John Podleski. Finally at week seemed more about sacrificing foods. Greta never found out who placed that article four, Janet and Greta’s names appeared as the "And we were experiencing the exact on their step.) They kept the article, and one rightful authors. But Janet wonders why, of opposite," says Janet. "We were eating day, Janet called Chilton for some advice. At all the names that could have been there, healthy food and it tasted fantastic." first, Chilton was a bit leery, but he did give “John” was the name that appeared. “John” So they did quit their jobs and turned the a few of the girls’ recipes to his mother, who was the name of their father, who had passed basement into their work room. They clipped shared them with her bridge club. Mom’s away six years earlier. He had been an avid the Canadian National Best Seller list out of advice was that her son “better help those fan of cartoons. Maybe this was his way of the newspaper, whited-out the name of the girls” because the food was incredible. Not telling his girls he knew of their book that was in the number one spot, and just incredible for healthy food, but accomplishment - a little humour on his part replaced it with "Looneyspoons by Janet and incredible food. Period. with the credit! Greta Podleski." That was their vision - to be Chilton introduced the girls to self- Also interesting was that upon learning of number one on the best seller list. publishing which was how he had published the success of Looneyspoons, the publishers The basement project took a toll on their his book. He mentored them through the reached out to Janet and Greta, offering to finances. After burning through their process and finally, Looneyspoons was "take that book off your hands." Janet savings, they had a yard sale to raise funds printed, published and on the shelves. In the graciously declined the offer, deciding to where anything that wasn't bolted to the floor first two weeks, they sold every copy they continue on their own. They established a had a price tag on it. Janet sold her wedding printed. Chilton loaned them $5,000 for the publishing company and would go on to dress and her car. They made $9,000. second print run, a loan that Janet says they publish three more cookbooks, and sell over When a proof of the book was ready, they never did pay back! two million copies. The Looneyspoons shipped it off to a number of cookbook "We sort of just came out of nowhere," Collection, their most recent, was even publishers. One by one, the publishers turned says Janet. "They were saying, "Who are credited as "The Cookbook of the Decade" them down. They wanted "serious" these people?" by Chapters/Indigo. Who says a serious cookbooks. Looneyspoons was filled with Looneyspoons would cook-book can’t be crazy dish names such as "Fee, Fie, Faux go on to spend 85 weeks fun? Fried Chicken" and "A Wok in the Pork" (almost a year and a No, not your among others puns. Then there were the half) on the best seller traditional cookbook. cartoon illustrations to accompany the dish list. And yes, they made But then, these were names, some corny jokes and "funned-up" it to number one. not your traditional healthy living tips. That was not what the An interesting note: cookbook authors. publishers were looking for at all. But Janet when they first made it Greta had no cooking and Greta were undeterred. They would find on the list, the credit for credentials to her a way somehow to get this book published. Looneyspoons was given name, she had just One morning, a copy of the Saturday to John Podleski. Greta learned from watching Evening Post, an insert delivered with The had called the newspaper her mother. And Janet Globe And Mail, was sitting on their front to report the error, but didn't cook at all, but step. Stapled to it was an article about David for the next two weeks, she loved to write and

We just knew that if we could get this book on the shelves that people would like it.

Recipe: Tuna Turner The Looneyspoons Collection

PAGE 14 HEALTH MATTERS MAGAZINE HEALTH INTERVIEW research. Together, the two were proving control of their food. A lot of people eat the an indulgence once in a while." regular people in regular households in same 10 things - even cavemen foraged But is healthy eating really that easy? towns with regular grocery stores could cook around and ate a variety! We tell people to go "It doesn't have to be so complicated," says healthy food that tasted great. on a grocery shopping safari." Janet. "Just go back to the basics. There is no "We weren't preaching some crazy fad Despite her drive to give people a fun way whiz bang science answer, there is just a diet," says Janet. "It was common sense. We to eat well, Janet doesn't pass judgement on belief; a belief that you can do it and that you were going back to the basics." anyone's food choices. They aren't healthy can make better choices. You can't simply But Janet and Greta are more than healthy food 'activists' and they would rather speak expect your life to change, you have to cookbook authors. They are actually living out for things than against them. change something about it." the Looneyspoons life. They eat what they “My best advice for healthy eating is to eat It's a tough argument to say "it's too hard" preach. They believe what they write. And with a healthy heart," she says. "Enjoy your to Janet and Greta Podleski. These were girls when they wrote The Looneyspoons food. Really enjoy it. People are depriving who were told by anyone in any position of Collection, they did it because they felt themselves of the pleasure of food. They are publishing authority that they had no nutrition information had changed so much in conflict with food. They feel negative, business being cookbook authors. Yet, they that they needed an update. They even took neurotic, anxious and guilty. There is an sold everything they had to pursue their their first two best-selling books out of print. emotional component to eating healthy." cookbook dream and they ended up selling "It's a compliment that people want more," Janet is now a Holistic Nutritionist. She two million cookbooks. says Janet of the requests they receive to was spurred on to take that training to learn "I think the reason we are successful is write another cookbook. "With The Looney- more about nutrition and how people make because we believed it and knew it and we spoons Collection, we just wanted to make it choices around it. As you have this just acted as if it was happening," says Janet. more clear for people." conversation with Janet, you forget that she "We believed with our hearts, not our heads, Confusion on what to eat is something is a best-selling author several times over, a and that's where the magic starts; when your Janet hears often when she speaks to Canadian food celebrity and arguably one of subconscious gets it." organizations. She understands people are the world's foremost authorities on inspiring If you need your subconscious to "get it" confused, and people to eat healthy. about healthy eating, a good start would be Looneyspoons was You forget this because The Looneyspoons Collection cookbook. built to address that she's "one of us." She Maybe what you need is a good dose of My challenge. gets it about life. Yammy Spice (think Miami Vice) or One "There is always "Nobody wants to be Flew Over The Couscous Nest or Burger, some celebrity diet or preached to - that's the She Wrote. Thinking sweets? How about new fad," says Janet, diet mentality," she says. Bonbon Jovi, Don't Be Afraid of the Dark "but when you really "I would rather get Fudge or Merry Cherry Cheesecake. analyze what works, a people inspired and If it sounds a little crazy, remember, that's lot of the time it is enthusiastic and give what the publishers thought before Janet and going back to basics. them hope. Dieting is so Greta sold two million copies out from under We tell people to "take old-fashioned; so 1970s. their noses. Just in case they're onto platters into their own Healthy eating should be something, maybe it's worth a try. It just hands" and take forever and that includes might change your life.

