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 very 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. 176 Len Hopkins Drive, Petawawa. Visit www.flycyta.ca/Canada150 or www.facebook.com/flycyta. 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. 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