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June 11, 2019
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Posture impacts how you perceive your food

Summertime is often filled with outdoor parties and food trucks, meaning you're spending more time standing up and eating. But if you want to actually enjoy your meal, researchers say you're better off finding a seat.


4 quick mindfulness tips for beginners

Introducing a meditation or a mindfulness practice can be challenging for some. It can be hard to focus inward when our daily struggles and stressors run rampant in our minds.


Tart cherry shown to decrease joint pain, sore muscles in some breast cancer patients

Tart cherry reduces the musculoskeletal effects of aromatase inhibitors in patients with non-metastatic breast cancer.
 
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RMTA 2019 Conference and AGM

Date: September 13-19, 2019
Location: Edmonton
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Date: October 7, 2019
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