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Yoga and Life

zoriana — Wed, 01 May 2013 17:25:06 +0000

by Padma

A dear friend of mine has the Sanskrit word Mrityunjai tattooed across his left chest.
The word means “victorious over death.” This friend is a true yogi, someone who has faced death, and knows for himself that death does not exist. We met after he’d had a bone marrow transplant due to a second episode of cancer. Now, 10 years later, he’s in a third episode, once again being forced to go farther and look deeper into living than most of us ever have to do. It’s as if he’s destined to be God-realized in this lifetime, whether he chooses to or not!

This word Mrityunjai gets to the heart of the most esoteric and spiritual message of yoga: You are Ever-Present. Of course this does not mean that our bodies won’t die. Everything in this changing world must continue to change. Doing yoga poses, practicing breath work and eating a vegetarian diet makes you healthier. It can also possibly extend your lifespan, but it is in meditation and self-inquiry that the profoundest meaning of yoga is known.

In meditation you simply sit, with your eyes closed. At first you only see the changes in your mind, but after settling into stillness you start to witness the ever-present space of being in you. This unchanging space is always there when you meditate. Behind the colourful and varying imagination and memory of your fantastic mind, this formless space of awareness is always there, waiting for you to notice its subtle existence. This subtlest space is your eternal being. This pure presence is the base of your existence and what you were before you were born, who you are now, and who you will be once your body has lived its years.

The miracle of this space is that it can be known to you immediately. Right now, know that the purest sense you have of who you call ‘I’, is this pure space of being. Normally, you automatically associate this ‘I’ with your name, your body, your status and a thousand other qualifications. But if you meditate on the words “I am I”, then you will come closer to realizing that you are this subtlest space of pure being. In deep meditation, when your mind has become still, you’ll witness that the purity of your real being exists.

It’s incredible that we assume to fear death so much. Of course, we see bodies dying and passing away, but we really don’t have any direct proof that the existence of a person is extinguished. We see a body die, but is a person just their body? This begins the inquiry into who a person is, who you are. Meditators ask themselves, “Am I just this body?” Intuitively, some of us realize that we are more than this.

You might say there is also no proof that life doesn’t die, but there is proof. The direct experience of countless visionaries coming to know in their own awareness that life is one, eternal, immortal, ever-present, and pure existence. These true sages have spoken to people in all cultures, in all centuries. Their message is simple: “Know that you are pure and free forever. Do not have any fear due to an idea of death. You are immortal and blissful.”

This is the message for my dear friend, who will never die. And for all my dear friends who desire freedom.

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Padma is an enlightened educator and one of Canada’s most respected and popular teachers of meditation, yoga and self-realization. For more about Padma, as well as information about classes, workshops and Padma’s television series, Padma Yoga, visit padmayoga.ca.

Padma Yoga airs daily at 9:00am and 6:30pm EST on The Brand New ONE.

Come ONE, Come All: Catch a Free Preview of The Brand New ONE During April

henry — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 19:22:57 +0000

Spring is here and the time is ripe for renewal and re-invigoration. Taking up a new fitness routine, discovering new and healthy ways to cook and eat and enriching our minds by exploring untravelled cerebral and spiritual pathways. Refreshing and feeding body, mind, spirit and love. That’s what The Brand New ONE is all
about.

During April, we would love as many Canadian viewers as possible to acquaint themselves with everything The Brand New ONE has to offer. With that in mind, we’re presenting a free preview for Canadian viewers all month long!

Look for The Brand New ONE on the following cable providers/channels this month:

Bell 606
Rogers 265
Shaw 225/575
Direct Source 217

**BODY * MIND * SPIRIT * LOVE**

The Brand New ONE is a channel that brings the best of these personal aspects together to help you create the best YOU you want to be. From powering up your body with premiere yoga, pilates and specialty fitness programs, to cooking and nutritional programs that espouse the healthiest and most beneficial recipes and aspects of food, to a myriad of programs that bring you the opportunity to learn more about the world, spirituality and
pursuits of the mind, The Brand New ONE has a plethora of great programs to explore and enjoy.

