A national survey suggests the vast majority of Canadians planned to get vaccinated against COVID-19 when the country's rollout began, but intentions were lower among certain demographics, including residents of Alberta and racialized communities.
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Canadians are growing frustrated with current U.S. travel rules that allow them to fly — but not drive — to the U.S. during the COVID-19 pandemic.
What students face heading back to class during this fourth wave of COVID-19 will look strikingly different depending on where they live in the country.
The province is not making an announcement about a vaccine passport system in Ontario Tuesday, a spokesperson for Premier Doug Ford's office says.
Alberta has been facing thousands of new coronavirus cases since last week — and according to frontline workers, it's mostly in unvaccinated people. Dr. Aisha Mirza has been talking about it with her COVID-19 patients in the emergency department at Grey Nuns Community Hospital in Edmonton.
Back in the days, the answer to how bariatric surgery works was rather simple. Mechanistically, you either caused surgical restriction (e.g. vertical banded gastroplasty, adjustable gastric banding) or malabsorption (e.g. jejuno-ileostomy, bilio-pancreatic diversion).
In the meantime, we know that neither restriction nor malabsorption play a significant role (if any) in why bariatric surgery works.
Rather, we now believe that the remarkable long-term success of these surgical interventions is based on important metabolic changes induced by these procedures, thus prompting the renaming of bariatric to metabolic surgery.
But what exactly are the metabolic changes induced by the various current procedures, and how do they contribute to the weight loss and other metabolic changes seen in these patients?
This is now the topic of an extensive review by Alina Akalestou and colleagues, published in Endocrine Reviews.
In this paper, the authors discuss what is known about the roles of alterations in the neuroendocrine mechanisms of central appetite control (both wanting and liking), release of gut peptides that change hunger and satiety, as well as change in microbiota and bile acids.
In addition they briefly review the possibility that metabolic surgery impairs adaptive thermogenesis thereby resulting in a greater metabolic rate than to be expected given the magnitude of weight loss.
Overall, the mechanisms are clearly manifold and complex and may vary substantially based on the actual surgical procedure but also on the time course following surgery.
Clearly better understanding these mechanisms should not only inform surgical innovations but also help identify potential pharmacological targets for novel anti-obesity medications.
@DrSharma
Berlin, D
South Korean officials are expressing cautious hope that COVID-19 transmissions are beginning to slow, after battling the country's worst wave of infections for weeks.
Does your client complain of an ‘overall feeling of collapse and weakness’ in their cores? Is your client getting increasingly self-conscious about their rounded, protruding belly ‘pooch’ – and desperate for your help in getting rid of it?
This crop tank is really cute with high-waisted leggings or shorts – I love the square neck detail. The fabric is SO soft and the cut is very flattering. I already want another color.
My staple pair of skinny jeans. I tried the wide-leg thing and I just can’t do it, so I’ll be over here in my skinny jeans and side part hair forever.
Fun leggings when you want to spice things up a bit! These are so cute with a sweater and low-top sneakers.
I couldn’t help ordering this for P and it’s even better in real life. It’s great quality and little ear hoodies are just the most adorable thing ever.
The most flattering “muscle tank” – I’m obsessed!
Enough said. This is my go-to everyday bra – so comfortable! It’s wireless (I haaaaate underwire), gives ya a little shape and smoothness, and comes in a variety of colors. It’s not the *sexiest* bra, but is the perfect everyday t-shirt bra.
If he’s not in uniform, the Pilot is wearing one of these Lululemon polos. I love that they look a little bit dressed-up but still casual enough for any activity.
This bralette adds a little something extra with a tank top; I have the blush color.
Love the length of these bike shorts. They’re super comfortable and what I wear for Peloton rides or yoga.
This Theragun massage bundle is so helpful for recovery! I try to use it a few times a week to help my muscles recover from workouts.
Another one of the Pilot’s go-to shirts.
This track jacket is the perfect thing to throw on after a workout or for running errands – it’s very slimming & flattering. I’ve been wearing this jacket to train clients (it’s cold in the gym!) and LOVE it.
These are the bowls I use to every giant salad I eat, or any bowl type meal. They’re perfect for chili and cornbread, pasta, veggies and chicken, buddha bowls, shrimp stir fry, anything.
