Remember when everyone thought things would be back to normal by September? Instead, children are returning to classrooms with caseloads climbing. So how should parents prep kids for the return to in-person schooling? Is it safe? Would they be better off being taught virtually? And when should we expect vaccines to be approved for those who are under the age of 12? For guidance, we turned to a pair of Medcan experts: Dr. Janice Weiss, director of child and youth, and Dr. Jack Muskat, clinical director of mental health.

Soon, all adults will have the opportunity to get the COVID-19 vaccine. The Medical Advisory Services Team at Medcan compiled the top questions they’ve been hearing from corporations and clients. Here, host and CEO Shaun Francis takes them up with chief medical officer Dr. Peter Nord.

The point of preventive cardiology is to inform people they’re on a path toward developing heart disease so they can change in time to make a difference. Heading into February’s Heart Health month, guest host Dr. Peter Nord talks about early screening tools with Dr. Beth Abramson, Medcan’s director of cardiology.

Many of us want to change—yet something stops us from actually doing it. University of Victoria exercise psychologist Dr. Ryan Rhodes is an expert at bridging that gap. In this interview with Medcan’s Dr. Jack Muskat, Dr. Rhodes provides pointers designed to help us all cross the chasm.

Best-selling novelist Karma Brown has a new non-fiction book: The 4% Fix: How One Hour Can Change Your Life. It’s a compelling case study in the way trivial-seeming changes can create transformative effects—with lessons for us all.

As people seek to activate their resolutions, Medcan psychology team lead Dr. Jack Muskat and executive producer Christopher Shulgan use their own personal experiences with lasting lifestyle change to extract lessons for others.

Exercising and eating well but it doesn’t make a difference? Registered dietitian Leslie Beck steps in as guest host to describe eight common calorie blunders that could be keeping you from losing weight—and provides tips on how to solve them.

Host Shaun Francis talks to Dr. David Macklin, who discusses the creation of positive habits, such as how to become more physically active. Plus: The value of long-term thinking, and how to avoid getting derailed by slip ups.

In 2020 we explored nutrition, fitness and mental health—as well as a little virus known as COVID-19. This year-in-review show sees Shaun and producer Christopher Shulgan look back on Eat Move Think’s first 43 episodes, using our 10 best moments to chronicle recent history’s most eventful 12 months ever.

Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca—their vaccines and others will dominate the public discussion for months to come. When will they be ready? When will they change our lives? Medcan’s chief medical officer, Dr. Peter Nord, guest hosts with occupational health experts Dr. Jason Abrams, Dr. Matthew Burnstein and Dr. Alain Sotto.

The Backyard Quarantine Ultra requires its contestants to run for as long as they can. The absence of a clear finish line makes it a proxy for the coronavirus pandemic, argues running columnist Alex Hutchinson, who extracts lessons to help us all navigate the next few months.

What actions create a healthy lifestyle? What preventative health measures should we all take to ensure a long, happy and active life? It’s all in here. With the help of Medcan experts, host Shaun Francis and producer Chris Shulgan distill the recommendations in a tidy half hour.

Not getting enough shut-eye can lead to weight gain, memory problems and poor mental health. In this episode, host Shaun Francis interviews Dr. Jean-Philippe Chaput, the sleep expert who helped to develop both Canadian and World Health Organization guidelines on the topic.

Heart disease is the second highest cause of death of Canadians, behind cancer. About 63,000 Canadians have heart attacks every year. Dr. Beth Abramson is a Toronto cardiologist who argues that recent advances in cardiology are changing the way we understand life after heart attacks.

In the U.S. and Canada the public-health response to COVID-19 discouraged people from visiting hospitals or seeking care from MDs, prompting cancellations for childhood vaccinations, colonoscopies and mammograms. How will such decisions affect overall wellness? Host Shaun Francis interviews Dr. Ateev Mehrotra of Harvard.

Wearable technology is integral to wellness, with such devices as the Fitbit, the Oura Ring and the just-released Apple Watch Series 6. But which is best? For guidance, host Shaun Francis talked to tapped-in tech observer Amber Mac about the little-known wearable that tops everything else.

Instead of keeping case numbers down, Harvard Medical School biostatistician Martin Kulldorff suggests we allow COVID-19 to spread through the young while protecting the vulnerable until we reach herd immunity. In a feature interview with host Shaun Francis, Kulldorf describes his logic.

Guest host Leslie Beck interviews Prof. Sylvain Charlebois of the Agri-Food Analytics Lab at Dalhousie University. Charlebois is an expert in food trends and describes the way the pandemic has shifted eating patterns away from restaurant eating toward home cooking. Plus: Poutine!

Health columnist André Picard is one of the most closely read pundits of the pandemic. Here, he speaks with host Shaun Francis about learning to live with COVID-19, the effects of the virus on long-term care, and what the pandemic reveals about our health-care system.

Dr. Arya Sharma is a crusader for a new, medical approach to treating obesity that takes into account just how difficult it can be for a person to lose weight and keep it off. Here, he’s interviewed by Dr. David Macklin, Medcan’s director of weight management.