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15+ Anti-Inflammatory, Gut-Healthy Snack Recipes

Tasty and healthy, these snacks can help you meet your nutritional needs. Ingredients like Greek yogurt, raspberries, chickpeas and garlic are both gut-healthy and anti-inflammatory foods. This means these snacks can help aid in healthy digestion as well as relieve symptoms of inflammation such as joint stiffness, mental fog and high blood pressure. Recipes like our Purple Fruit Salad and Cottage Cheese with Raspberry Honey are ideal for a midday pick-me-up.


Purple Fruit Salad


Serve this refreshing fruit salad featuring juicy plums, grapes and berries on its own or with other colorblock fruit salads (like red, green and orange) for a fun, crowd-pleasing rainbow side dish.



Almost Chipotle’s Guacamole


Make guacamole at home that tastes just like it came from Chipotle–but don’t worry, our version won’t be extra! This deliciously fresh guac is perfect for topping burrito bowls or tacos, or serving as an appetizer or healthy snack with tortilla

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New Baby? Time to Update Your Estate Plan

We often have clients ask us when the best time to do their estate plan is and the answer is usually, right now! This is especially true for people turning 18 years old, people who don’t have a plan, and people who have had recent life changes.

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One event that should trigger you to meet with an estate planning attorney is a new baby. When you are expanding your family, that comes with a lot of changes and responsibilities.

Once you have children, you need to consider a variety of things you’ve never had to think about before.

Some of these include:

  1. Who would you want to take care of your child if something happened to the parents?
  2. Do you
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Are UPFs really that bad? Here’s what food experts say on the rise of ultra-processed foods

Vegans eat more ultra-processed foods than any other diet. How bad is that really for health and the environment?

Veganism has the potential to promote healthy eating as people ditch meat – but the rise of ultra-processed foods (UPFs) could barely have any positive effects.

Product launches for plant-based convenience foods tripled between 2013 and 2018. In the UK, half the population have added meat substitutes to their diets, while almost a third opt for alternative milks.

Many of these plant-based substitutes are classified as UPFs: foods that have undergone heavy processing to improve their perishability and taste. UPFs are often high in salt, sugar and saturated fat, with additional colorings, preservatives and additives.

In France, UPFs comprise 39.5 per cent of the total calorie intake in a typical vegan diet – more than for vegetarians and meat eaters.

A study in Germany discovered that although general consumption of ultra-processed

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Eating healthy is hard. It’s even harder for people who can barely afford to eat at all

Canned pudding and fruit on a food bank shelf
It’s becoming more expensive to eat healthy, and food banks are having trouble keeping up with the demand. (Nicola MacLeod/CBC)

Household food insecurity is directly linked to health issues, including heart disease and diabetes. For someone living with a food ailment like celiac disease or diabetes, going to the grocery store is a big expense, and specialty foods are not usually available through food charities. That means their nutritional needs are often not met.

More than 26,000 Newfoundlanders and Labradorians rely on food banks regularly, but many of these stopgap measures can’t meet an increasing demand.

Julie Greene, assistant executive director of Celiac Canada, says a gluten-free diet is the only relief for celiac disease.

“Currently, there is no treatment, there’s no cure,” she said. “The only medicine is eating food that is gluten-free. And unfortunately, the cost of gluten-free food is incredibly expensive right now.”

Tracking down specialty foods

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Some doctors are using AI chatbots to help deliver bad news to patients, the report says

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Some doctors are using AI chatbots to help deliver bad news to patients, the report says

According to the New York Times, some doctors are using AI chatbots like ChatGPT to communicate with patients — even helping doctors deliver bad medical news in a more empathetic way or write scripts to speak to patients more compassionately.

“I know physicians are using this,” one expert at Stanford Health Care told the New York Times about chatbots. “I’ve heard of residents using it to guide clinical decision making. I don’t think it’s appropriate.”