Browse through our archive of current programs and watch online webisodes.

Check out our daily broadcast schedule and find out when you can see what you already love or new programs that pique your interest.

Visit our Subscribe page to download a current list of channels where The Brand New ONE can be found all across the country.

Like what you see and feel? Ask your cable provider how to add The Brand New ONE to your ongoing viewing package.

CARP to Host Liberal Leadership Forum Webcast and Broadcast

henry — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 21:52:57 +0000

As the last month of the Federal Liberal Party Leadership race heats up, our colleagues at CARP are preparing to ask candidates to tell us where they stand and what their plans are regarding issues that are of particular interest to older Canadians. Just what is the Liberal vision for Zoomers?

On Wednesday, March 20 at 1:30pm ET watch a live, 90 minute webcast of the CARP Liberal Leadership Forum, hosted/moderated by CARP VP of Advocacy, Susan Eng. Hear Federal Liberal Party Leadership contenders Martin Cauchon, Deborah Coyne, Martha Hall Findlay, Joyce Murray and Karen McCrimmon share how they will address matters of importance to Canadian Zoomers such as pensions, health care reform and taxation. The candidates will present their platforms in front of a live studio audience and respond to questions as well as The entire, 90 minute forum will stream live at carp.ca/watchnow.

The CARP Liberal Leadership Forum will also be broadcast on VisionTV on Monday, April 1 at 9pm ET/6pm PT.

CARP Forums provide CARP members with the opportunity to hear directly from those asking for their votes. In return, politicians have the chance to directly reach out to 300,000 actively voting CARP members across the country through such televised events on VisionTV and our various member communications channels.

CARP is a national, non-partisan, non-profit organization committed to advocating for a New Vision of Aging for Canada, social change that will bring financial security, equitable access to health care and freedom from discrimination. CARP seeks to ensure that the marketplace serves the needs and expectations of our generation and provides value-added benefits, products and services to our members. Through our network of chapters across Canada, CARP is dedicated to building a sense of community and shared values among our members in support of CARP’s mission.

Pour It On with ONE’s March Ultra-Fitness Marathon

henry — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 01:30:39 +0000

Here we are. We’re more than two months into a new year and how’s that “new you’ coming along? Have you settled into a good health and fitness schedule that is as much an important part of your life as your business and social life? It’s a major commitment that can be a tall order when you consider that an estimated fifty percent of those who start a regular fitness routine will stop following it after six months.

Certainly, it can be tough to keep a workout regimen going strong in the face of a demanding work schedule, family responsibilities and the need for plain ol’ rest. Ultimately though, good health provides the gateway to being able to lead our lives to the fullest. So shouldn’t that be at, or at least near, the top of our to do lists?

It’s time to beef up those best-of-intentions that many of us begin each year with. Before complacency creeps in and the call of a myriad of other distractions gets too loud, re-commit to that “new you” with the Brand New ONE’s March Ultra-Fitness Marathon. We’re taking our weekday morning fitness block and power packing it into the afternoons and evenings on weekends throughout March. However, our fitness line up isn’t filled with your garden variety cardio and strength training regimens. We take a more spiritual, soulful and multi-culturally infused path with our very popular yoga, pilates and eastern influenced dance fitness programs. From Namaste and Kabalah Yoga to Shimmy and Bollyfit, these workouts are as good for the soul as they are for the body.

Join in the fun and here’s to your good health! Click on the program titles for more.

MARCH ULTRA-FITNESS MARATHON SCHEDULE

Saturdays, March 9, 16, 23 and 30

2:00 and 9:00pm ET/11:00am and 6:00pm PT: Yoga For Life
3:00 and 10:00pm ET/12:00 and 7:00pm PT: Pilates From The Inside Out

Sundays, March 10, 17, 24 and 31

2:00pm ET: Kabalah Yoga
2:30 and 9:30pm ET/11:30am and 6:30pm PT: Namaste
3:00 and 10:00pm ET/Noon and 7:00pm PT: Shimmy
3:30 and 10:30pm ET/12:30 and 7:30pm PT: Bollyfit
9:00pm ET: Spirit of Yoga

