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Ontario-based all-you-can-eat Japanese BBQ restaurant to open first BC location
An Ontario-based all-you-can-eat Japanese BBQ restaurant is set to open up in Metro Vancouver, and you’ll definitely want to stop by on an empty stomach. Gyubee Japanese Grill currently operates a number of locations in Ontario and one in Montreal, but this spot will be its first in BC. “Gyubee is the only all-you-can-eat Japanese barbecue restaurant that provides quality and fresh ingredients, all with our goal to remind each other to unwind and savour the flavours and aromas of good food with our friends and family,” reads the website. In addition to BBQ, customers can find other items like takoyaki, sushi, Nagoya-style chicken wings, Korean lettuce wraps, and crème brûlée. Submitted/Daily Hive The restaurant has no opening date currently, but signs on the windows indicate it is currently hiring. Will you be checking out this new all-you-can-eat Japanese BBQ spot? Let us know in the comments. Gyubee Japanese Grill Address: 50-8100 Ackroyd Road, Richmond Instagram Still hungry? Discover Dished Vancouver on TikTok
Kids thrive at every size so here is what you should know about their health, experts say
Get inspired by a weekly roundup on living well, made simple. Sign up for CNN’s Life, But Better newsletter for information and tools designed to improve your well-being . CNN — Do you ever find yourself comparing the size of your child with those of their classmates and worrying about their health? Just as you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, you can’t judge a person’s health solely by the way their body looks, said Jill Castle, a pediatric dietitian in Massachusetts. In her new book, “Kids Thrive at Every Size,” Castle aims to offer a new model for assessing and addressing kids’ health. Kids with bodies either larger or smaller than average are at higher risk for psychological harm related to their size than their average-size counterparts, Castle said. And some of the tactics that adults use to influence their child’s size can have consequences on their health and relationship with food for the rest of their lives, said Jennifer Rollin, founder of The Eating Disorder Center in Rockville, Maryland. With a new school year ahead, kids with larger or smaller bodies face the potential for difficulties at school, but the adults who care for them have an opportunity to reset the family’s approach to health and size, Castle said. If you want to reset your child’s healthy habits as you kick off the academic year, here’s what Castle wants you to know — and what you may need to rethink. The way children’s health has been assessed has often centered greatly on their size and shape, Castle said. “We’ve been operating under the fixed weight model or the fixed size model, which is a model that looks at a child that’s too small and says, ‘Hey, we need to fix that child’s body size and make it larger,’” she said. “Or we look at a child with a larger body and say, ‘Hey, that doesn’t fit our norm.’” There are a few problems with this approach. One is that weight and size rarely tell the full story, said pediatrician Dr. Nimali Fernando, founder of the Dr. Yum Project, a Virginia-based nonprofit helping communities overcome obstacles to eating well. “There are a lot of social determinants of health that we need to consider when we’re looking at a child’s overall health, and it’s very easy to get laser focused into the things that we can measure, instead of really taking time to understand what’s going on in a child’s life,” she said. Another issue is that the ways to address size directly often aren’t helpful. “Pressuring children to eat more or to eat less, restricting children from having seconds — we know those feeding practices don’t work very well in the long run, and can disturb that developing relationship with food,” Castle said. Instead, Castle developed a model called “whole child healthy,” which emphasizes a balance of physical health and emotional well-being. “(The factors) include things like sleep and movement and screen time and food, but it also includes family culture and self-love as a pillar,” she added. Strict health rules aren’t the way to have a hale and hearty child — instead, Castle said, “every child needs good, healthy lifestyle habits to grow up healthy and happy.” Family culture: The first pillar of health Castle emphasizes isn’t about a child’s diet or exercise. It’s about the family culture surrounding them. “A family culture is who your family is,” she said. “As a family, it’s what you believe in, your core values, your attitudes, what you spend your time doing. And for children who may grow up with a larger body or a smaller body, they need families with a strong, positive family culture.” She recommends really investigating the way in which your family talks about food, your own bodies, other people’s bodies and the other things that are important to you. Having family meetings, family mantras and activities that support those values can help reinforce the environment you want to create for your children, she said. Food: “The goal of the food pillar is really to embrace flexibility with food and to emphasize foods that are highly nutritious and … to allow foods also that might be minimally nutritious within the diet in ways that can be fully enjoyed and flexible,” Castle said. That flexibility doesn’t mean there are no boundaries and structure, however. Instead, Castle recommended focusing on things such as having mealtimes at around the same time every day, having predictable snacks, eating with mindfulness and sitting to share a meal as a family as often as possible during the week. “And really doing the job of parenting, which is buying the food, preparing the meals, getting it on the table, and then releasing yourself as a parent from any further job of trying to get your child to eat,” Castle said. Lastly, try to move toward understanding food as more or less nutritious and away from branding food “good” or “bad,” Castle said. “The clean club or rewarding with sweets — they might work in the moment, but they don’t do a good job of establishing the self-trust and an intuitive, good relationship with food as kids grow up,” Castle said. Sleep: Getting quality sleep is crucial for both your kid’s physical and emotional well-being, so practicing good sleep hygiene should be on your list of priorities, Castle said. That means building habits such