Microsoft Corporate Vice President Peter Lee said he had anticipated that many doctors would use the new technology to help eliminate some of

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Health officials won’t publicly admit the scale of ‘crisis’ at Surrey Memorial Hospital ER, doctors’ letter says

Dozens of physicians working inside the busiest emergency room in British Columbia have released a scathing letter describing an unrelenting “crisis” at the department, claiming the local health authority has “repeatedly” asked them to keep details of the situation from the public.

The medical professionals at Surrey Memorial Hospital said it’s become necessary to speak out in violation of communications protocol because health-care leaders have not been transparent about the dire reality of overcrowding and inadequate staffing in the facility.

More than 35 emergency physicians at the hospital backed the page-long letter that said patients were suffering and, in some cases, dying in hallways as a result of “steadily worsening” problems.

“We have been repeatedly sounding the alarm to our regional and provincial leaders; these alarms have been ignored,” read the letter dated Friday and obtained by CBC News.

“Additionally, these conditions have been poorly and incompletely communicated to the

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Can Your Practice Afford a Data Breach?

Probably not.

A recent study found that the total average cost of a healthcare breach is $10.10 million.

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Can your healthcare practice afford a breach? Most healthcare entities cannot.

Since 2020, healthcare breach costs have risen by 42%.

As we know healthcare breaches are incessant, it is important to understand trends.

The trends that have emerged over the past few years are:

  1. Repeat attacks. Many healthcare entities have seen repeat attacks. Organizations with automated security systems were able to shorten the breach lifecycle and mitigate the damage caused by the breach.
  2. Consistent causes. The most common cause of data breaches were stolen credentials. Ransomware also continues to plague healthcare entities, with ransomware increasing by 41% in
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Mediterranean diet may reduce risk of dementia, Alzheimer’s, science shows

A diet that is rich in seafood, fruit, vegetables, nuts and olive oil may lower the risk of dementia, a new study suggests.

An analysis of data from more than 60,000 seniors revealed that choosing to follow a Mediterranean diet reduces a person’s likelihood of developing dementia by nearly one quarter published, even among those with genes that put that at greater risk, according to the report Monday in the medical journal BMC Medicine.

“The main take home message from this study is that, even for individuals with a higher genetic risk, consuming a more Mediterranean-like diet could reduce the likelihood of developing dementia,” said the study’s lead author, Oliver Shannon, a lecturer in human nutrition and aging at Newcastle University.

Among people whose food choices least resembled a Mediterranean diet, “about 17 in every 1,000 individuals developed dementia during the approximately nine year study follow-up period,” Shannon said in

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Manitoba increases funding for seniors’ health and social programs

WINNIPEG –

The Manitoba government is increasing funding for some programs that provide health and social support for seniors.

The province is adding $12.6 million a year to a program that helps people co-ordinate and manage their home-care services.

Another $1.3 million will go to expand Manitoba palliative care, starting in the Southern health region.

Habitat for Humanity Manitoba will get $450,000 to expand a service that renovates the homes of low-income seniors so that they can continue living in their residences

Other money will go to a program that helps reduce social isolation for LBGTQ seniors.

Scott Johnston, the minister for seniors and long-term care, said there will be more funding announced in the coming weeks as part of a broad seniors strategy that followed public consultations in recent months.

“The strategy encourages seniors to live healthy and productive lives in our community, making Manitoba an ideal place to

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Sleep this way to add years to your life

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Want to live longer? Then prioritize sleep in your life: Following five good sleep habits added nearly five years to a man’s life expectancy and almost 2.5 years to a woman’s life, a new study found.

“If people have all of these ideal sleep behaviors, they are more likely to live longer,” said study coauthor Dr. Frank Qian, a clinical fellow in medicine at Harvard Medical School and internal medicine resident physician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.

“If we can improve sleep overall, and identifying sleep disorders is especially important, we may be able to prevent some of this premature mortality,” Qian said in a statement.

What do you do? First, make sure you get a full seven to eight hours of sleep each night.

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