This dainty chain necklace is perfect accessory. I find myself wearing a very similar one with most outfits these days + small gold hoop earrings.
Hands down my favorite leggings at a great price point. I have them in multiple colors and wear them workouts — and life!
So tell me friends: any fave products from August??
Have you gotten into the Amazon fashion trend yet? I’ve only ordered a couple of clothes from Amazon and have had mixed qualities.
Have a great day and I’ll see ya soon!
xo
Gina
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The province plans to being offering third vaccine doses to residents living in congregate care facilities as well as immunocompromised Albertans who may be at a higher risk of severe illness or death from COVID-19.
More than 350 emergency physicians across Ontario have signed an open letter demanding the province give more substantial pay increases to critical-care nurses, who've worked on the front-lines of the COVID-19 pandemic for over a year and a half.
Alberta Health Services is transferring six patients out of Queen Elizabeth II Hospital in Grande Prairie, Alta., to neighbouring health-care centres, to make room for an increase of COVID-19 patients requiring acute care and intensive care unit spaces at the facility.
Have you been wanting to get a glimpse of Fit Team and what it’s like? Now is the chance! Get a workout and video tutorial delivered to your inbox for the next 4 weeks. Read below for the details!
Hi friends! Happy Monday! How was the weekend? Ours was a good one. We went to my dad’s house to celebrate his bday, Liv had a friend over for s’mores and swimming, and I did some virtual and in-person training sessions, in addition to teaching dance cardio. It was an action-packed weekend and now we’re back in to the school thing.
So if you’ve been feeling kind of blah on the fitness front and want to shake up your workout routine and get inspired, join us as a beta tester for Fit Team!
My signature group coaching program, #FitTeam launches in October, and over the next several weeks I’m going to be sending out FREE workouts for you to try out, and then offer feedback if you’d like. There’s zero obligation, but I’d love to get your feedback as you try each one: what you liked, what you didn’t love, how you felt, etc.
Here’s how #FitTeam beta testing works:
Each Monday (starting this Monday, September 6th), I’ll be sending out a workout for you to try
All workouts are 20-30 minutes in duration, and can be done with dumbbells
I’ll be asking you a few quick questions (literally it will take you 1 minute) and you can give me your feedback after you try the workout. When you submit your feedback, I’ll enter ya to win a free nutrition guide as a thank you! (I’ll give away 1-5, deepening on how many friends are enrolled)
Beta testers will also have the opportunity to enroll for our next round of Fit Team for a sweet discount.
It’s free of course, since it’s going to be a huge favor to me to get your amazing feedback, and it will help me deliver an even better product in October. When you receive your workouts, you can also send them to friends and family members who may need a bit of workout motivation or some new ideas.
If you’ve been curious to see what the Fit Team workouts are like, this is the perfect time to try it out!
You can read more and sign up here.
Tell me friends: what’s one of your fitness wins from the past week? What’s something you’re working on right now?
xo
Gina
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Intensive care cases in Australia's New South Wales will hit a peak in October as COVID-19 infections accumulate, said the premier of the country's most-populous state, which reported record daily new infections on Monday.
At least one Alberta feed store has taken the livestock dewormer off its shelves because misinformation suggests it can be used to treat COVID-19 in humans is leading to a surge in demand.
The delta variant has changed the rules of the game — raising the immunity threshold we need to hit, increasing risk in our day-to-day lives and requiring even fully vaccinated Canadians to keep their guard up.
Ontario will announce a form of proof-of-vaccine certification — commonly known as a "vaccine passport" — for the province, sources tell CBC News. The plan is expected to be revealed early next week.
Health Canada and the Public Health Agency of Canada said Friday that Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine is now approved for use in adolescents.
Wanted to start off this email saying that my heart is heavy and I’m praying for the lives that were lost in Afghanistan yesterday and their families. I can’t stop thinking about our military members, allies, and Afghan citizens who are affected and in danger. God bless our troops and thank you to everyone who has served and is currently serving.
Hi friends! Happy Friday! I hope you’re enjoying the week so far. Thank you so much for all of the awesome feedback on the pool. I’m so glad we still have a couple of months ahead of warm weather and more time for wine by the pool while the kiddos play.