Could Coffee Help Protect Your Liver From Alcohol
Another noteworthy benefit has been added to the list of perks that coffee may have for your health. New research has found that drinking your daily java may help protect your liver from alcohol-related cirrhosis. While a little bit of alcohol may actually be healthy, we all know that overdoing it on the spirits is extremely dangerous…
Mediterranean diet found to improve childrens heart health, study finds
Sign up for CNN’s Eat, But Better: Mediterranean Style. Our eight-part guide shows you a delicious expert-backed eating lifestyle that will boost your health for life . CNN — The Mediterranean diet has been linked to many health benefits for adults. Now, a new study suggests it could be beneficial to children’s heart health as well. An analysis of nine earlier studies including 577 participants from the ages of 3 to 18 has found incorporating the Mediterranean diet for at least eight weeks had a significant association with lowering blood pressure and total cholesterol, according to the study published Friday in the journal JAMA Network Open. The research further supports that incorporating healthy dietary habits early in life can help prevent cardiovascular diseases and metabolic disorders, such as high blood pressure and diabetes, which often originate in childhood, researchers say. “Early dietary habits significantly influence long-term health outcomes,” said lead study author Dr. José Francisco López-Gil, a senior researcher with One Health Research Group at the University of the Americas in Quito, Ecuador, in an email. “The key takeaway for parents is the importance of promoting a diet rich in whole foods and healthy fats to optimize their children’s health and reduce the risk of developing chronic diseases.” Knowing the benefits the Mediterranean diet has for adults’ cardiometabolic health, the findings are not surprising but provide further emphasis on the importance of having a diet of unprocessed foods such as fruits, vegetables, lean meats and fish for all stages of life, said Dr. Stuart Berger, division head of pediatric cardiology at the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. Berger was not involved with the study. Here’s how parents and guardians could help their children benefit from the Mediterranean eating plan, according to experts. The Mediterranean diet is a way of eating that includes plant-based cooking with an emphasis on healthy fats. Fruits, vegetables, beans, seeds, nuts, whole grains, lean meats and fish are all contributors to the dietary plan. Not every child needs to adopt a Mediterranean diet, but it is important to increase “real foods” in children’s diets and decrease highly processed foods that have added sugars and sodium, said Dr. Natalie Muth, a spokesperson for the American Academy of Pediatrics, who was not involved with the research. “We know that calories from ultraprocessed foods make up about 70% of a typical teenager’s intake. Any change that can lower intake of things like chips, cookies, and sodas and increase intake of fruits and vegetables is a big win,” said Muth, a pediatrician and registered dietitian at the WELL Clinic at Children’s Primary Care Medical Group in San Diego, in an email. But it is always important to keep in mind a child’s preferences and to incorporate cultural traditions into any guidance around food choices, Muth added. For those looking to shift to the Mediterranean eating plan, following age-appropriate dietary plans and exercise recommended by a child’s pediatrician is also key, said Berger, who is a professor of pediatrics at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. Gathering together as a family over a meal as a way to connect also plays a major role in the Mediterranean diet, said Dr. Tamara Hannon, director of the clinical pediatric diabetes program at Riley Hospital for Children at Indiana University Health in Indianapolis. “Parents need to lead by example by eating using this pattern, offering structured meals and snacks (scheduled), and exercising daily,” she added in an email. Hannon, who is also a professor of pediatrics at Indiana University School of Medicine, was not involved with the research. Hannon also recommends parents and guardians limit their children’s eating between structured meals and snacks as well as eliminating sugary beverages and juices to improve blood glucose and weight management. The authors of the new report found a variation in results across the earlier studies analyzed, which can be attributed to the differing factors of diet and physical activity each study displayed. Despite the variations, the Mediterranean diet consistently improved blood pressure levels and lipid profiles, López-Gil said, which can lower the risk of cardiometabolic problems later in life such as heart attacks, strokes and diabetes. The researchers were surprised they didn’t find evidence of any effects on glucose and insulin levels, López-Gil said. The impact the Mediterranean diet has on these health factors could be less pronounced, or could require a longer time frame to have an effect, he added. The study looked at the results of kids adopting the dietary plan from eight to 40 weeks. “We’ll need to do more studies on kids in particular,” Berger said, “but reviewing these studies suggest the … beneficial effects of the so-called Mediterranean diet and everything associated with it.” Further research should include larger sample sizes and more diverse populations as well as longitudinal studies to assess the long-term effects of the Mediterranean diet on kids’ cardiometabolic health, López-Gil said. “The growing research shows the value (in the Mediterranean diet) to be the same for children and adolescents (as in adults),” Muth said. “One of the most impactful steps a parent can take to help improve kids’ nutrition is to commit to regular family meals and try to prepare foods at home, as often as possible. The more kids are exposed to fruits, vegetables, and fish, the more likely they will try them and like them eventually.”
Pop-Up Markets to Visit This Summer in Vancouver
CREATE! Arts Festival 2023; Photo credit: Wendy D Provided by Eastside Arts Society Vancouver is home to many makers who love to showcase their talent at small markets around the city. Especially on sunny summer days, pop-up markets are an amazing way to spend your time, browsing artisan goods, chatting with friendly vendors, and often…