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“So, how was your vacation?” ─ Tiring. I’m exhausted. We hear this so often nowadays, it almost sounds normal. Be it after a week on a cruiseship in the Carribean or after a couple of weeks racing accross Europe, lots of vacationers come back in a worst shape they were when they left. Maybe we [...]

This morning, I read that Nintendo’s Wii Fit would be available in Quebec on May 19th. “Wii what? Don’t tell me they’ll be offering a game that will allow you to think your being active while watching TV?”

“Are you really asking me to jump into this snow bank? Hey! I’m wearing a bathing suit!!!” Guess what? The therapist wasn’t joking at all. But neither was I.

OK. It says it all. And this is what this blog is all about. Do you have questions about Spa Eastman? Are there specific subjects you would like to discuss? Have you been at Spa Eastman recently and would like to share your experience? I will be more than happy to answer your questions and read about your [...]

Now that I know that chocolate contains cancer-fighting molecules, I feel no guilt in celebrating Valentine’s Day! Seriously, according to Drs. Richard Beliveau and Denis Gingras,*  “dark chocolate (70% cocoa) provides the body with polyphenols that fight cancer.”

Needless to say that physical activity is good for our health. We all know that by now. But a recent study, published in the Archives of Internal Medicine by researchers at King’s College London, has shown that “people who exercise more in their free time appear to be biologically younger than their more sedentary counterparts”.

I’m so pleased to be writing you today. If you have taken the time to read the little introduction to your right below the subjects, you’ve already figured out that Spa Eastman and I go a long way back. While perusing my old résumé, which I decided to take out for this occasion, I remembered that my [...]