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When looking good is your job, you begin to take what you put in your mouth more seriously. We’ve all been envious of celebrities’ glowing skin, toned figures and shiny hair. While the diets they follow to achieve these results may be quite different (from cleanses to anti-inflammatory regimens to fasting), they all have one […]

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It seems we’ve been riding a wave of “non-diet” diets as of late: paleo, veganism and gluten-free nutrition lifestyles have become more important than cutting calories or losing weight. But now there’s a new way of eating that’s gaining momentum among celebs and gym rats alike: fasting. Or more specifically, intermittent fasting. Although it’s not […]

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As a personal trainer and nutrition coach, I can’t tell you how many times I hear clients complain about gaining weight despite their super-healthy kitchen game. “All I eat is smoothies and salads. WTF?” The problem is, we’ve been inundated with nutrition information that is simply flawed. Words like “healthy fats,” “whole grains,” “superfood” and […]

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  Many people think there’s no such thing as eating too healthfully. In principle, that’s true, but unfortunately these days eating well is akin to keeping up with the Joneses: we want the greenest juice, most alkaline salad and coolest eating regimen. And while, certainly, there’s a benefit to eating and drinking lots of fruits […]

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Before I began writing this piece I sat back and tried to think of all the different diets I’ve subscribed to over the years. It all started with Atkins back in high school, natch. In college I bought the entire Suzanne Somers diet book series. My early 20s were the completely calorie restrictive years, or […]

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A photo posted by Meghan Telpner (@meghantelpner) on Oct 4, 2015 at 3:09pm PDT I’ve always been a believer that labels are for tin cans, not our diets. Our best bet is to go into designing our diets by looking at the nutrient power in the actual food and how it will best serve us, […]

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It’s there first thing in the morning as you step into the shower. It nags at you while you’re getting dressed. It haunts you while you eat. It consumes you at the gym. “It” is negative self-talk. You know, that voice inside your head that continually tells you that you’re not good enough, thin enough, […]

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Sitting across from Alison Sweeney in Vancouver, where she’s flown in as spokesperson for Arm & Hammer’s Truly Radiant line of whitening and enamel-strengthening toothpaste, is like sitting across from a motivational speaker. And it’s no surprise, since she was surrounded by the best of them during her time as host of The Biggest Loser, […]

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These days, stylish accessories go beyond the PS1 and into the realm of the It beverage (kombucha, anyone?). We do what Gwynnie does, and Madonna disciples are more than ready to chug what she chugs (both stars are reportedly fans of the probiotic-packed bevvy). Superfoods come and go, though, and sometimes at fast-fashion speed. Believe us, you’re not alone if you’ve ever been struck by analysis paralysis in the health food aisle. Here, our panel of nutrition experts gives us the scoop on the foods that everyone’s talking about.

Have you ever invested in a gym membership only to use it but once a month? Made a promise to stop eating sugar and carbs only to give in the moment a dessert plate is offered? Our western editor Joy Pecknold can certainly relate, which is why she jumped at the chance to try Vancouver’s newest (and probably the hippest) three-in-one healthy lifestyle program, The Tight Life.

A holy trinity of trainer, nutritionist and chef, are behind The Tight Life. Three Vancouverites—Keighty Gallagher, Carley Mendes and Christina Culver—dreamt it up to solve a common dilemma: when you cleanse, you have no energy to exercise, whereas if you do a boot camp it, it’s common to binge on bad food posthaste. The solution is so simple, it hurts: “A combination of healthy diet and regular exercise.” D’oh! Actually doing it is the tricky part, so they facilitate. I took their three-week Glory Zone package, which includes two hour-long group workouts a week with Gallagher, weekly nutrition guidance by Mendes and two post-workout salads a week made by Culver.

It’s less than two weeks into 2013 and we bet many of you have already wavered on your New Year’s Resolutions. We get it. They’re hard, they usually offer no immediate gratification and they’re just not fun. Health-related resolutions mostly lead to drastic short-term changes (like spending January drinking only maple water or working out eight times a week) that leave you burnt out and resenting anything that vaguely promises to be good for you until next December rolls around. But baby changes can make a really big difference when they’re followed for the whole year. Here are a few mini resolutions that are making my life a bit healthier in 2013.

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The fat has long been sucked out of our food in the name of health. Rani Sheen weighs the newest thinking on good fat.

Imagine a world where you got to the front of the coffee shop line and didn’t feel compelled to say the word “skinny” before the word “latte.” Or where, facing down the legions of yogurt options at the grocery store, your hand bypassed the zero per cent Greek yogurt, landing instead on the full-fat version. The idea that fat is bad for us has become so all-pervasive that it is now fixed firmly in our minds that full-fat dairy, bacon or even a hefty serving of avocado are flabby demons waiting to send chub to our waists and clog our arteries. But a growing school of thought is suggesting that actually, it isn’t fat that makes us fat.

The low-fat movement took off in the early 1980s, largely informed by the “Seven Countries” study begun in 1958 and published in 1980 by physiologist Dr. Ancel Keys (who popularized the Mediterranean diet and BMI as an indicator of body fat). It showed a strong link between dietary fat and heart disease, though Keys has since been accused of disregarding countries that didn’t fit the hypothesis, plus he only studied men. Other research followed, and in 1984 the National Institutes of Health recommended all Americans over the age of two reduce their dietary consumption of fat from 40 to 30 per cent of their total calories. Canada followed suit. This ushered in the era of margarine, skim milk and boneless, skinless chicken breasts.