Best Health

Best Health magazine is dedicated to helping you “Look Great, Get Healthy, Eat Well and Embrace Life.” A new magazine from Reader’s Digest, it brings an inspiring voice to today’s contemporary Canadian woman. It’s filled with the latest health news, fitness tips, relationship and weight loss advice. Best Health stands apart with inspiring and approachable healthy lifestyle information on all aspects of your life. It’s like a day at the spa, not a trip to the clinic. You’ll appreciate its cutting-edge, no-nonsense information, delivered in the warm, upbeat tone of a well-informed friend.

OUR FAVE OUTTAKE

In the years I’ve spent making magazines, this is the first cover shoot that’s involved a multi-coloured inflatable pool filled with dozens of blue balloons.

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MEET THE NEW ROCK STAR OF THE AT-HOME MANI

DON’T MISS

EMBRACE FRIZZ AND SAVE YOUR CURLS

WRITER HANNAH SUNG AND TIKTOK STAR JOANNE MOLINARO ON VEGANIZING KOREAN FOOD AND GOING VIRAL

Eat More MUSHROOMS

MUSHROOM TOAST

THE NEW PELOTON BIKE

APPLE FITNESS+

STRETCH IT OUT

HOW CAN I PUMP THE BRAKES ON MY ONLINE SHOPPING?

SHAMPOO BARS

Can cannabis kick-start your sex drive?

WHICH VIBES ARE FOR ME?

What is lube, even?

How do you keep things spicy through midlife? • Sex educator Karen B.K. Chan weighs in

Dietitian Abby Langer argues that you can reject harmful diet culture and still promote healthy, sustainable weight loss. We got her on the phone to ask: how, exactly?

HOW TO SQUASH NEGATIVE SELF-TALK

“This pandemic has changed the way we die. I’ve seen it first-hand.”

The Covid-19 pandemic has shone a light on the invisible work of caregiving. It’s also brought a whole set of new challenges • IN PARTNERSHIP WITH PETRO-CANADA CAREMAKERS FOUNDATION

CAREGIVERS NEED SUPPORT, TOO

Toronto restaurateur Nuit Regular’s first cookbook, Kiin: Recipes and Stories from Northern Thailand, teaches newbies how to replicate her insanely flavourful food at home. Here are three delicious places to start

PLAY WITH ALL THE MAKE UP • Four Ways to Kick the Winter Blues

BAKE A BUNCH OF TREATS

MAKE MOVIE NIGHT COZY

KEEP MOVING AT HOME (YES, STILL)

PERI-WHAT-NOW? YOUR COMPLETE GUIDE TO A MAJOR LIFE STAGE THAT NO ONE TOLD YOU ABOUT

NINE THINGS YOU DIDN’T KNOW (AND MIGHT FORGET) ABOUT PERIMENOPAUSE

IT WAS ALL THE TALK ON THE LANAI • An incomplete history of pop culture tackling “the change,” and the long, winding road to it, lovingly known as “the change before the change.”

What to reach for when you feel the flush

BARONESSES GET PERIMENOPAUSE TOO • Three questions with Baroness Von Sketch’s Aurora Browne:

HERE’S THE DEAL WITH HORMONE THERAPY

THESE LOW-KEY CHANGES CAN ALSO HELP • Dr. Renee Morissette, a certified menopause practitioner at the Women’s Mid-Life Health Program of Saskatchewan, explains.

LET’S GO BACK TO THE PEE THING FOR A SECOND

Leak-free undies for your perimenopause survival kit

YOU CAN STILL WORK OUT. JUST BE PEE-PARED • Pelvic-floor physiotherapist Michele Fraser is very clear that there is no easy “do this, don’t do that” solution when it comes to working out. It’s not the exercise necessarily, but how you’re doing it and whether your core and intraabdominal muscles (which are intimately connected to your pelvic floor) are being used properly. That said…

“WE WANT TO BE VIEWED AS STRONG, CAPABLE WOMEN. WE DON’T KNOW HOW TO BE VULNERABLE.” HOW TREY ANTHONY FOUND HER WAY TO THE GOOD PLACE • In this excerpt from her new book, Black Girl in Love (with Herself), Canadian writer, playwright, life coach and television producer Trey Anthony reflects on being a suddenly single mom in the...