CAMTA karma class

Please join us to help raise money for CAMTA, an Edmonton based organization that will be travelling to Quito, Ecuador in February with a group of volunteer medical professionals to perform orthopaedic surgeries on people who need and cannot afford them.

Saturday, Nov 29 at 1:00 pm

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Service men, women and their families practice for FREE from Nov 7 to 16

black friday SALE

5 classes for $55

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Are You Addicted to Sugar

by Lindsay Fontaine

Do you struggle to walk past a sugary treat without taking 'just one’?

Do you have routines around sugar consumption – for example, always having pudding, or needing a piece of chocolate to relax in front of the television?

Are there times when you feel as if you cannot go on without a sugar hit?

If you are forced to go without sugar for 24 hours, do you develop headaches and mood swings?

If you answered 'yes’ to one of the questions above, you are addicted to sugar.

Sugar activates a reward response in our brain, so we want more and more and more. Sugar is incredibly addictive, it has even been shown that the human brain reacts to sugar the same as it does to cocaine. And when we find sugar everywhere we turn it can be difficult to avoid the trap.