It doesn’t have to be complicated. Just go back to the basics.

Recipe: Starvin’ Guy Chicken Pie The Looneyspoons Collection

HEALTH INTERVIEW HEALTH MATTERS MAGAZINE PAGE 15 Let Kids Help Muffin Tins Cookie Cutters

Let your child pack their own Make Mac and Cheese without Add some dazzle to a plain old lunch. Pre-assemble Ziplock the mess. Bake it in muffin tins sandwich by using cookie baggies with portioned proteins so kids can eat them with their cutters to make neat shapes. and veggies and other snacks hands. Have ham leftover from Make the sandwich, then use and place in bins. Label the bins dinner? Toss it in to add some the cookie cutter like you would “Pick 1” or “Pick 2” to help kids protein or add some veggies. in baking to make cut-outs. Try with their selections. These can go into the thermos! it with cheese and ham too! KIDS LUNCHES

Lunch Hacks Kabobs Thermos Ideas Freeze Juice Boxes Tired of making a sandwich every day? A thermos can be used for so much Freeze juice boxes to use as ice packs Why not try some protein kabobs more than just soup! Think: chicken in lunch boxes. This frees up space in instead. Try bread pieces, meat and nuggets, pasta or burgers! Hot Tip: Let your kids lunch box and makes it cheese on skewers for a new twist. thermos sit for 5 minutes, covered, lighter to carry. The drinks will thaw Try with fruit too! You can with boiling water. While your by lunchtime while still remaining cold alternate fruits to make a thermos is warming, heat food and helping to keep food fresh. colourful and fun kabob! in the microwave. You want the food really hot - the secret Keep Apples Slices Fresh Pepperoni Pizza is to always put hot food into a Wrap up a sliced apple with the core Flatbread, pepperoni, cherry hot thermos. Once the food is intact using saran wrap. Keeping the tomato, mozzarella cheese, done, empty the thermos and apple core intact reduces the amount pepperoni slice and repeat. dry. Place the hot food into of browning. When your kids un-wrap Turkey Club the thermos and cover tightly the apple it will already be sliced and Bread, slice of turkey, piece of bacon, (not too tight for little hands to open). ready to eat! chunk of avocado, Swiss Burgers and Hot Dogs cheese, lettuce. Put the hot elements of a burger or Mason Jar Container Tip Chicken Cobb Salad sausage links into the thermos. Use an empty fruit cup or Lettuce, grilled chicken, Wrap the bun separately. Have another apple sauce container and avocado, cherry tomato, container with lettuce, tomato, etc., secure it to the top of a bacon, boiled egg, lettuce. and any condiments in small separate mason jar to house dips BLT: Bacon, Lettuce, Tomato containers. Have the kids assemble it or other items. Fill the Bread, bacon, lettuce, cherry all at school. mason jar with carrot and tomato. Pasta celery sticks and have the Salami Caprese Any kind of pasta and sauce works top contain hummus or Salami, mozzarella ball, basil perfectly in a thermos. dip. Or fill the jar with leaf, cherry tomatoes. Two Thermos Lunch tuna salad and the top Chicken Quesadilla If everything doesn’t fit in one with crackers. This hack isn’t just for Piece of tortilla, cube of cheddar thermos, add another! Perfect for kids - it can be taken as a work snack! cheese, piece of grilled chicken. leftovers from Thanksgiving dinner.

