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Wednesday, November 7, 2012

New website assists those with dementia and their families

Launching today, the Living with Dementia website was designed to provide persons newly diagnosed with dementia and those who care for them with the information and resources needed to live well with an illness causing dementia.

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

CIW report reveals Canadian wellbeing on the decline

TORONTO, Ont. (Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2012) – The recession hit Canadians harder than economic numbers such as GDP have indicated and the decline in our wellbeing continues despite subsequent economic recovery, says the Honourable Roy Romanow, advisory board co-chair for the Canadian Index of Wellbeing (CIW), housed in the Faculty of Applied Health Sciences at the University of Waterloo.

Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Study shows plain cigarette packages reduce appeal of smoking

By Matthew Theunissen, The New Zealand Herald

A new study has discredited the tobacco industry's assertion that there is no proof plain packaging on cigarette packs reduces the appeal of smoking.

Scientists from Canada, the United States and Brazil conducted a study of 640 young Brazilian women to determine if cigarettes had the same appeal when presented in plain packaging.

Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Recreation professor comments on consumer behaviour as running shoe prices climb

Footloose & fanciful: Finding your way through the thicket of $200 shoes

Ben Kaplan, National Post 

With the launch of Nike’s new $300 basketball sneakers, a shoe called the LeBron X Nike Plus, named for NBA basketball player LeBron James, a new threshold has been crossed in sportswear. While the average name-brand running shoe still sits somewhere around $150, it’s an opportune time to examine our relationship with how much we’re willing to spend on a shoe.

Monday, August 13, 2012

Nunavut study investigates influence of tobacco price on smoking behaviour

Increase the cost of cigarettes to snuff out smoking in Nunavut: study

"Price is the single most important influence on tobacco consumption levels, cessation and prevention"

JANE GEORGE

More than two of every three Nunavut Inuit smoke daily despite the increased risks to these smokers of developing tuberculosis, lung cancer and other illnesses, along with the high cost of a daily tobacco habit, which can range up to $6,000 a year for an individual smoker.