• Get adequate amounts of sleep.
• Stay hydrated – with water.
• Eat a balanced diet – whole foods, vegetables and fruits. A diet high in antioxidants, minerals and vitamins.
• Dress properly – warm appropriate clothing. Cover the back of your neck. There are superficial meridians that run along the back of your neck and when exposed to cold weather they become easily invaded and the body can begin to develope signs and symptoms of a cold.
• Echinacea tea and/or oil of oregano – daily or every other day, as we transition into winter.
• Probiotics – healthy intestinal fora promotes a healthy immune system. Take as a supplement, or incorporate yogurt into your diet.

Home Remedy

For very initial cold signs and symptoms such as fatigue, scratchy throat, body aches, slight chills.

• 5 slices of ginger – about 3mm. thick (can leave skin on)
• 5 blubs of green onion – about 1-1.5 inches

Boil in 2 litres of water for about 5-7 min. (no longer than 10, as these are fragrant herbs and over cooking them will cause them to lose their healing properties). It is okay to add a little brown sugar or honey if you’d like. Do your best to drink the whole decoction in one sitting, and wrap yourself in a blanket to promote sweating.

Do this AS SOON AS you feel a cold coming on. If you have had the cold for a few days already this will not work.

Kitchen Cupboard

Cold type cold

Symptoms – Body aches, more chills, runny nose

Herbs – ginger, garlic, perilla leaf, cinnamon

Heat type cold

Symptoms – Feverish/sweating, stufffy nose, sore throat

Herbs – Peppermint, eucalyptus, chrysanthemum, mulberry leaf

If you are feeling any of the above symptoms, you can incorporate these herbs into your diet or drink as tea.

Any questions – sara.dtcm@gmail.com

Are Leggings Bad For You?

By
Joanna Douglas

Leggings are one of those garments you either love or you hate, but we think they’re awesome. They’re great for the gym or hanging around at home, but they’re equally wonderful with a tunic and boots or layered under a dress for warmth in the winter. And while they’re beyond comfortable and seem to hold all your jiggly bits in place, they may actually be bad for you. Say it
ain’t so!

British physiotherapist Sammy Margo says that while leggings feel slimming and wonderful, they’re making your muscles lazy. “They hold in and support the quadriceps (thigh muscles), buttocks and core muscles in your tummy, and do the job the muscles are supposed to do,” Margo told the Daily Mail. “As a result, the muscles are allowed to relax and switch off, so when we reveal our bodies for the first time as summer approaches, they are not as svelte or firm as they otherwise
would be.”

Wow, so while we got lazy about fashion, our bodies got lazy too? Margo added that by wearing leggings all the time we’re just ignoring the problem. “Leggings hide the bits of our bodies we don’t like, such as the cellulite on our legs or our ‘muffin top’ so we are able to ignore the problem and we are less motivated to exercise these parts.” Crap, she might be right.

So in other words, a winter full of leggings will make our bodies worse off for swimsuit season. Could this mean the end of leggings? And JEGGINGS? The Daily Mail suggests walking around in ankle weights and doing core exercises with a string around your waist (what?), but we’re going to hit the gym after work. Just in case.

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We’ve been doing some investigating to figure out which insurance companies allow for direct billing and which don’t.

Our direct billing is for both massage and acupuncture treatments.

Currently we direct bill for the following insurance companies:

       Great West Life, Green Shield, and Manulife.

Currently Blue Cross is working on it (not sure when that’ll happen but we’ll keep checking in with them to find out when they do)

There are other companies that we are still inquiring about, and others that you need to let us know about and we will give them a call.

For more information please contact us via email backatitmassage@yahoo.ca

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Read more →]]> So we’ve had our first snow fall and wow there are so many posts about it on Facebook! So the question now is what should I do before the ski hill opens….

DONT BE A LAZY

I’ve been fighting those yawns like that fat elf, and fighting the urge to go back to bed. Its hard, its dark out in the morning and in the evening.

I’ve noticed an increase in the number of people coming to the crossfit gym that I work out at. So I guess my first suggestion is Go to the Gym

2. Take a spin class

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3.Start Yoga

Maybe its time to start, restart, try again, or continue. I am always hit and miss with yoga. I can’t seem to get into it, but I’m gonna give it another shot and find the class that’s right for me. There are so many yoga studios in Canmore and so many classes to try such as; Ashtanga, Fow, Yin, Yin Yang, Yoga Jam, Hot Yoga, Therapeutic Yoga, Kundalini, and I am sure I’m missing a few more.

4. Try Pilates

Have you ever tried it? I think it is the biggest Mind F@*k Seriously, if you try it you’ll see what I mean. It takes the most concentration to try to activate this but not that. Move the cage out but not fall off.

5. Go for a hike in the snow: The snow is so minimal now and going for a hike in it is so refreshing. A friend of mine introduced me to Wind Ridge. We biked from our houses in Cougar Creek to 3 sisters and then stashed our bikes in the woods and hiked up the ridge. What a beauty and such an easy place to get to from your house. Round trip it took us around 3 hours.

6. Check out some music

Communitea  hosts some talented musicians

such as Current Swell

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Banff Centre has its film fest on now. Music, dance and book festival.

7. Take your dog for a walk, or my dog for a walk, or your friends dog for a walk

“We know that Barbie’s body is anatomically impossible. So why are we still trying for it?

Every day a new plastic surgery promise emerges: scooped-out backs, rear-end lifts, sculpted kneecaps. If it’s possible, it’s suddenly necessary.

But what exactly would you have to go through to get the ‘perfect’ Barbie body? In the latest issue of O Magazine, model Katie Halchishick becomes the human diagram.

Posing for photographer Matthew Rolston, her glamorous, Marilyn Monroe-type features are surgically outlined according to Barbie’s proportions.

Here’s a breakdown of what she’d need done to be the kind of doll women aspire to: a brow lift, a jaw line shave, rhinoplasty, a cheek and neck reduction, a chin implant, scooped-out shoulders, a breast lift, liposuction on her arms, and tummy tuck, which would also have to be sculpted as if it were lined in whale-bone from the inside. And that’s just the half of her.”

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3. $100  185 snoop daddy, 88mm, drilled once for salomon demos
4. $100  170 or 190 Heli daddy (same as the sugar daddy, and tele daddy)
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