PAGE 16 HEALTH MATTERS MAGAZINE KIDS LUNCH HACKS It's harvest time again. Of are more drought-resistant than course, harvest season may not others to thrive in dry seasons. mean that much to you if you Harvest Season As an investor, you should also don't work in agriculture. diversify; if you only owned one Nonetheless, you can learn a lot type of financial asset, and that from those who do - especially Offers Lessons asset class took a big hit, you in your role as an investor. could sustain large losses. Feed Your Portfolio Spreading your dollars among an Using the proper combination To Investors array of investments - stocks, of fertilizers and irrigation, bonds, cash, etc. - may help farmers seek to maximize the By: John Branecki, Financial Advisor reduce the effects of volatility on growth of their crops. And if your portfolio. Diversification you want to give your portfolio by itself isn’t a guarantee but it the opportunity to grow, you could help. need to ‘feed’ it with the right Few of us toil in the fields to mix of investments. This means caused by too much rain, too it. For example, when it has been make our living, but knowing you'll need to own a reasonable little rain, pest infestations - the dry for a long time, they can the challenges of those who farm percentage of growth-oriented list goes on. When you invest, boost irrigation. As an investor, the land can teach us some investments such as stocks and you shouldn't expect to get rich you can't control the economic techniques that may help us to stock-based securities. Keep in quickly; you can experience climate, but you can make nurture our investments. mind, the value of these types of obstacles in the form of bear adjustments. If all signs point to ----- investments will fluctuate, markets, economic downturns, rising long-term interest rates, ASK THE EXPERT: sometimes sharply, and there is changes in legislation and so which can have a negative effect John Branecki, Financial Advisor no guarantee you won't lose forth. Continuing to invest for on long-term bond prices, you Member, CIPF some or all of your principal. the long-term and focusing more may reduce your exposure to Edward Jones Be Patient on long-term results than short- these bonds, for a while. 640 Pembroke Street East, Crops don't grow overnight. term success can help you as you Diversify Pembroke, Ontario Farmers know they will put in work toward your objectives. Farmers face a variety of risks countless hours of work before Phone: 613-732-1925 Responding ToThe such as poor weather and [email protected] they see the fruits of their Investment Climate fluctuating prices. They can help www.edwardjones.com labours. And along the way, they Farmers can't control the combat risks by diversifying. will likely experience setbacks weather, but they can respond to They can plant some crops that

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HEALTH EXPERTS HEALTH MATTERS MAGAZINE PAGE 17 Eat Well. Eat Local.

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PAGE 22 HEALTH MATTERS MAGAZINE HEALTH EXPERTS As we make that transition the cold weather comes in. The from summer to fall, Curling Club is just one of the individuals and families are many sport clubs available in the looking for other ways to Be Healthy In The City city. Others include: cycling, continue to be active. The City By: Elijah McKeown girls hockey, minor hockey, of Pembroke has several Recreation Programmer baseball and softball, soccer, opportunities both indoors and cross-country skiing, skating, outdoors, that can make the fall snowmobiling, volleyball, season enjoyable. badminton and martial arts, to Starting at the waterfront, name a few. The City of there is the 1.5km paved Pembroke is a hub of activity - Kiwanis walkway, making it a we know you'll find something great trail for walkers and to enjoy! bikers, as well as being Finally, enjoy this time of year accessible. Take the walkway by strolling the streets and all the way to Riverside Park sidewalks as people decorate for and enjoy some fall season fun the seasons. Make your own in the play areas. An outdoor Adjacent to the waterfront is offers a variety of year-round routes through the residential workout centre is available, or the Skateboard Park that can swimming programs, including areas, or make it a walking tour bring your own equipment and keep you busy for hours - either Red Cross pre-school classes, of Downtown and Pembroke enjoy the use of the grounds for skateboarding or watching the Swim Kids/youth lessons, Street. It's a beautiful time of a fun outing. Take a stroll skills of our local youth. The Parents & Tots Program, and year. Enjoy the City. around the Park for some added Skateboard Park is also just leadership training. Aquafit ----- kms on the bike or as a walk. down the road from the classes are always popular, as is ASK THE EXPERT: From the waterfront, head over Pembroke Farmers' Market the adult Learn to Swim Elijah McKeown to the Pembroke Memorial which will run Wednesday and Program. Beside the pool are Recreation Programmer Centre (PMC) for on-and-off-ice Saturday mornings until some ball diamonds and open City of Pembroke Thanksgiving. space areas that are great for activity. Watch our website for Phone: 613-735-6821 ext.1502 free and family skates And if you're not ready to get extra activities. [email protected] throughout the year, or pop into out of the water just yet, then we Also near the pool is the the arena and walk some laps to have a pool for you! The Pembroke Curling Club which www.pembroke.ca get in a bit more exercise. Kinsmen Pool aquatic team will be gearing up for events as