Calling All ONE Viewers: Help VisionTV Stay On Basic Cable

henry — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 23:29:35 +0000

UPDATE – FEB. 28, 2013: VisionTV’s Protect Your Vision intervention campaign has now wrapped up. We would like to take this opportunity to extend our sincere and heartfelt thanks to ONE/VisionTV viewers and advocates for lending your support to our CRTC application for VisionTV to remain on basic cable and satellite. We are overwhelmed and deeply touched that thousands of you took the time to express what VisionTV means to you and why it’s imperative that we continue to be available and affordable as part of your basic cable/satellite service. VisionTV’s CRTC hearing on the matter is in late April. They look forward to bringing you more of the best in inspiring, informative, unique and diverse programming.

Viewers of The Brand New ONE are being asked to lend their voices to an ongoing campaign to keep our sister channel VisionTV available and easily accessible as part of your basic cable or satellite package.

Please visit the Protect Your Vision website to find out how you can help before the deadline of Feb. 27.

25 years ago, the CRTC determined that Canadians should have wide access to a national specialty channel where the religions and races could meet. A good and inspired idea; now even more important in a society besieged by daily news of sectarian violence.

Today, VisionTV remains Canada’s exclusive broadcaster for interfaith dialogue, and the world’s only national multi-faith and multi-cultural specialty television service. The channel is available in 10 million households across Canada on basic cable and satellite service for only 12 cents a month per subscriber. This consumer-friendly rate is the lowest cost per channel on basic cable and satellite.

Now, new CRTC rules allow cable and satellite providers to drop VisionTV from their most affordable “basic” packages. In response, the channel has launched PROTECT YOUR VISION, a campaign calling on Canadians to help support its application to the CRTC for continued distribution on basic cable and satellite services. The deadline for public intervention is February 27, 2013. CRTC hearings will begin April 23 in Gatineau, QC.

An overwhelming 85% of Canadians concur that VisionTV should continue to be included in the basic package of channels.
- 2012 Goldfarb Intelligence Marketing Study

An Important Message from Consumer Advocate and ZoomerRadio Host Dale Goldhawk

Attracted to the channel in large measure by its older viewership, in 2010 media pioneer Moses Znaimer acquired VisionTV, adding to his multi-media company uniquely devoted to the 45plus, now a massive 15.1 million Canadians. 85 percent of VisionTV viewers are 45plus; 57 percent are 65plus. Moses has since repositioned VisionTV as “Zoomer Television” and programmed the channel for, and about, this demographic’s needs and interests traditionally overlooked by mainstream television.

Relocating VisionTV to a discretionary package will make the channel both more difficult to find and more expensive to a population that is less likely to be able to afford premium pricing and whose reliable access to “faith at home” is increasingly important as they age.

In fact, VisionTV provides airtime and national distribution to 70-90 ethno-cultural communities including Canadian and US-based Christian ministries, South Asian religious groups including Muslim, Hindu and Sikh faiths, as well as Buddhist, Jewish, and non-denominational groups. These programs are only available on VisionTV.

An overwhelming 83 percent of Canadians think that a TV channel focused on multi-faith and multi-cultural issues should be available to all citizens.
- 2012 Goldfarb Intelligence Marketing Study

ZNews Covers the Protect Your Vision Campaign

For Canadian producers, VisionTV represents arguably the biggest buyer or commissioner of original documentaries celebrating a variety of religious holidays and holy days and deal with important spiritual, ethical, and social issues. The channel has invested close to $40 million in the past seven years, triggering close to $110 million in independent production budgets.

For Canadian advertisers, VisionTV delivers 3 million+ weekly viewers 45plus at one of the most affordable commercial rates in the industry. Should the new CRTC rules adversely affect VisionTV’s “basic” carriage status, they will lose an essential low cost instrument to reach, and speak to, the new centre of Canada’s demographic gravity.

Full details on VisionTV’s application and sample letters of support, visit: ProtectYourVision.ca
Or call the PROTECT YOUR VISION toll-free hotline 1-888-321-2567.

