More care for our caregivers. This topic, along with many others, was brought to the table during a day-long meet and greet at The Scarborough Hospital with Judith Shamian, President of the Canadian Nurses Association (CNA). Shamian is travelling across the country to engage healthcare providers, government decision-makers and the media in dialogue about the future of Canada's healthcare system.
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Ji Han intended to purchase two raffle tickets for the Win a Car Charity Raffle hosted by The Scarborough Hospital Foundation, but on a whim, she bought three more. Of her five tickets, it was the fifth that won her a brand new 2011 Toyota Matrix.
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Many of us have experimented with crash diets, trendy exercise routines, calorie counting and a love-hate relationship with the bathroom scale because we may be dissatisfied with our bodies. But when does common concern become an obsession, and ultimately lead to an eating disorder?
"An eating disorder begins to develop when an individual demonstrates goal-directed behaviour to lose weight, even when they are already clinically underweight," says Joanna Blanchard, Mental Health Therapist at The Scarborough Hospital. "Pressure can come from media images that have likely been manipulated, and individuals aim for the physically impossible."
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