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By: Jennifer Layman the baby, the doctor decided to keep Stacey. There was a nurse who was trying to There were some problems. reassure them, but all Jeff could see was It was April 16, 2016 and Stacey Six hours later, a baby was born. But the more and more medical staff tending to their Reinwald was wondering if she was having room was silent. baby. labour pains. She wasn't sure. She had false “When you see six, then seven, then eight labour pains previously, and it could be people, and you're not getting any info, it's more of that. The timing was off too, as she just hard to deal with,” said Jeff. was three weeks early. It took 30 minutes for them to get some Stacey had struggled with this pregnancy. information, and when they got it, it wasn't After a healthy baby girl, Jaina, a few years good. The baby wasn't able to breathe on his earlier, she had a miscarriage and she own, and they didn't know if he ever would. experienced an array of emotions with that I knew there was “When we saw him, he was hooked up to loss. It was in the midst of sorting out those a problem because all these tubes but there was still nothing,” emotions that she found out she was says Jeff. “He was still. Just still.” pregnant again. It was a pregnancy that had he wasn’t crying. The doctors tried taking out the breathing complications and she was sick all the time. tube a few times, but there was no breathing. To say it was stressful, would be putting it “ Dr. Heather Castillo was a doctor in the very mildly. room that day, and according to Jeff and “She didn't deserve that,” says Jeff, Stacey, she became their strongest advocate. talking about the difficulty Stacey had with Dr. Castillo told them that they had to get the the pregnancy. “She does everything right baby to Ottawa, that they couldn't do she doesn't smoke, she eats healthy, and she anything more for him in Pembroke. had the hard pregnancy.” “He came out purple and blue,” says Jeff. Jeff says that he and Stacey were Stacey and her husband Jeff decided that “He wasn't crying. There was just nothing. panicking. They kept saying, “We can't lose given the difficult pregnancy, they had He was completely still. I knew there was a another baby.” better be safe and head to the hospital. They problem because he wasn't crying.” Dr. Castillo was on the phone to CHEO to made the trip from Chalk River to Stacey was fully aware of what was going discuss the baby's condition, and making on, but she was helpless.” Jeff was in the arrangements for CHEO to expect him. Pembroke while Jeff's parents looked after Jaina. The minute the staff got a monitor on room with her, but felt equally as helpless. Next, she was booking air ambulance to HEALTH INTERVIEW HEALTH MATTERS MAGAZINE PAGE 25 transport the baby. But the air ambulance that was already in the area was on another emergency call and wasn't available. Jeff said he could hear Dr. Castillo on the phone, trying to find a way to get his son to CHEO. “The helicopter wasn't available and then there was an issue about the pilots having flown too many hours,” says Jeff. “Now we can't even get him to Ottawa. We can't get him there.” Unwilling to give up, another plan emerged. An Ornge (air ambulance) airplane had just landed in Toronto at Sick Kids Hospital. That airplane could come to Pembroke & Area Airport and refuel and be ready to go to Ottawa, if the hospital could transfer the baby by land ambulance to the airport. But The helicopter wasn’t there was a problem: the airplane's pilots would have reached their available and then there maximum flying hours by the time was an issue about the they got to Pembroke. Someone else would have to fly to Ottawa. pilots having“ flown too Jeff remembers Dr. Castillo saying, “Just come. He can't wait.” many hours. Now we While everyone was rushing to can’t even get him to make arrangements for the transfer, Stacey got to hold her baby for 15 Ottawa. We can’t get minutes. They didn't have a name yet. him there. She kissed him goodbye and the doctors got him ready to take the airplane ride of his little life. About 40 minutes later, around 11:30pm, everyone met at the airport: the airplane from Toronto with their equipment and their crew, another airplane and a new crew who took over the transport to Ottawa, and then the land ambulance from the Pembroke Regional Hospital who arrived with baby Reinwald. They loaded everyone in, everyone except Jeff. There wasn't room for him he would have to meet them at CHEO. “They were very efficient,” says Jeff recalling how everyone ”organized at the airport. “There was no wasting any time.” By the time Jeff arrived at CHEO, his son was in the “baby ICU.” Meanwhile, Stacey's brother had arrived at the hospital to be with her. Stacey's parents were driving back from Florida, thinking they would be home in plenty of time for the birth of their next grandchild. They didn't have a cell phone with them, so there was no way to tell them what was going on. Jeff's parents had Jaina. They knew a little bit of what was happening, but they couldn't do anything but sit and wait. “Jeff was sending me texts,” says Stacey. “I remember it was around four in the morning.” At CHEO, Jeff was watching the doctors at work. He remembers how impressed he was because they worked in teams. “The team of doctors all went to one child in the ICU, and then the next,” he says. “Every child had the dedication of five to seven doctors at a time.” But it was intimidating to see so many doctors around his child. Later that morning, they pulled out the baby's breathing tube for the first time. He stopped breathing. They re-inserted the tube. They tried a second time, and still no breathing, but this time they used a hand puffer to keep him alive. A few minutes later, Baby Reinwald took a breath. For Jeff, it was the best moment. “I felt like he was out of the woods when he breathed on his own for the first time,” says Jeff, his eyes swelling with tears as he remembers that moment as if it had just happened. “And it wasn't a weak breath, it was a strong breath. He was saying, “I want to get off this machine.” PAGE 26 HEALTH MATTERS MAGAZINE HEALTH INTERVIEW Stacey was still in Pembroke, that Stacey, Jeff, Jaina and Silas clinging to her phone for any were just any other young family. updates. This was one she was But this is a family that knows a happy to get. thing or two about struggles. “It was awful not being able to be Early on in their relationship, Jeff there for him and not being able to fought a drug addiction. There were see him for the first day of his life,” a lot of hard times, a lot. But he's she says. “It still hasn't hit me.” proud to say that today he is 10 After their harrowing experience, years sober. Stacey is fighting her and after being without a name for own battle - a depression from two days, Jeff and Stacey named losing a child, and then the their son Silas. enormous stress of Silas' birth. She Their first check up with him is on medication to be “level” as she showed he was developing perfectly. calls it, and she knows that there will So did the next and the next and the come a day when she will face it all. next. He took a different route to get “I know it will hit me,” she says. started, but Silas is a perfectly Yet somehow, there is a quiet Photo: Submitted normal kid. resilience about her; she knows it's a We met up for this interview at the battle, but she knows she will win it. airport, it was Silas' first time back Stacey tells that part of her story in since his airplane ride a year ago. hopes that it will help other people Once he got on the runway, he didn't who might be going through want to leave. He was touching the something similar, and to encourage lights and pulling some weeds that them to stay strong. were creeping thorough the When you think about what Silas pavement. went through in the first 24 hours of Jeff admits he didn't know much his life, it seems overwhelming to about the airport other than he expect a child to be able to endure remembers his dad using Pem-Air all of that. After all, he's when it was operating. experiencing the world and “I didn't know you could use an everything that comes with it, which airport for something like this,” he is usually enough for most kids on says. “I didn't even know they had day one of their lives. But he clearly airplanes for this kind of thing. comes from a family who knows When you're going through all of how to fight the good fight, and this you don't think about airplanes something inside of his little body and airports and runways.” must have told him that he had that Afterwards, we headed over to within him. 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PAGE 30 HEALTH MATTERS MAGAZINE HEALTH EXPERTS Most people don't want to open your death box to to think of their impending handle your affairs and grant demise, let alone plan for How To Truly your wishes. it. Yet one of the most Witnessing the transformation practical ways you can experienced by those who have truly rest in peace is to Rest In Peace bravely signed up for the course thoroughly prepare for By: Julie Keon, has been nothing short of your death before you are gratifying for me. One class Certified Life-Cycle Celebrant forced to. For this reason, I graduate shared: “We cried. We created the “Ready or Not: and Death Educator laughed. We had meaningful Preparing for the discussions of life's most Inevitable” course. Fellow difficult topic. What an mortals come together in a opportunity you have provided safe, non-judgmental space for us to grow, to learn and to to not only prepare for the ready ourselves and our families practical aspects of their for a richer, more comfortable death (like funeral planning others have never given any death box that will eventually be death.” and wills) but to also face their thought to it, usually due to fear a final parting gift to their loved If you are interested in how fears and to gently cozy up to the and denial. Some arrive ones. you, too, can truly rest in peace, reality that one day we will all comfortable with the topic at Each class builds on the please connect with me about die. The practicalities of death hand while others show up with previous class learnings so a fall/winter classes. preparation are vital but there are terror in their eyes. The course is commitment to attend each week ----- so many other things to consider comprised of weekly material, and complete the homework is ASK THE EXPERT: as you imagine the end of your up-to-date video clips, thought paramount in getting the most Julie Keon life. If you don't know what your provoking exercises, rich out of the course. At its end, Certified Life-Cycle Celebrant options are then you really don't discussion and guest speakers participants feel a sense of relief & Death Educator have any. who are experts in their field. and accomplishment. Planning Phone: 613-646-9912 Class participants arrive to the From the first to the final class, for and facing your death head [email protected] first class at varying degrees of each participant is guided on is deeply challenging. It is www.juliekeon.com death preparation. Some people through a series of steps so that worth the struggle, though, have an idea of what they want at its conclusion, they have knowing that, upon your death, and may have made plans, while created a beautiful, practical your loved ones will simply need