Letters of support to the CRTC for VisionTV’s application should be addressed to:

Mr. John Traversy
Secretary General, Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission
1 Promenade du Portage
Gatineau, Quebec
J8X 4B1
Re: 2012-0712-6: Application by Zoomermedia Inc., to obtain a mandatory distribution order under section 9(1)(h) of the Broadcasting Act for Vision TV – Broadcasting Notice of Consultation CRTC 2013-19.
cc. protectyourvision@zoomermedia.ca
CRTC fax: 819-994-0218.

Media Visionary and ZoomerMedia Founder Moses Znaimer and One Free World International Founder Rev. Majed El Shafie were recent guests on The Drew Marshall Show to discuss the importance of VisionTV remaining available on basic cable, how our viewers can help it stay that way and how our programming represents and celebrates freedom of religion and cultural diversity.
LISTEN HERE

ZoomerMedia Founder Moses Znaimer talked with Dale Goldhawk about the problems we could face connecting with our loyal viewership and how you can help us remain available and accessible on basic cable and satellite.
Listen to this Goldhawk Fights Back Podcast

Keeping The Beat: It’s Healthy Heart Month on The Brand New ONE

henry — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 18:15:28 +0000

It’s the centre of our physical universe, feeding and keeping our organs alive like planets depending upon light from the sun. It’s rarely wavering beat soldiering on, constantly keeping time and keeping the rhythm of all of our other bodily functions operational and in check. The well-being of our hearts is so important to our well-being overall that it has always been characterized as the centre of our emotional universe as well. When we experience loss our hearts break. When we experience success our hearts swell. When we experience happiness our hearts soar and when we love our hearts are full.

Physically speaking, the heart is a strong and powerful organ with so much capacity that can also be highly susceptible to factors that can weaken it and leave it diseased. The heart is as fragile as it is tough. Every seven minutes in Canada, someone loses their life to heart disease and stroke and 90% of live with at least one risk factor for these conditions. Every day, Canadians visit hospitals one thousand times due to heart disease or stroke. Another fact that may be surprising for some that heart disease and stroke kill more women than men. Today, less than ten percent of children are physically active enough to meet minimum guidelines and less than half eat recommended amounts of fruit and vegetables. Those are staggering numbers but research, education and advances in health care are going a long way to improve them. The Heart & Stroke Foundation raises funds for these efforts, especially during February Heart Month, and here are ways you can help.

In February, heart health is what matters most on the Brand New ONE. With that in mind, we’ve put together an enlightening and inspirational line up of shows this month full of information, tips, recipes and lifestyle approaches aimed at keeping your heart beating in perfect time. Every Saturday and Sunday in February, tune in from 2 to 4pm and 9 to 11pm ET for special episodes of Bedside Manor, Fed Up!, The First Step, What a Relief! and What’s the Alternative dedicated to the prevention of heart related ailments.

Here’s the overall schedule and here’s to many years of good heart health! Click on the program titles to see specific episode information.

FEBRUARY HEART HEALTH SCHEDULE

Saturday, Feb. 9

2:00 and 9:00pm ET/11:00am and 6:00pm PT: Bedside Manor
2:30 and 9:30pm ET/11:30am and 6:30pm PT: What a Relief!
3:00 and 10:00pm ET/12:00 and 7:00pm PT: The First Step
3:30 and 10:30pm ET/12:30 and 7:30pm PT: What’s The Alternative

Sunday, Feb. 10

2:00 and 9:00pm ET/11:00am and 6:00pm PT: Bedside Manor
2:30 and 9:30pm ET/11:30am and 6:30pm PT: Fed Up!
3:00 and 10:00pm ET/Noon and 7:00pm PT: The First Step
3:30 and 10:30pm ET/12:30 and 7:30pm PT: What a Relief!

