Category Archives: Health

Year-end thoughts

By Julie Laurin | Published: December 31, 2011

I thought I’d write a little year-end post to reflect on the past year and to share my plans for 2012. For those of you who were expecting me to publish my regular “Books of [the year]” series, it won’t be happening this year. I’ve decided to move my hosting away from GoDaddy (in order [...]

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Tonight, I ate bugs.

By Julie Laurin | Published: December 2, 2011

I learned a few years ago that insects are actually a great form of protein. I saw it as part of a documentary and I wish I could remember the name of it… Anyway, eating insects is a widely accepted thing in other parts of the world, whether they serve it as a dessert with [...]

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Life on a high-protein diet

By Julie Laurin | Published: October 11, 2011

As most of you know, I’ve decided to start bodybuilding this fall. I hired Duncan Milloy to create a nutritional plan for me and to create a training program. Since Duncan is currently training for the World Championships and since his gym is in Kanata, I decided to get Izzy to train me based on [...]