Celebrating Our 10th Anniversary! Joyce Layman 315 Pembroke Street East Vein Sclerotherapy CREA TIONS Botox Injections Juvederm Fillers Compression Stockings An individualized group Labyrinth Pillows insurance plan for employees of For relaxation and reflection Pembroke Regional Hospital Fidget Quilts For those with ADD, ADHD or If you currently work for the hospital autism and Alzheimer patients or are retired from working there, you (keeping fingers busy) qualify for the PRH group plan. Therapeutic ‘Magic’ Bags It’s worth a call to see how this plan Add heat to sore areas with small, could benefit you. Any employee, in medium and large heated magic bags any hospital department is eligible. Plus: adult bibs, aprons, boot covers, towels, pet labyrinth pillows and more Johnston Lorraine Shanahan, RN & [email protected] 315 Pembroke Street East, ackie Phone: 613-687-2896 Limited Pembroke, Ontario M 235 Biesenthal Road, Petawawa [email protected] Ph: 613-735-1046 facebook.com/joyce.layman.96 Phone: 613-281-2114 www.jmackie.com/group

HEALTH EXPERTS HEALTH MATTERS MAGAZINE PAGE 31 The growing number of 3) provide first aid, including overdoses and deaths caused by rescue breathing (CPR), if opioids (including fentanyl) has necessary, until emergency help been declared a national public arrives health crisis by the Government 4) stay calm and reassure the of Canada. The concern is so person that help is on the way great that new legislation has Spread The Word been passed to provide some If you know someone who legal protection for individuals uses drugs or who could be with who seek emergency help people who do use drugs, make during an overdose. them aware of the Good The Good Samaritan Drug Samaritan Drug Overdose Act so Overdose Act became law on they will be comfortable calling May 4, 2017. The hope is that for help if it is needed. the act will help to reduce fear For More Information of police attending overdose For more information on the events and encourage people to Be A Good Samaritan Good Samaritan Drug Overdose help save a life. Source: Government of Canada Act just search it in Google and What’s Covered choose the link to what you The Good Samaritan Drug The act applies to anyone trafficking of controlled would like to know. The full Overdose Act provides some seeking emergency support substances and all other crimes legislation is available, along legal protection for people who during an overdose, including not outlined within the act. with media articles that support experience or witness an the person experiencing an On Scene Help the adoption of the legislation. overdose and call 9-1-1 for help. overdose. The act protects those Drug overdoses often happen ----- The act can protect you if you who either stay or leave from the with others around. Staying at ASK THE EXPERT: are in breach of the following overdose scene before help the scene is important to save the Government of Canada arrives. life of the person experiencing conditions under section 4 (1) of 1-800-622-6232 What’s Not Covered an overdose. Witnesses should: the Controlled Drugs and Monday-Friday The act does not provide legal 1) call for emergency help Substances Act: parole, pre-trial 8:00am-5:00pm release, probation orders, simple protection against more serious 2) be prepared by carrying Dial 9-1-1 in case of a suspected possession and conditional offences, such as: outstanding naloxone to use if you suspect an sentences. warrants, production and opioid overdose opioid overdose.

