Health Expo

On Saturday myself, my mother and my mother’s twin all went to the Health Expo down that the Direct Energy Centre. The Health Expo was open to the public for free and it was also where anyone who was participating in the Goodlife Toronto Marathon was registering and getting their digital chips activated, and whatever else you have to do before a marathon. 

As usual these past few weeks there’s a story just on getting down there. We would normally go to Union Station and take the 509 or 510 streetcar down to exhibition place. When we arrived at Union station the area for the streetcars was blocked off, I’m assuming for construction, so we had to go out of the station and up to the street level to get a shuttle bus. Normally just a quick adjustment for a regular TTC rider, you know bus for streetcar in your head, but when we got to around Bathurst we had to get off the bus and get onto another street car. I have no idea why they couldn’t just stick with one or the other on the route.

When we arrived at the Expo we got a nice little bag packed full of energy bars, ads, a magazine, some stickers and a nice little coupon for two free admissions to the ProHealExpo in Aug, can’t wait for that. We now have a nice bowl packed full of energy bars on our dining room table.

Once through the door we entered a contest with Goodlife, that booth I have an issue with, there was only one entrance and exit for the Expo and right after you went through the doors you had to walk right through this Goodlife booth, plus with everyone coming in and entering this contest and getting a little freebie, I got some lip balm, it was just way too crowded at the front.

After we finished up with the Goodlife booth we went systematically through the booths, one row at a time, I find it the best way to cover every booth and make sure you don’t miss anything. The Health Expo was about one third of the Green Living Show so that did help on time, we were all at the Green Living Show for about six hours, we were only at the Health Expo for about two maybe three hours. We tried a lot of protein drinks, shakes, and bars, we also had some boxed coconut water, I’m not a big fan of coconut to begin with, except in a pinna calada, and I hate it. My mom and her twin got a complimentary hand massage from a booth selling organic had lotions; they both enjoyed it, unfortunately for me my eczema was kind of acting up so I didn’t get it done. Molson Canadian had a booth, they gave away coupons for a free six pack of their 67 beer, you know the diet beer, I’m guessing they aren’t doing as well as they thought with that brand. There was a booth for Weight Watchers, they gave out samples of chips they have. My mom was first successful with her weight loss through Weight Watchers.

There were a few things that I noticed at the Health Expo, there were a lot of protein dinks, shakes and bars, there were a few booths telling you that the water you’re drinking is terrible, even if it’s filtered you need their hydration water, I’m not even going to try to explain that one. There was a lot of overpriced clothes and equipment, yeah there’s equipment besides shoes for runners. There was even a booth dedicated to protecting your bare feet, they were selling socks.  And there were about four or five booths for chiropractors there. I have nothing against chiropractors, one helped me deal with some of my back issues when even my doctor couldn’t help, but doe one little expo need five booths for them? If they all got together and had one booth under like the chiropractic board of Canada or whatever kind of association they have would have made way more sense.

It was a great Expo though, lots of free stuff, lots of coupons for me to use. I wonder which expo or show we’re going to next?