Saturday, Feb 16

2:00 and 9:00pm ET/11:00am and 6:00pm PT: Bedside Manor
2:30 and 9:30pm ET/11:30am and 6:30pm PT: Fed-Up!
3:00 and 10:00pm ET/Noon and 7:00pm PT: The First Step
3:30 and 10:30pm ET/12:30 and 7:30pm PT: What’s The Alternative

Sunday, Feb. 17

2:00 and 9:00pm ET/11:00am and 6:00pm PT: Bedside Manor
2:30 and 9:30pm ET/11:30am and 6:30pm PT: Fed Up!
3:00 and 10:00pm ET/12:00 and 7:00pm PT: The First Step
3:30 and 10:30pm ET/12:30 and 7:30pm PT: What a Relief!

Saturday, Feb. 23

Sunday, Feb. 24

2:00 and 9:00pm ET/11:00am and 6:00pm PT: Bedside Manor
2:30 and 9:30pm ET/11:30am and 6:30pm PT: What a Relief!
3:00 and 10:00pm ET/Noon and 7:00pm PT: The First Step
3:30 and 10:30pm ET/12:30 and 7:30pm PT: What a Relief!

Hitting The January Reset Button with the Brand New ONE

henry — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 22:15:07 +0000

It’s the start of a new year full of best intentions, bright possibilities and the promise of new beginnings. Most of us enter each new year with a long list of ways and means in which we plan to be the best possible “me” we can be. Life sometimes has other plans though and can easily lead us back down old habitual roads. Research has shown that less than 50% of people who make New Year’s resolutions are still sticking with them after six months. After a year, that number falls to around 10%.

in December, we safely made our way past the perceived doomsday at the end of the Mayan Long Count Calendar, so why not make 2013 an especially opportune time to make the best of ourselves and our health? From healthier eating, to increased exercise to nurturing our spirit and deepening our knowledge, there are a myriad of ways to become the best human beings we can be. Here are 13 ideas from our friends at naturalhealthcare.ca, based on decades of research at Washington University in St. Louis, that include learning something new, volunteering, paying down our debts and taking in more cultural activities. Here are 10 more practical ideas for helping us hit the personal, social and spiritual reset button for the New Year including quitting smoking, organizing our home offices and de-cluttering and taking a family vacation or learning something new together. The ideas are endless but where there’s a way, there also must be a will.

How do we stick to our blueprints for betterment? Here are some tips and tricks. It’s all about taking those first steps with an open heart and mind, and realizing that the better we become, the better our world around us and our loved ones.

With all this in mind, January is New Year, New You Month on the Brand New ONE. Every Saturday and Sunday in January, tune in from 2 to 4pm and 9 to 11pm ET for special episodes of our series dedicated to helping you get 2013 off to the healthiest, happiest and most satisfying start possible. The Sweet Truth, Naturally Delicious and Wise Up! will provide some informed and inspired eating options for the New Year. Groomed, Empty Nesters, Simply Beautiful, The First Step and Backyard Boomers are packed with great ideas, advice and tips to keep your body and mind ready and revved up for everything this exciting year will bring.

Here’s the overall schedule and here’s to your good health all throughout 2013! Click on the program titles to see specific episode information.

JANUARY NEW YEAR, NEW YOU SCHEDULE

Saturday, Jan. 12

2:00 and 9:00pm ET/11:00am and 6:00pm PT: Wise Up!
2:30 and 9:30pm ET/11:30am and 6:30pm PT: Backyard Boomers
3:00 and 10:00pm ET/12:00 and 7:00pm PT: Simply Beautiful
3:30 and 10:30pm ET/12:30 and 7:30pm PT: Empty Nesters

Sunday, Jan. 13

2:00 and 9:00pm ET/11:00am and 6:00pm PT: The First Step
2:30 and 9:30pm ET/11:30am and 6:30pm PT: Naturally Delicious
3:00 and 10:00pm ET/Noon and 7:00pm PT: Groomed
3:30 and 10:30pm ET/12:30 and 7:30pm PT: The Sweet Truth

Saturday, Jan. 19

Sunday, Jan. 20

Saturday, Jan. 26

Sunday, Jan. 27

Winter Meditation

henry — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 20:47:50 +0000

by Padma

Winter months can be dark, cold, and long, and there are practices that can support us through these months, keeping us in good balance energetically and mentally. When we are in balance we’re happy and we feel contented. Winter’s energy can tend to make us more inward than in the summer. This going-inside season is a quieter time and can be one of the most wonderful and delicious times of the year when we know how to savor the sweet bliss of our inner silence and peace. This quiet time can, however, feel unfamiliar and even unpleasant. In the stillness of winter, old latent agitations can arise from the memory. Year after year these feelings can get associated with wintertime and then winter doesn’t seem like a pleasant, delightful time of stillness and peace, but rather becomes heavy with depression.