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ACROSS 36. 17 in 1000 Canadian adults have of the healthiest foods on earth 37. A combination of flour and fat 6. Informal word for food this food allergy 5. This food is nothing to “bok” at used to thicken stews and sauces 8. A person who prefers local food 38. Also known as a line cook 7. The entire grain 38. It could be dairy or beef 9. Armenian stew of pig or cow feet 39. A castrated rooster 11. A classic French-Canadian soup 39. Canada didn't create the salad, 10. A Japanese soup 43. How you might like your eggs 13. Eggs: enough to set the whites but we did create the cocktail 12. A Hebrew measure of liquids 45. Sauce, milk, tofu and flour can be 14. Julia who said: “People who love 40. A unit of weight equal to 14 lbs 14. An edible mollusk made from this to eat are always the best people.” 41. A dessert bar that hails from BC 15. A popular spice in Mediterranean, 46. Back, pemeal or Canadian-style 15. Distinctly Canadian meat pie 42. Used to slash the tops of bread Cajun and Creole cuisines 48. A warm spicy tea from India 16. Masterchef applicances loaves in artisan baking 17. A tenderloin cut 50. The pea, for example 17. Soft confection 44. Where you would find a Mexican 18. Skin of lemon or orange 52. The official birthplace of the 20. Tools used to cook vegetable called “nopales” 19. Jerky made from bison or moose modern restaurant (18th century) 23. Nickname for a potato 47. Canada's most profitable crop, 21. Rids the body of toxins 55. One piece of spaghetti 24. Ketchup, relish and mustard once known as rapeseed 22. A portion of meat cut off of the rib 56. Units of energy from food 25. A sauce served with pasta 49. It’s $36,868 for this caviar, from a 23. Watermelon grower 57. Peanut, sesame, or palm 26. Fun food truck item from Mexico rare fish in the Caspian sea 24. Potato snack festival 58. Short form of cucumber 27. A short form of a pre-med major 50. When meat lacks fat 26. A common food order on Friday 59. Pasta and spuds, to marathoners 28. Consume food 51. Tea whitener 27. Sausages, to those in the UK DOWN 30. Have a meal 52. A food or black-eyed pop band 29. Cheese that isn't cheese at all 1. A potato-like vegetable 31. Another name for Iranian cuisine 53. Underground plant part 31. Bacteria that is good for you 2. “Green” friendly 32. A fibre from the husk of a coconut 54. Mix with a spoon 33. Celebrity chef Paula 3. Chinook, Chum, Coho, Sockeye, 35. A style of Chinese cuisine served 55. Ingredient in many bar snacks 34. Community pot cooking: meats, Cutthroat, Steelhead and Pink in small steamer baskets that triggers thirst cheese and chocolate 4. A wild cabbage relative that is one 36. Sushi without rice Answers on Page 36

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ART THERAPY DISABILITIES - INTELLECTUAL FUNDRAISING

Marillyn Saffery, RP, BFA, DipAT Community Living Upper Ottawa Valley Kin Club of Pembroke Registered Psychotherapist (CRPO) 894 Pembroke Street West, Pembroke [email protected] Phone: 613-735-1858 Phone: 613-735-0659 www.facebook.com/kinclubofpembroke [email protected] [email protected] Help us repave the runway at the Pembroke Art therapy uses visual images and art media www.cluov.ca & Area Airport and make a donation to the to help express feelings and emotions, Assisting people with intellectual disabilities Kin Club of Pembroke! For $250, you can explore difficult issues and develop self- to be included in the community through purchase a foot of runway to repave. We awareness. No art experience or talent is independent living, homecare supports, need the community to help us so we can needed. Clients are people of all ages and employment opportunities, continuing continue to provide a venue for critical backgrounds, from children to seniors. All education, volunteer and community emergency response (Ornge, MNR, OPP), sessions confidential. Free initial consultation. involvement, support workers, and more. business and special events (Rogers Hockey) Also seeking employers to assist. in our region. Details at: www.flycyta.ca BLOOD DONATION DOMESTIC VIOLENCE GOLF LESSONS Canadian Blood Services Phone: 1-888-236-6283 Bernadette McCann House Jennifer Layman www.blood.ca Phone: 613-732-3131 2113 Petawawa Boulevard, Petawawa www.facebook.com/itsinyoutogive Toll free: 1-800-267-4930 Phone: 613-732-7774 (Forward Thinking) Fall blood donor clinics: September 12 www.wsssbmh.org [email protected] (Petawawa), September 13 (Arnprior), The Bernadette McCann House provides The fall is a great time for golf lessons, September 14 (Almonte), October 10 safety, support and education to women, whether you are just learning or you want to (Pembroke), October 30 (Renfrew), children and those who experience abuse, get a head start on the 2018 season. November 6 (Eganville), November 14 including men. Our phones are available 24 Available for individuals and small groups. On (Garrison Petawawa). Every 60 seconds, hours a day. We offer a residential shelter, course lessons available. Island Brae Golf someone in Canada needs blood. Book your transitional support, child and youth services, Club. Improve your physical skills or let’s appointment online at www.blood.ca. Blood: as well as family court support. work on your golf psychology. Gift it’s in you to give. certificates are available. FITNESS CENTRES CHIROPRACTIC HEARING CARE Integrated Health Centre Integrated Health Centre 570 Nelson Street, Pembroke Heritage Hearing Care Dr. Nik Bair-Patel Phone: 613-732-3333 239 Pembroke Street West, Pembroke 570 Nelson Street, Pembroke www.integratedhealthcentre.ca Phone: 613-735-0776 Phone: 613-732-3333 Medical Exercise, personal training and a full www.heritagehearing.ca www.integratedhealthcentre.ca 24-hour fitness centre complete with far- Our team of experienced Audiologists, A chiropractic clinic that puts the client first. infrared sauna. Make it a membership and available Monday-Saturday, provides hearing Dr. Nik Bair-Patel has been helping people enjoy all the benefits of a professional health evaluations, tinnitus advice, amplification live without pain for many years, including facility. Join our classes, work out with our options, hearing aid fitting, repairs and treating people who have not been able to trainers and connect with our nutritionist for batteries, adjustments, custom hearing find relief anywhere else. Chiropractic, laser a complete health and fitness experience. protection and swim plugs, in Pembroke and therapy, acupuncture and more. See the We are your health centre. our clinics in Petawawa and Deep River. Let difference chiropractic can make. us help your ears to hear!