Behind the scenes, I’ve been working on Fit Team plans (they go out tomorrow!) and the very beginning of nutrition coaching with friends. It’s so fun add a nutritional layer of coaching to my business and see how it’s working for everyone! Email me if you have any questions or want to get started: gina@fitnessista.com.
What do you have going on this weekend? We’re hanging out here, getting ready for a trip to Sedona next week (CAN’T WAIT), and I have a few training clients at the gym. I’m also subbing a dance cardio class, which should be a lot of fun. I’d love to hear what you have going on!
It’s time for the weekly Friday Faves party. Here’s where I share some of my favorite finds from the week and around the web. I always love to hear about your faves, too, so please shout out something you’re loving in the comments below.
Random + life:
Maisey got to meet her cousin Nova this week! We’ve been waiting for Maisey to finish getting all of her boosters before taking her into the world, and she got her final ones last week. We’ve been going on walks (she loves them!), pickups at the dance studio, and finally starting to meet other dogs. They had the best time together running around in my mom’s backyard.
Fitness, health, + good eats:
Is it too early for pumpkin? (Don’t answer that lol.) I think I’m going to make some of this pumpkin dump cake this weekend.
My fave Sakara breakfast came this week! This is the goji rose donut and it’s a dream.come.true.
(Use my code XOGINAH for 20% off the Sakara site)
I’m back to training a small group of in-person clients and it feels great to be back into it. I love online training, but there’s something really magical about working with someone in person. My clients all have an incredible range of goals and I feel really fortunate and excited to work with them.
(Fitness professional attire = throw on a jacket)
Equilibria has GUMMIES now! They launched recently and are so.good. You can either chew them more slowly for them to act more like a daily drop (quicker response), or chew quickly and swallow for it to have more of the sustained effects of a soft gel. They have 5mg CBD and have a beautiful, floral taste. They’re vegan, gluten-free, organic, and non-GMO.
Get yours here and use the code FITNESSISTA for 15% off!
This is one of my favorite barre workouts! (PS if you have any requests for videos, please lmk! I’m filming next week.)
Read, watch, listen:
I didn’t get to see this one on Broadway but can’t wait for the movie version.
Chapter book suggestions for kids.
Fashion + beauty:
Ordered a Trunk Club for next week and am pumped to try on some new pieces. Worth mentioning here that I canceled my Nuuly account. For how much I was spending plus the fact that some clothes didn’t look as good in person (or were stinky! yikes), I figured I could spend the same amount continuing Trunk Club and actually keeping the things I like. This dress is on the way and I already know it’s a keeper. My last Trunk Club review is here.
Tarte sale is happening right now (friends and family 35% and free shipping)! Tarte is one of my go-to beauty brands that uses safe ingredients. I love their eyeliner, mascara, palettes, and highlighter.
Happy Friday, friends!
xo
Gina
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A small-but-growing body of research suggests the highly-contagious delta variant raises your risk of serious illness, but it’s tough to know for sure if it's the root cause of more severe COVID-19, both researchers and outside experts say.
Of the many effects of wheat consumption on the human body, it’s the brain effects that stand out, effects that include:
Once you understand how and why the various components of common wheat products can be blamed for many modern health problems, you have the key to reclaiming many aspects of health and weight control.
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The U.S. is projected to see nearly 100,000 more COVID-19 deaths between now and Dec. 1, according to the nation's most closely watched forecasting model. But health experts say that toll could be cut in half if nearly everyone wore a mask in public spaces.
By following an international standard, experts say the app does not need to send data to an external server.
Chartwell Retirement Residences, Extendicare, Responsive Group Inc., Revera Inc. and Sienna Senior Living issued a joint statement on Thursday indicating they will require all staff to be vaccinated against COVID-19 by Oct. 12.
Cases among fully vaccinated individuals — dubbed breakthrough infections if they occur at least two weeks following a second dose — are rare and typically milder, experts say, even against the more transmissible delta variant.
As case counts rise across the country, health experts warn that the COVID-19 fourth wave is very much here. But who will bear the brunt of it?
Saskatchewan's chief medical health officer says the number of COVID-19 patients in hospitals right now is concerning, but he does not think restrictions are needed at this time.
Some Nova Scotians who received one or more dose of COVID-19 vaccine outside the province are concerned that their official health record doesn't reflect their true immunization status as the Health Department says it can't provide COVID-19 immunization records to those vaccinated elsewhere.