Traditionally, we have celebrations in winter to lighten our spirits and bring light to the dark times. We can get so excited about combating the winter, and celebrating to make ourselves happy, that these celebrations become anxious times. Now we are in a pattern of swinging from depression to anxiety throughout the winter, trying to combat the blues by getting hyped up, then crashing from the hype and falling again into sadness.

It’s possible to get our balance back through the winter by adopting a practice of meditation. Meditation makes the peaceful, quiet space of stillness a familiar and enjoyable feeling. It takes time for an imbalanced nervous system to become accustomed to being in balance, to feeling blissful. If we take a little time each day to simply sit and be at ease in ourselves, this will become more and more a natural feeling. Meditation is a training program to remind our nervous system how to feel balanced and steady, easy yet strong, quiet and yet bright at the same time. Stillness does not mean dullness or lethargy. In the deep ease of stillness we connect with a space of potential and power. We feel the energy of life in our body, and the clear, expanse of awareness of our mind. In the stillness of winter, we can re-discover the powerful space of inner stillness and train our mind and body to love touching this space every day. Winter then will not be a time of dull depression or anxious business. It will be a sacred time of self-communion and a retreat time, with every meditation session being our own private retreat. This will revitalize and make us healthier than ever. We’ll start to look forward to the long, dark winter months as a time of year when we get to be silent and still every day.

Set up a place where you can sit in peace everyday without being disturbed. Wrap yourself up in a warm shawl and settle in for a lovely sit. Enjoy being still and deeply at ease. May peace and joy be with you.

Silent Night, Holy Night, All is Calm, All is Bright.

Padma Yoga airs daily at 9:00am and 6:00pm ET/ 6:00am and 3:30pm PT on The Brand New ONE.

Enjoy a Healthy Holiday Season with The Brand New ONE

henry — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 23:22:17 +0000

While the late, great Andy Williams may have crooned that “it’s the most wonderful time of the year”, and it certainly is for most of us, we all know that the holiday season tends to usher in a period of excess. That’s in addition to a recent Conference Board of Canada report indicating that Canadians’ salt, sugar and bad fat intake is still much higher than it should be all year long. December and January are also the months with the highest incidences of heart attacks.

It seems to be easier at this time of year to overindulge and make unhealthy choices. Big family dinners and getting stuffed with sweets are de rigueur. However, with a little planning, preparation and a few common sense tips, the holidays can be as much a healthy time as they are a happy time.

The holidays are also a period that can be fraught with high emotions, stress and increases in depression. Protecting and nurturing our mental health is just as important as making healthy dietary choices during this season. Here are some tips from the Mayo Clinic to help manage holiday blues and blahs.

This season should be filled with festive fun and loving togetherness with family and friends while keeping an eye on potential physical and emotional health pitfalls. That’s why The Brand New ONE has a myriad of ways for you to celebrate, enjoy and keep healthy and happy throughout the holidays. From delicious and healthy recipes featured in Fed Up!, The Sweet Truth and Naturally Delicious, to surrounding yourself with the sights, smells and loving spirit of the season with great ideas featured in Everybody Nose and Empty Nesters, The Brand New ONEhas it all covered for the holidays.

Here’s the overall schedule and here’s to your good health during this holiday season and for the coming New Year! Click on the program titles to see specific episode information.