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Robbie Dean Centre Rowan’s Pharmasave Pembroke Pentecostal Tabernacle Phone: 613-629-4243 (24 hours) 115 Pembroke Street West, Pembroke Corner of Highways 41 and 17, Pembroke www.robbiedeancentre.com Phone: 613-732-2522 Phone: 613-732-9721 If you need someone to talk to, come to one [email protected] www.pptchurch.com of our walk-in clinics. Offered weekly in Your Downtown Pembroke pharmacy since Morning worship services on Sundays at Eganville, Pembroke, Renfrew and 1924. Let our pharmacists help you with 10:30am. Nursery and kids church available. Petawawa, come see us as a first step to get travel medication plans, health plans, weight Public is welcome. Bible study and prayer on the road to more positive mental health. management and connecting with drug groups for men and women separately and We are open to the whole community - benefits. Pharmacists are your most jointly. Also ask about our BG Club program there is no age minimum or limit. And our accessible health care provider so let us for kids. Spirituality for every member of services are entirely free of charge. Let us work for you. Welcoming new clients daily. your family. See our newly designed website know what’s on your mind. Newly renovated in 2017. for all the details.

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Loftus Foot Care Clinic Pembroke Golf Club Resurrection Lutheran Church 224 Pembroke Street West 253 Golf Course Road, Pembroke 250 Quarry Road, Pembroke Phone: 613-735-4007 Phone: 613-732-1665 Sites.advancedministry.com/Resurrection [email protected] | www.wefixfeet.ca www.pembrokegolfclub.ca LutheranChurch Jane Loftus is a Registered Kinesiologist and Golf is a great activity for people of any age Phone: 613-735-6921 Certified Fitter of compression stockings, and the fall season is one of the best times to Sunday Mornings: Worship at 10:30am; specializing in custom orthotics. Book an golf. Make a point of golfing with friends or Christian education for all ages at 9:00am. office appointment or Jane will come to your try a regular family outing. Rates for nine or Spiritual growth courses throughout the residence or workplace to measure your legs 18 holes. Consider joining the club and year. Topics: living out your faith, biblical for compression stockings, do a foot participating in many of our member outings, studies, relationships and cooking tips. Host assessment, computer gait analysis or an or come as a guest and play when you want. congregation of the Annual Public Bible employee health and wellness seminar. Watch for fall rate specials. Carts available. Reading. Pastor: Rev. Doug Kranz.

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Layman Fire & Safety Travel Our Backyard Magazine St. John’s Lutheran Church 235 Biesenthal Road, Pembroke 101 Things to Do in the Valley 605 Black Bay Road, Petawawa Phone: 613-732-5320 or 613-687-2896 www.travelourbackyard.com Phone: 613-687-6187 www.laymanfireandsafety.com www.facebook.com/travelourbackyard Services every Sunday at 10:00am. Sunday Eye wash stations, first aid kits and supplies, Looking for ways to be active this year? Pick school also available for children. Welcoming hand sanitizer, disposable gloves and up a copy of Travel Our Backyard magazine friends and family as well as visitors - our coveralls, sharps container, stretchers, or subscribe to our free list of 101 Things to doors are open to you. Variety of groups masks, welding respirators, emergency Do in the Valley. Packed with local activities. (cards for seniors, choir, Lutheran women, showers, face shields, spray-on bandage and Both are free, but be warned - once you visiting committee) to be involved with if you more. Safety products for your employees have these publication, you’re out of excuses choose. Proud to celebrate 150 years in and for the workplace. Inspections and to get moving! Plenty of ways to stay active 2017. Come meet Pastor Albert, our new services you can count on to be accurate. right in your own backyard. minister.

