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Weighing in on Canada’s new Food Guide
by Claudette Pelletier-Hannah
You may have heard that Canada’s new Food Guide was released this week, the first major revision in 12 years.…

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A Client’s Story – I Did it My Way
by Claudette Pelletier-Hannah
A client, whom I will call Ann, came to me looking to start a fitness program. She knew what to…

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One Dozen Butter Tarts and the Big Picture
by Claudette Pelletier-Hannah
Not a baker’s dozen, but one measly dozen. Twelve. That’s how many butter tarts I baked for Christmas. Given the…

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Building Health
by Claudette Pelletier-Hannah
The last few months I have been working with a web designer on a new iteration of my website. For…

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“Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry – all forms of fear are caused by too much future – and not enough presence.”

―Eckhart Tolle

“To keep a lamp burning we must keep putting oil in it.”

―Mother Teresa

“You wouldn’t worry how much others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

“Happiness is not merely a feeling or a golden promise but a practice.”

– Aristotle

“Food is an important part of a balanced diet.”

―Fran Lebowitz

“Happiness can only exist in acceptance.”

– George Orwell

“Life itself is the proper binge.”

―Julia Child

“The mind can stay engaged with data forever but it‘s the heart that actually instigates change.”

―Dr. Christiane Northrup

“The trouble with eating Italian is that 5 or 6 days later, you’re hungry again.”

―George Miller

“I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn to do it.”

―Pablo Picasso

“Know then, whatever cheerful and serene supports the mind, supports the body too.”

―John Armstrong

“We are disturbed not by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens.”

―Greek philosopher, Epictetus

“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in day-out.”

– Robert Collier

“Let‘s face the music and dance.”

―Irving Berlin

“God made food, the devil, the cooks.”

―James Joyce, Ulysses

“The mind can stay engaged with data forever but it’s the heart that actually instigates change.”

―Christiane Northrup

“I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”

― Carl Gustav Jung