Health Insight
Asthma, Allergies & Better Breathing
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Navigating Summer With Food Allergy: Tips and Resources
As you take part in your summer plans, these tips and resources can help you manage food allergy safely and confidently throughout the season. Get-togethers The warmer weather calls for BBQs, picnics, parties and more with family and friends. Help hosts factor in food allergy, with considerations for ingredients, and the prep and serving of...
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Get a Sleep Apnea Diagnosis in the Comfort of Your Own Home
Sleep disorders are common, but long clinic wait times make getting diagnosed challenging. Sleep Efficiency offers at-home sleep tests with quick results. Getting a good night’s sleep is an uphill battle for many Canadians, but an undiagnosed sleep disorder shouldn’t be an added burden. Unfortunately, lengthy wait times at sleep clinics — up to a...
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Quitting Smoking Can Help You Look Better and Breathe
Discover how combination therapy can help you quit smoking for good. For many Canadians, quitting smoking will be one of the hardest things they ever do in their lives. Quitting involves overcoming social, mental, and physical challenges, and most people require numerous attempts before they are able to quit for good.[1] And yet, despite the challenges...
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Air Voel Makes Choosing the Best CPAP Machine for You Easy
If you’re one of the millions of Canadians living with sleep apnea, getting properly diagnosed and treated is easier than you think. Sleep apnea, a disorder characterized by repeated breathing interruptions during sleep, can cause loud snoring, gasping for air, and restless sleep. We have many heathy young men and women on CPAP it may...
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Clear the Air and Let Life Be Lived: Reasons to Improve Your Indoor Air Quality
Clear the Air and Let Life Be Lived: Reasons to Improve Your Indoor Air Quality. Do you ever stop to think about the air you breathe in your home? Most of us don’t. We take it for granted. Indoor air pollution is that unwanted (and invisible) house quest. It can lead to serious health issues,...
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6 Practical Steps to Keep Your Asthma Managed this Wildfire Season
As threats of wildfires spread across Canada, Asthma Canada is urging individuals living with asthma to take additional precautions for their safety. Wildfire smoke contains many harmful pollutants including fine particulate matter that settles deep in the lungs. For those with asthma and other respiratory conditions, wildfires present an escalated risk, as the smoke can...
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Diving into Respiratory Health with Maggie Mac Neil
Mediaplanet sat down with Canadian Olympic Swimmer Maggie Mac Neil to chat about her journey to becoming a Gold Medalist while living with Asthma, and some of the keys to managing symptoms.
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How Sleep Apnea Obstructs Couples’ Sleep: Q&A With Krista London
Mediaplanet sat down with Krista London to discuss her partners’ sleep apnea, its impact on her own sleeping, and how she’s adapted.
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How Sleep Apnea Obstructs Couples’ Sleep: Q&A With Dominique Baker
Mediaplanet sat down with Dominique Baker to discuss her partners’ sleep apnea, its impact on her own sleeping, and how she’s adapted.