HEALTHY HOLIDAY MONTH SCHEDULE

Saturday, Dec. 8

2:00 and 9:00pm ET/11:00am and 6:00pm PT: The Sweet Truth
2:30 and 9:30pm ET/11:30am and 6:30pm PT: Empty Nesters
3:00 and 10:00pm ET/Noon and 7:00pm PT: Everybody Nose
3:30 and 10:30pm ET/12:30 and 7:30pm PT: Naturally Delicious

Sunday, Dec. 9

2:00 and 9:00pm ET/11:00am and 6:00pm PT: The Sweet Truth
2:30 and 9:30pm ET/11:30am and 6:30pm PT: Everybody Nose
3:00 and 10:00pm ET/12:00 and 7:00pm PT: Naturally Delicious
3:30 and 10:30pm ET/12:30 and 7:30pm PT: Fed Up!

Saturday, Dec. 15

Sunday, Dec. 16

Saturday, Dec. 22

Sunday, Dec. 23

Saturday, Dec. 29

Sunday, Dec. 30

November is Diabetes Awareness Month on the Brand New ONE

henry — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 03:11:40 +0000

It’s silent, stealthy, very potentially lethal and an estimated one in three people who have it aren’t even aware that they do. What is it? Diabetes. The chronic condition that develops when the body can’t make any or enough insulin, the hormone that facilitates glucose leaving the blood and entering our body’s cells to be used for energy and proper bodily function.

While there are two types of diabetes, approximately 90% of those with the condition have diabetes type 2, which can often exist undiagnosed for a long time. The average length of time people have type 2 prior to diagnosis is seven years and it is more likely to occur in people who are overweight, have high blood pressure and cholesterol and a family history of the condition among other factors. Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune condition that arises when the body’s immune system turns on itself and destroys cells in the pancreas responsible for producing insulin and is most often diagnosed in children and adolescents. Common health complications from having diabetes include heart disease and stroke, vision problems or blindness, kidney failure and nerve damage.

It’s likely that every Canadian has at least one person they know and love who’s dealing with this insidious condition. According to the Canadian Diabetes Association, those loved ones have become 15 years closer to experiencing a potential heart attack, stroke or death from any cause by having diabetes. As such, an estimated 4 out of 5 people with diabetes will die of heart disease – a very sobering stat.

How can people with diabetes lower that risk, or lower the risk of contracting type 2 altogether? By maintaining good blood glucose, pressure and cholesterol levels through healthy eating, exercise and lifestyle choices.

With that in mind, the Brand New ONE has dedicated the month of November to the fight against the growing health nemesis of diabetes. Every Saturday and Sunday in November, we’re featuring special episodes of some of ONE’s most popular programs that provide information, education and prevention options for diabetes and obesity. From 2:00 to 4:00pm and 9:00 to 11:00pm EST catch Bedside Manor, The Sweet Truth, Fed Up!, What a Relief!, The First Step and Yoga For Life episodes dedicated to preventing and managing diabetes and obesity.

Here’s the overall schedule and here’s to your good health! Click on the program titles to see specific episode information.

DIABETES AWARENESS MONTH SCHEDULE

Saturday, Nov. 10

2:00 and 9:00pm ET/11:00am and 6:00pm PT: Bedside Manor
2:30 and 9:30pm ET/11:30am and 6:30pm PT: The Sweet Truth
3:00 and 10:00pm ET/Noon and 7:00pm PT: Yoga For Life

Sunday, Nov. 11

2:00 and 9:00pm ET/11:00am and 6:00pm PT: Bedside Manor
2:30 and 9:30pm ET/11:30am and 6:30pm PT: Fed Up!
3:00 and 10:00pm ET/12:00 and 7:00pm PT: What a Relief!
3:30 and 10:30pm ET/12:30 and 7:30pm PT: The First Step

Saturday, Nov. 17

2:00 and 9:00pm ET/11:00am and 6:00pm PT: Bedside Manor
2:30 and 9:30pm ET/11:30am and 6:30pm PT: Fed Up!
3:00 and 10:00pm ET/12:00 and 7:00pm PT: The Sweet Truth
3:30 and 10:30pm ET/12:30 and 7:30pm PT: The First Step

Sunday, Nov. 18