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BRIE LARSON
THE OSCAR WINNER TALKS FAME, AND
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THINK YOURSELF THINLOVE THE WOMAN IN THE MIRROR
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CONTENTSS P R I N G 2 0 1 6
12 Editor’s Letter
14 Contributors
15 Giveaway
16 Behind the Scenes
19 Eco Chic
71 Grocery Basket
78 Inspired Living
82 Horoscope
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DepartmentsBEAUTY & FASHION24 Get the Look
26 Ordinary to Extraordinary Using chic jewellery to create fashionable style
32 Beauty Terminology
HEALTH36 Health News
38 What’s Up, Doc? Sex Hormones and your gut
40 Upcoming Ingredients Turmeric
42 Homeopathy Should homeopathic medicine be used in mainstream healthcare?
44 Health Cabinet
46 Think Yourself Thin How to love the woman in the mirror
48 Music Therapy for Epilepsy How listening to tunes can help prevent seizures
50 Balancing Life Cancer-Free A Viva Ambassador shares her inspirational story
51 Cancer in Canada Stats
52 Sick of Feeling Tired Understanding the facts about chronic fatigue syndrome
COVER STORY56 Making Room for Fame Oscar winner Brie Larson talks fame and her movie, Room
FOOD62 The Turmeric Taste Experience Try these recipes using this ingredient
70 What’s in Your Fridge? Liza Fromer
YOUR LIFE74 Creating Your Perfect Kitchen Follow the 2016 trends for a better eating space
76 Pet Health Fighting canine cancer
80 Travel Golf, fine dining and spa in Destination Kohler
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As the fl owers start to bloom and our attention turns to a new season, I am excited about hit-ting the streets in the early morning and run-ning in the sunshine. It can be a challenge for moms who work outside the home and juggle so many tasks to focus on their own health and fi tness. Some days, I have back-to-back TV appearances, meetings with my legal clients, planned activities with my two daughters and son, and a commitment to my husband to swing by a department store to pick up new ties and shirts. Rather than screaming and pulling my hair out, I opt for a quick run.
I have found that running is not only the best way to nurture my heart health, it’s also a big stress reliever. It’s easy for women to forget that heart disease is the leading cause of death for women and that it’s not a “man’s disease.” By reduc-ing stress, laying o� the chips and dips and by running four to fi ve days a week, I have also been able to manage my weight. It’s not always easy to get my runs in, but I have learned to treat them like business meetings and to schedule them on my calendar. They have become non-negotiable. It’s so much easier to love the woman I see in the mirror when I know I have stayed true to my run schedule even when I have had too many chips with my veggie salsa. In this issue of Viva, “Think Yourself Thin: How To Love The Woman In The Mirror”, addresses that woman and how to admire her.
I also have learned that regular exercise is essential for dealing with so many other illnesses, even cancer. One of my dearest friends continued to walk regularly even after being diagnosed with breast cancer. Her commitment to her exercise was enormously helpful to her and her family as they all worked to support her. They found that accompanying her on walks—even very short ones—provided everyone an opportunity to refl ect on the surrounding landscape and to refl ect on positive memories. Viva Ambassadors share their inspirational stories about their personal and/or family struggles with cancer in this issue.
I hope you have many sunshine-fi lled spring days and whether you are a run-ner, walker or Zumba dancer, making a commitment to regular exercise will help you spring forward.
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MAKING ROOM FOR FAMEBRIE LARSON STEPS INTO THE SPOTLIGHT AS THE NEXT BIG ACTRESS
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ll eyes are on Oscar-nominated actress Brie Larson for her performance in the Academy Award-nominated film, Room, an intense drama that tells the story of Joy “Ma” Newsome and her son Jack who, after years of living
in a garden shed, escape to explore the outside world. Larson’s performance in Room has already given the actress a
list of accolades that include Best Actress wins at the Critics Choice Awards as well as the Golden Globes. The actress was the talk of the town during last year’s Toronto International Film Festival where Room won the Audience Award. One of Hollywood’s fast-est rising stars admits she’s totally out of her comfort zone, but relishes the zone after a 20-year climb to stardom.
RISE TO FAMEAt age six, Larson became the youngest person to ever attend San Francisco’s American Conservatory Theater’s training pro-gram. One year later, Larson was cast in her first TV role on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, enabling her to receive the coveted Screen Actors Guild card.
Larson moved from Sacramento, California, to Los Angeles with her mother and sister after her parents divorced. The shy youngster was often cast in TV shows until she got her big break playing the defiant daughter on Showtime’s The United State of Tara. Feature films quickly followed—21 Jump Street, Trainwreck, and then along came her challenging role as a young kidnapping victim in Room.
ROLE PREPARATIONIn person, Larson gives o� a quality of maturity and knowledge far beyond her 26 years. She is slightly heavier than the person she portrays in Room, having lost 15 pounds to give herself a more lean and sunken look of a longtime hostage.
“I talked to doctors about the depletion of sunlight, what that would do, not getting enough Vitamin D, and not getting the right nutrition,” explains Larson on her preparation for the role. “I followed a very specific diet. I stayed at home for a month. Whatever I did, nothing could compare to the real life stories I read.”
In Room, Ma was alone for two years before giving birth to her son, Jack. Larson secluded herself from society to gain a small understanding of how Ma must have felt living in a garden shed.
At the beginning, Larson thought she could disguise the month-long preparation as a vacation. However, the seclusion soon started to bother the talented actress.
“I hit this point where I felt so depressed that I cried a lot,” admits Larson. “It didn’t help that I was on this incredibly restric-tive diet to get me into character.” Larson coped with the still and quiet by becoming a voracious reader—despite having no phone or Internet access.
Larson has shied away from speaking to any victims of abduc-tion. “I’m a very private person and there was no way I was ever going to invade someone’s privacy like that.”
In fact, Larson prefers not to discuss much about her private life and remains tight-lipped when it comes to Alex Greenwald, her actor boyfriend who accompanied her to the Golden Globes.
NEXT BIG ROLESRoom is now in Larson’s rearview and she is currently focused on her next major role in the new big budget film Kong: Skull Island, which is presently shooting in Australia.
“It’s nice that I don’t have to concern myself with a deep, a�ect-ing storyline,” says Larson. “In Kong, I’m climbing mountains and hacking through forests and getting attacked by insects.”
Besides Kong, also in the pipeline is Free Fire, alongside Armie Hammer and Basmati Blues, a musical shot in India.
ROOM FOR REFLECTIONLarson admits she’s not sure that all this attention, fame and stardom is her ultimate goal. However, the actress doesn’t want to turn away from becoming an A-lister either.
“One thing I remember vividly from my childhood was me, my mom and little sister living in a studio apartment not much bigger than the garden shed in Room,” says Larson. “I had very little in the way of possessions—two pairs of jeans, two pairs of shoes, a headband and a couple of shirts.”
The actress continues, “Instant noodles was every meal—we had nothing, we lived on nothing but it was the happiest time of my life. My mom had this wonderful imagination, which made the apartment seem magical. She went with me on all my audi-tions because I wanted to be an actor. So hopefully, I can do this for as long as I can.” VM
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