Health And Wellness Blog

Loreen Wales, our CEO, Registered Dietitian and founder of My Viva Inc. has been featured in articles, podcasts, webinars and more throughout the past few years. Read more on the story, growth and journey of our digital wellness program-My Viva Plan: Recent Features: Founder Spotlight on CWN Silicon Valley Edmonton Global: News   Television & Radio: Global TV: YOU-AR-OK  (2021) CKRM: Dealing with Blue Monday (2021)  CTV Edmonton: “Fighting Off Blue Monday with Tips from a Dietitian” (2020)   Webinars  Digital Health Webinar   Podcasts  Enjoy The Life You’re Living   MindSea: Moving Digital Health Podcast 2022   Creative Block Podcast Apple: https://podcasts.

“I’ve always used a patient-centric approach to my care. After 10 years of being in the public sector, doing research and program development—learning from the patients living with these multiple chronic health conditions and the challenges they face—I  wanted to get to the other side of the illness and focus on prevention. ” Loreen Wales, Founder & CEO   Read more of her interview with the Canadian Women's Network here: Founder Spotlight: Loreen Wales

When people talk about obesity, they are often focused on what people eat and how much they move. However, obesity is an incredibly complex chronic health condition! One piece that often gets missed in obesity-talk is the very important issue of weight bias (sometimes called weight stigma) and discrimination.

Ever had a ‘difficult’ patient? One step further, have you ever had a patient really tell you off? For this week’s guest, Loreen Wales, it was this kind of encounter that was the catalyst for introducing a new way to understand the patient journey.

My Viva Inc CEO, Loreen Wales, was recently on the Creative Block podcast talking about creating a better future for Canadians through virtual health. Listen to the podcast below! Visit the Media Lab YYC website for more podcast episodes here

Wake Up With Wayne on EZ Rock:   Global News Morning Weekend: Fighting off “Blue Monday”   Both interviews talk about self-care - Learn more on what self-care means.

As a registered dietitian at Revive Wellness, many of my clients come to see in part, or in full, for the accountability I can provide them. Working on health and changing behaviour is hard work and having another person to report back to can be a very helpful strategy to keep the momentum going.   However, this is not the only way to keep yourself accountable.

How a Registered Dietitian can use My Viva Plan to help clients with Prediabetes and Prevention of Diabetes:   Diabetes Canada has released some shocking or maybe not surprising numbers in terms of the risk and health of our clients. 1 in 3 people are living with prediabetes and diabetes, a new diagnosis of diabetes is happening every three minutes and a projection of 14 million people will be living with diabetes or prediabetes by 2027 in Canada. This means that there is a very likely chance that your clients are either at risk or have a diagnosis of a health condition.

Today we hosted a virtual launch of our new virtual reality app YOU-AR-OK! During our beta testing phase we are excited to be able to offer our app for FREE to all Canadians. Read the press release: YOU-AR-OK Press Release - November 2nd 2020_ Learn more and get the beta testing version: www.

A new augmented reality solution will soon be available to Canadians. Hoffmann-La Roche Limited (Roche Canada) has awarded funding to My Viva Inc. , the University of Alberta’s Rehabilitation Robotics Laboratory (Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine) and ELIXR Simulations to jointly develop the YOU-AR-OK avatar, a virtual health application to support users with their health and wellbeing during and beyond the COVID-19 crisis.