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A NEW REALITY IN THE WELLNESS LIFESTYLE

Viva Magazine is Canada’s leading women’s Wellness Living magazine. For our reader, living well means caring about the choices they make with their health professional regarding health, beauty, style and fitness. Viva provides women with powerful and inspirational information to live a healthy life, while not compromising their sense of style.

The alarm went off at the same time it has gone off all summer. The difference is that the room was dark.That is the who...
09/04/2026

The alarm went off at the same time it has gone off all summer. The difference is that the room was dark.

That is the whole event. No jet lag, no bad week. But somewhere in the second week of September the tiredness changes texture and everyone you know says the same sentence: I don't know, I'm just so tired.

Between the 1st of this month and the 30th, most of North America loses about 90 minutes of daylight. Here is what is actually worth buying about that — five things, chosen because September specifically breaks them, with the real evidence for each and the honest caveats where the evidence is thin.

The one we would argue for hardest: you can be low on iron long before you are anaemic. The marker is ferritin, not haemoglobin, and a standard panel will not include it. You have to ask for it by name.

Full guide, prices and research → https://vivamagonline.com/blogs/magazine/five-wellness-products-to-try-september-2026

09/03/2026

Nobody at that table believed it was cauliflower. 🤍

This is Cauliflower “Lobster” Thermidor, and the quotation marks are doing honest work — there’s no shellfish anywhere near it. What it borrows is the part of Thermidor anyone actually remembers: the white w**e and Dijon sauce, the golden Gruyère crust, and a dish that arrives looking like an occasion.

The whole trick is the cut. Slice straight down through the core and every portion keeps a piece of stem running through it, so it holds up under a heavy sauce instead of falling into florets. Roast it hard so the edges caramelise, build one pan of mushroom sauce, twelve minutes under buttered panko, one under the broiler.

24g of protein a serving. Vegetarian. Gluten-free with one swap. And the sauce can be made a full day ahead, so the oven does the last twelve minutes while everyone’s already sitting down.

Save this for the next time you’re cooking for someone who doesn’t eat meat

Full step-by-step recipe at VivaMagOnline.com

Michael J. Fox and Harrison Ford have made a two-minute film about the conversation most of us will have at some point a...
09/03/2026

Michael J. Fox and Harrison Ford have made a two-minute film about the conversation most of us will have at some point and none of us have practiced.

It was produced with Maximum Effort, the company run by Ryan Reynolds, who sits on the Michael J. Fox Foundation's board, and it plays off the chemistry the two men show on Apple TV's "Shrinking." Ford asks the questions people are too polite to ask. Fox answers them the way he has answered everything for thirty years, which is honestly and with a joke somewhere in the middle.

The scale behind it is worth knowing. Parkinson's is the fastest-growing neurodegenerative disease in the world. More than six million people live with it now, the figure is projected to double by 2040, and there is still no cure. The Foundation has put over three billion dollars into research since 2000 and is about to ask for two and a half billion more.

We wrote about why the humour is the strategy, and about the thing sitting underneath it that belongs in a wellness magazine: connection is not the soft extra arranged around the edges of health.

Read the full story: https://vivamagonline.com/blogs/magazine/michael-j-fox-harrison-ford-parkinsons-campaign

09/01/2026

Nobody believes there’s no flour in this until they cut it.

Not almond flour. Not oat. Not coconut. The structure comes from roasted banana, almond butter and two teaspoons of psyllium — and it slices cleaner than the wheat version.

Here’s the part everyone gets wrong: you roast the bananas first, skins on, until they’re black and leaking syrup. Then you press the pulp through a sieve and pour that liquid down the drain. That liquid is the reason every flourless banana bread you’ve ever made sank in the middle.

9 g protein a slice. 3.5 g fibre. Enough fat alongside the sugar that it holds you to dinner instead of dropping you at three.

Would you try it — or are you still loyal to the flour?

Full recipe at VivaMagOnline.com 🍌

08/28/2026

Wake up at 3:00 every night? This is the cherry nightcap. One tablespoon pressed from a thousand tart cherries, no sugar. It doesn’t hand you melatonin, it helps you make your own. Two hours before bed. More tips at vivamagoonline.com.

08/27/2026

This is plant-based comfort food with real depth.

French green lentils, toasted walnuts and three varieties of mushrooms simmer with red w**e, pearl onions, carrots and fresh herbs until the sauce becomes rich and glossy.

Serve it over creamy mashed potatoes and save some toasted walnuts for the finish.

Find the complete recipe at VivaMagOnline.com.

Save this before your next toothache.Clove numbs dental pain about as well as benzocaine. That part is real. The little ...
08/26/2026

Save this before your next toothache.

Clove numbs dental pain about as well as benzocaine. That part is real. The little bottle of clove oil the internet keeps recommending is a different story: the NIH flags it for liver toxicity, it can poison a child at small volumes, and it burns tissue if you use it undiluted.

Whole buds in your tea and your braises: safe, beautiful, and one of the most antioxidant-dense things in your cupboard.
Concentrated clove oil: treat it like medicine, not like a wellness hack.

What clove will never do, no matter who told you — cure an infection, kill a parasite, boost immunity, or heal a cavity.

Swipe to slide 5, then send this to the friend with fourteen essential oils under her sink.

The full breakdown — how much, how often, and who should avoid it completely — is at vivamagonline.com

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08/26/2026

I put this off for years because “fresh pasta” sounded like a whole personality. It’s flour and eggs.

What actually matters:
→ Cook the mushrooms until they’re dark and dry. Any moisture left and your ravioli split in the pot.
→ Drain the ricotta. Same reason.
→ Roll thin enough to see the shadow of your hand through the sheet.
→ Gentle boil, not a rolling one. Four minutes.

Cremini, shiitake and dried porcini for the filling, with parmesan, lemon zest and thyme. Finished in brown butter with crisp sage and toasted hazelnuts.

Would you go brown butter or a creamy mushroom sauce? Tell me below 👇

Full recipe at VivaMagOnline.com

08/07/2026

We are making a loud, bright breakfast that is completely nut-free. I blend frozen bananas, raspberries, oat milk, rolled oats, and chia seeds until thick and creamy. Then I top it with fresh raspberries, sliced banana, crunchy granola, h**p hearts, and sunflower seeds. It’s fruity, creamy, satisfying, and packed with texture, and I eat the entire bowl.

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