Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS)

PCOS is one of the most common hormonal disorders affecting about 6-20% of reproductive-aged women worldwide. Symptoms of PCOS include weight gain, acne, excessive hair growth, and few or no menstrual cycle for many months. PCOS can lead to metabolic dysregulation, menstrual disturbances, and fertility challenges.

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Lifestyle Medicine and COVID-19

Lifestyle Medicine is is an emerging, growing field that emphasizes on improvement of health, prevention, and treatment of diseases. It applies evidence-based lifestyle therapeutic approaches such as a predominantly whole food plant-based diet, exercise, sleep, stress management, tobacco cessation, alcohol moderation, emotional resiliency, and other non-drug modalities to prevent, treat, and possibly reverse lifestyle-related chronic and non-communicable disease.

The fundamental principles of lifestyle medicine allows and assists individuals and communities to adopt, sustain behaviours to ultimately improve health and quality of life.

Plant- Based Diets for Health and Environmental Sustainability

There is an increased interest in plant-based diets. These are dietary patterns that include higher proportions of plant-based foods, including nuts, seed and legumes, fruits, vegetables, and whole grains with small quantities of animal foods. In Canada alone, 40% of population are actively trying to incorporate more plant-based foods into their diets. The shift to plant-based diets are mainly due to environmental sustainability, improved nutrient and health outcomes. Body of evidence has suggested that a plant-based diet is environmentally sustainable as it has a lower carbon footprint and produce less greenhouse gas emissions. A plant based diet could lead to higher intakes of dietary fibre, micronutrients, and unsaturated fat. Relative to this, health outcomes are improved with lower risk for CVD, type 2 diabetes, obesity, cancer, and all-cause mortality.

Healthy Habits Happy Homes Podcast- Guest Episode

In the season finale of the podcast, we are excited to feature our podcast team, including our co-hosts Tamara Petresin, a Registered Dietitian and second-year PhD candidate in Applied Human Nutrition and Marciane Any, a second-year Master's student in Applied Human Nutrition. We also have Patricia Acosta, our podcast coordinator, who recently completed her Master's degree in Human Health and Nutritional Sciences. In this episode, Tamara, Marciane, and Patricia share insights into their research activities and discuss how they got involved in podcasting