PET HEALTH SENIORS THEATRE

M&R Feeds and Farm Supply Deep River & District Physiotherapy Stone Fence Theatre Micksburg | Phone: 613-735-3689 117-A Banting Drive, Deep River Locations throughout the area Pembroke | Phone: 613-732-2843 [email protected] | Phone: 613-584-9118 Toll Free: 1-866-310-1004 Shawville | Phone: 819-647-2814 Fall Classes. Do you have pain or stiffness in www.stonefence.ca www.mandrfeeds.com your hips or knees? GLA:D CANADA They say laughter is the best medicine and We know your pet is important to you and program for anyone with osteoarthritis. 8- we have some laughter for you! “Stick Out your family so we offer a broad range of week exercise and education program. Your Tongue and Say MOO” is our play this quality food and related products from Begins September 11, 2017. Also, Falls year and we have several performances respected manufacturers that correspond to Prevention classes for seniors living at home. throughout September and October. your budget. Food for dogs, cats, rabbits and 12-week program. Begins September 25, Westmeath (Sept.15), Eganville (Sept. 16, 23, gerbils. Litter, bedding, cages, kennels, travel 2017. No referral necessary. Held at the 30 and Oct. 14), Pembroke (Oct. 20, 21) and crates, fencing, bowls, feeders and more. Deep River & District Hospital. Killaloe (Oct. 29). We’ll see you there!

HEALTH SERVICES HEALTH MATTERS MAGAZINE PAGE 35 Share Ingredients If a recipe calls for a special ingredient, Crossword find a friend (or two) and split on the Meal Plans purchase. Chances are that if you won’t ANSWERS use the ingredient often, neither will they. On A Budget This way you will all save! ACROSS DOWN Cook Seasonally 6. chow 1. yam Fruit and vegetables are cheaper when 8. locavore 2. eco they’re in season. 9. khash 3. salmon Love Your Leftovers 10. miso 4. kohlrabi Make a Menu Think about how you can use leftovers. If 12. hin 5. choy Decide which recipes you will make for you’re cooking roast chicken with rice 14. clam 7. whole lunch and dinner and make a grocery list and vegetables on Sunday night, make 15. thyme 11. split pea from there. When you have a plan, you chicken sandwiches for Monday lunch. 17. filet 13. coddled are less likely to reach for convenience Use the bones to make a chicken soup 18. rind 14. child meals. When you have a list, you are less and toss in any leftover vegetables and 19. pemmican 15. tourtiere likely to make impulsive purchases. rice for Tuesday. 21. detox 16. miele Find The Sales Make Extra 20. tup 17. fudge Be aware of the sales taking place when Don’t let a big bunch of carrots or celery 22. riblet 20. utensil you go to shop and plan your food go to waste. Use it all up by making an 23. seed 23. spud purchases. Be sure to buy foods your extra big pot of soup, or chop it and 24 chip fest 24. condiments family will actually eat, so they don’t go to freeze it. If ground beef is on sale, make 26. takeout 25. pesto waste. two lasagnas instead of one. Serve one 27. bangers 26. taco Know Your Stock batch for dinner, and freeze the other 29. head 27. bio Be aware of the expiry dates of the food batch in meal-sized portions for another 31. probiotic 28. eat you have at home. Which ones do you time. 33. Deen 30. dine need to use up? Look for recipes that use Buy What People Like 34. fondue 31. Persian those foods and ingredients. Encourage your family to share their 36. shellfish 32. coir Eat More Grains favourites and help with menu planning. 38. commis 35. dim Grains like rice, pasta, barley and That way you can look for favourite 39. capon 36. sashimi couscous are inexpensive and can be ingredients and foods when they go on 43. scrambled 37. roux 45. soy 38. cow used in many different recipes. Try them sale. And, you’ll have less waste. in soups, stews and salads. 46. bacon 39. Caesar 48. chai 40. stone Eat Right Ontario was our inspiration for this list, but we did 50. legume 41. Nanaimo modify it a little. For their original list, visit: www.eatrightontario.ca/en/Budget 52. Paris 42. lame 55. strand 44. cactus 56. calories 47. canola Direct Farm Markets By The Numbers 57. oil 49. Almas 58. cuke 50. lean

There are 1,680 direct farm markets (DFM) in Ontario. SOURCE: ONTARIO FARM FRESH 59. carbs 51. milk 52. peas DFMs make up 3% of all Ontario farms. 53. root Average gross income per DFM farm: $375,000 54. stir 55. salt 75% of DFM farms had revenue increases in the past three years. Direct Farm Markts in Ontario How can you govern contribute approximately $1,260,000,000 to the a country which has provincial economy. 246 varieties of cheese?

- CHARLES DE GAULLE President of France (1959-1969) Direct Farm Markets are farms that deal directly with the customer. This occurs through on-farm sales, pick-your-own or off-site vending such as farmers’ markets.

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HOW SHOULD METABOLIC DETOXIFICATION WORK? UNHEALTHY DIET HERBICIDES INSECTICIDES The body is naturally designed to undergo 3 separate phases of the purification process. Environmental overload combined with a lack of nutrients can undermine or alter this process, leading to various health-relate concerns. The three phases are as follows:

PHASE I - Functionalization Enzymes in the liver break down xenobiotics POLLUTED WATER SANITIZERS ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION (foreign chemical substances), which produces highly reactive, free radical molecules that can impact cellular function unless further processed.

Potentially harmful programs may lead to: PHASE II - Conjugation Large molecules join together with modified Slow xenobiotics to produce water-soluble substances Metabolism that could be removed from the body. NOT ALL DETOXIFICATION PROGRAMS ARE “SAFE” Blood Sugar Muscle Imbalance A practitioner-supervised detoxification program Loss PHASE III - Elimination is the safest. Typical cleanses and juice fasts actually During elimination, water-soluble deprive your body of the essential nutrients it needs, causing unwanted side effects. substances are excreted mainly Upset via the urine or stool. Stomach

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