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.

FRESH NEW FITNESS TRACKERS FOR 2022 • Track your steps, your sleep and your cycle with one of these three wearables.

“Keep fit and have fun.” That’s been the tagline of BodyBreak, Hal Johnson and Joanne McLeod’s fitness and healthy living empire, for over 30 years.

Best Health

SHAKE OFF THE PANDEMIC DOLDRUMS BY CELEBRATING…EVERYTHING

PARTY FAVOURS TO KICK-START THE FESTIVITIES

CANADIAN JOURNALIST ANNA MARIA TREMONTI ON SURVIVING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND SHARING THE STORY THAT SHE KEPT HIDDEN FOR 40 YEARS

Eat More FAVA BEANS

MARINATED FAVA BEANS AND RICOTTA TOAST

In Let’s Get Physical, Danielle Friedman explores the intersections of 20th century feminism and women’s exercise culture. This excerpt traces the hidden (and kinda racy) history of barre class.

AT-HOME FOOD RECYCLING

THREE MOVES TO WAKE UP YOUR STIFF BUTT

GET STARTED

AS A NURSE, I THOUGHT I WAS A PRO AT CAREGIVING. THEN MY MOM GOT SICK.

HOW TO AVOID CAREGIVER BURNOUT

A Primer On LONG COVID

HOW CAN I REKINDLE MY SEX DRIVE?

4 Healthy Reasons to MASTURBATE

How to Keep Your Pelvic Floor Happy and Healthy

Burning questions

Tips for a smooth trip to the loo

VITALS • Before she ran acclaimed Toronto restaurants specializing in borderhopping comfort food, Suzanne Barr grew up watching her parents cook Jamaican staples. Her first book, My Ackee Tree, blends memories from her childhood kitchen with health-minded recipes.

Goods • 23 Ways to Sharpen Your Brain

BODY BREAKTHROUGH • A SMART WATCH HELPED SAVE HAL JOHNSON’S LIFE. CAN IT DO THE SAME

EASY DOES IT • These four dermatologists have incredible skin. That’s not shocking. What is surprising is that they reach for so few products.

DR. MONICA LI

DR. HEATHER WOOLERY-LLOYD

DR. MARLENE DYTOC

DR. DENISE WEXLER

NO WEIGH • The bathroom scale is more hurtful than helpful. Time to ditch it.

Roll With It • Toronto-based physical therapist Vinh Pham has spent over 15 years studying how good posture and proper alignment connect to long-term health. In his new book, Sit Up Straight, he details how to increase mobility and relieve muscle tightness, soreness and inflammation easily from home using just a foam roller.

Ethio Organics • Born and raised in Ethiopia, three longtime friends are bringing a much-loved taste of home to Canadian bakers