One of the often repeated wisdoms regarding changes in energy expenditure as we age, is that we lose about 10-15 Cal per year. According to this formula, someone going from age 20 to age 50 would lose about 300-450 Cal in energy requirements.
But how accurate is this figure and does it really hold true?
This is the topic of perhaps the most comprehensive analysis of human energy expenditure over the lifespan ever to be conducted, by Herman Pontzer and colleagues, published in SCIENCE.
The researchers investigated the effects of age, body composition, and sex on total expenditure using a large (n= 6421 subjects; 64% female), diverse (n = 29 countries) database of doubly labeled water measurements for subjects aged 8 days to 95 years. In addition they looked at published measures of basal expenditure in neonates and doubly labeled water–measured total expenditure in pregnant and postpartum women.
After adjusting for body size to isolate potential effects of age, sex, and other factors, they found four distinct phases of human energy expenditure.
The first phase applied to neonates, up to 1 year of age. While during their first month neonates had a size-adjusted energy expenditures similar to that of adults, this increased rapidly in the first year so that between 9 and 15 months of age, adjusted total and basal expenditures were nearly ~50% elevated compared with that of adults.
The second phase applied to juveniles, 1 to 20 years of age. While total and basal expenditure continued to increase with age throughout childhood and adolescence along with fat-free mass, size-adjusted expenditures steadily declined at a rate of about 3% per year till about age 20, after which it plateaued at adult levels. In contrast to what one might expect, there was no indication of a pubertal increases in adjusted total or basal expenditure. Although men tended to have a higher energy expenditure, the rate of decline was the same for men and women.
Over the third phase, from 20 to 60 years of age, total and basal expenditure and fat-free mass remained stable from ages 20 to 60 years in both sexes. During pregnancy, adjusted total and basal expenditures remained stable with the elevation in unadjusted expenditures matching those expected from the gain in mothers’ fat-free mass and fat mass.
Finally, during the fourth phase, starting at about age 60, total and basal expenditure declined at a rate that exceeded the loss attributable to the steady reduction in fat-free mass and fat mass. Thus, adjusted total expenditure declined by –0.7 per year, and adjusted basal expenditure fell at a similar rate. For subjects 90+ years of age, adjusted total expenditure was ~26% below that of middle-aged adults.
In additional analyses, the researchers also found that both physical activity and tissue-specific metabolism contribute to total expenditure and its components across the life span. Elevated tissue-specific metabolism in early life may be related to growth or development, whereas reduced expenditures in later life may reflect a decline in organ-level metabolism.
These observations have several important implications. Firstly, these data contradict the notion that energy requirements change in a continuous fashion over time; rather, each of these phases are distinct, with energy expenditure remaining rather stable over long periods of adult life, with significant changes occurring in childhood and old age.
Secondly, the researchers note that there are considerable interindividual variations in expenditure even when controlling for fat-free mass, fat mass, sex, and age – meaning that some individuals require fewer calories that others.
Clearly, understanding the complex biology that underlies these metabolic changes over the life course as well as the variation among individuals will likely help reveal the roles of metabolic variation in health and disease.
@DrSharma
Berlin, D
The director of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention is raising the vaccination target he believes is needed to provide widespread protection against COVID-19 on the continent, citing the more infectious delta variant now present in 32 countries.
The B.C. government says it's seeing a massive increase in interest in the COVID-19 vaccine since announcing a new program to require proof of vaccination for a wide range of social and recreational activities.
The Saskatchewan government had not dedicated a news conference to COVID-19 since July 7.
The Yukon government is ending its COVID-19 state of emergency that went into effect in March 2020. "We have learned so much about how to manage COVID since then," Premier Sandy Silver said in a media briefing Wednesday.
Half of new cases in Montreal are linked to the delta variant, which is pushing the city into a fourth wave even before school has started.
University students may be eagerly preparing their return to the classroom after a sometimes painful and frustrating year-and-a-half of online learning, but the transition may not be without its complications.
Albertans planning to visit B.C. in the coming months will likely have to provide proof of vaccination to attend certain venues and events in the province. Here is what Albertans need to know.
Ontario recorded 660 new cases of COVID-19 Wednesday, while the head of the Ontario Hospital Association is reporting that the vast majority of people in hospital right now are not fully vaccinated with two doses.
