M'agine Nutrition

24/01/2025

Apparently, by now well over 80% of New Year's Resolutions have been abandoned. There are various reasons for this, but it happens every year.
If you have thrown up your hands in frustration already, but the goal you had for your health is still something you'd like to achieve, you may just need a different approach. Something less drastic. Something more sustainable. Something more reasonable. Something more enjoyable.
Do not despair! There are so many ways nutrition can help build your health and support your goals. Get in touch and let's discuss what you want in 2025 and how you can get there!

01/01/2025

Well, it’s January 1st. The day you told yourself you’d start.

Start eating better.
Start exercising.
Start getting more sleep.

Changing lifelong habits, trying something new, leaving coping mechanisms behind, can be scary and difficult. But it can also be exciting, fun, interesting and very rewarding.

You’ll have ups and downs. Things that work for your friends may not work for you. You’ll have days when you want to give up and others when you are all in.

I suggest you get personalized, knowledgeable help. Trying to white knuckle through on your own is lonely and can be frustrating when you don’t see the results you expected.

I’d love to help you reach your health and wellness goals for 2025. Let’s start now!

Happy New Year! 🎊

31/10/2024

Head to my website for some yummy spaghetti squash recipes!

https://www.maginewellness.com/post/spaghetti-squash

22/10/2024

Head to my blog to get your pumpkin recipes and read a bit about how nutritious these beauties are!

https://www.maginewellness.com/post/pumpkins

18/10/2024

New blog post!

I've come to dislike this overused (in my humble opinion) word - hack. It has many meanings, most of them negative, such as when someone hacks your social media account. So many people are looking for a health/fitness "hack", defined as "a clever solution to a tricky problem". But might I remind you...

04/07/2024

Edit: Done! ✅ Both the upgrade AND the Certificate! Ready to put this knowledge to good use!

Upgrading my Pediatric Nutrition course so that I can take the Advanced Pediatric Certificate through CSNN.......never stop learning!

16/04/2024

Check out my new blog post! - my personal thyroid story.
https://www.maginewellness.com/post/you-can-change-your-story

06/04/2024

Tell Health Canada What You Think Of Their Plans To Crush The Natural Health Product Industry With Fees

👉 bit.ly/CostFeedback

On March 27th, NHPPA's Shawn Buckley and Veronica Jean attended Health Canada's engagement session on Revisions to the Proposed Fees for Natural Health Products.
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The purpose of this meeting was to review Health Canada's proposed revisions to the fees for regulating natural health products (NHPs) and to continue engaging stakeholders in important conversations about the effects of Cost Recovery on the natural health product industry in Canada.

In short, Health Canada announced the following changes to their Cost Recovery plans:

➡️ Reducing fees by 50% by limiting planned additions to their enforcement programs
➡️ Lowering fee ratios for the first four years
➡️ Phasing in fees over seven years starting December 2025

Let us be clear: THIS IS NOT A WIN!

Although Health Canada has framed these proposed fee reductions as their response to industry needs, what we also heard during last week's meeting included:

➡️ Despite the proposed fee reduction of 50%, multiple natural health product manufacturers in attendance at the session stated they would need to pull 40-90% of their products from the Canadian market.
➡️ Multiple manufacturers stated they would be forced to cease operations in Canada entirely.
➡️ Despite first announcing the initiative SEVEN years ago, Health Canada still has yet to provide a draft of the full Self-Care Framework, which will include additional layers of fees, surely pushing even more natural health product businesses out of Canada.

The deadline to voice your concerns about the proposed new fee guidelines to Health Canada is April 25th. Your voice matters, participate by submitting your feedback.

We know you understand that these Cost Recovery fees are just one part of a much bigger picture of the over-regulation of natural health products under the Self-Care Framework already being implemented. Health Canada was clear last week—they are moving forward with the Self-Care Framework, despite not yet providing the industry or Canadians with a full draft of their plans.

If you need inspiration to provide your feedback, some of NHPPA's biggest concerns around the proposed new fee guidelines, include:

➡️ The fees being imposed will drive more small and many medium Natural Health Product (“NHP”) businesses and practitioners out of business.
➡️ We will lose natural health products, natural health companies, and eventually natural health practitioners.
➡️ Natural health product prices will increase.
➡️ Health Canada openly admits that they have not done a balanced risk/benefit or cost analysis on the effects of imposing these fees.
➡️ Fewer Canadians access NHPs and more begin relying on Government-funded healthcare options instead

It's clear that the stakes are high for the natural health product industry in Canada. Please click the link below to provide your feedback to Health Canada before April 25th. Let's continue to stand together to advocate for policies that support rather than hinder our access to natural health products.

👉 bit.ly/CostFeedback

04/04/2024

New blog post!

I recently had my vitamin D level tested. I'll get to that story later, but first I'll hit the highlights of the function, types, sources, etc. of this essential micronutrient.Function/Purpose - why do we need it?Vitamin D is important for the normal calcification of our bones and regulates our body...