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.

“I THOUGHT MY SEX LIFE WAS OVER.” • Lessons from an unexpected diagnosis

Best Health

THE IRRESTIBLE WORLD OF SPICY BOOKTOK

FIND YOUR HAPPILY EVER AFTER WITH THESE POPULAR-ON-#BOOKTOK TITLES

SOCIAL SCIENTIST JENNIE HAW ON HOW TO GET MORE CANADIANS TO DONATE BLOOD AND WHY A DIVERSE DONOR SUPPLY MATTERS.

PESTO

PEA AND BASIL PESTO

PICKLEBALL

THE HEALTH BENEFITS OF PICKLEBALL

CAN A VIBRATOR DESENSITIZE ME?

CAN BATH BOMBS GIVE ME A UTI?

A DAISY DOPPELGANGER CAN HELP YOU HEAL

TAPPING INTO PRP

A NEW(ISH) WAY TO COVER BALD SPOTS

WHAT ELSE CAUSES HAIR TO FALL OUT?

MAGNESIUM FOR SLEEP

GARDENING MAY REDUCE CANCER RISK

Inside the lab where researchers study how to age in place

In Real Self-Care, psychiatrist Pooja Lakshmin skewers wellness products and practices marketed to women as remedies, and offers a roadmap for more authentic and sustainable ways to care for ourselves. In this excerpt, she explains how it’s all a matter of framework.

FAUX SELF-CARE VERSUS REAL SELF-CARE • When you first start out, it can be a little tricky to differentiate between faux self-care and real self-care. Lakshmin’s chart can help you spot the difference.

A SMALL-TOWN MAYOR TURNED FAMILY DOCTOR ON SECOND CAREERS

THE FAMILY DOCTOR DEFICIT

Toss those takeout menus: Chef and YouTuber Palin Chongchitnant’s second cookbook, Sabai, is full of cooking tips and easy-to-follow recipes for weeknight Thai dinners.

Goods • All The Facts About Snacks

MUST-READS!

THE HEAD AND THE HEART • Getting help quickly when a stroke occurs can mean the difference between recovery and paralysis. Three stroke survivors share their symptoms and those critical early-warning signs.

A Field Guide to Your Vaginal Microbiome • And to the many interrelated microorganisms inside that can affect your overall health. Come on in, the water is…self-cleaning and has a low pH.

Back to Basics

WEIGHT LESS • MY DOCTOR PRESCRIBED OZEMPIC INJECTIONS TO HELP ME LOSE 50 POUNDS AND ADDRESS MY HYPERTENSION—NOT SO I COULD CONFORM TO SOME CELEBRITY IDEAL. BUT THIS ANTI - OBESITY DRUG DIDN’T SUDDENLY LET ME SHED THE GUILT AND NEGATIVE SELF-TALK THAT’S IMPACTED MY BODY IMAGE FOR YEARS.

MORE THAN A MAKEOVER • The common threads in Caroline MacGillivray’s approach to health and happiness? Connection, human touch and helping others feel beautiful and comfortable in their bodies.

Ronke Edoho • The founder of Jollof Code on connecting to her culture through gardening.