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Discover the latest health news, along with practical tips on how to adopt a healthy lifestyle by improving your diet and moving more. From proven home remedies to advice on managing and preventing chronic health conditions, we’ll keep you looking and feeling your best.

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The Keys to Preventing Osteoporosis

Here's the good news for preventing this sneaky disease from robbing you of your good bones.


Have the Best Oral Health at Every Age

Not all pearly whites are the same. How to keep your mouth healthy at each stage in your life.


13 Things You Should Know About Hangovers

A few too many last night? Here's how to handle your aching head and queasy stomach today.


The New Food Fight: Big Food Vs. Big Organic

Have the elite hijacked healthy eating?


My Workout From Hell: The Dangers of Crossfit

CrossFit, the latest trend in extreme exercise, is as physically gruelling as it is cult-like. But is it fitness if...


Decoding the Blues: Treating Depression

The delicate art of treating depression.


5 Tips to Harness Your Creativity

Get your creative juices flowing more often with these five tips.


Creative Class: School Your Brain on How Best to Innovate

Have you ever wanted to flex your creative muscles more, but thought it was beyond your reach? Turns out that...


13 Things You Should Know About Cycling

Riding a bike is an easy and fun way to get in shape.


5 No-Equipment Exercises You Can Do Anywhere

The latest exercise craze doesn't involve bells, whistles, flexy bands, or any other special equipment. Instead, it uses you. Try...


Screen Tests: The Dilemmas of Predicting Diseases

The moral and ethical implications of testing for illness.


3 Ways to Deal With Gout

My husband is suffering from searing pain in his feet, and our doctor tells us it's gout. What can he...


Screen Captured: Do Tablets Inhibit Children’s Creativity?

For frazzled parents, tablets are a godsend. But is technology helping or hurting kids' creativity?


3 Ways to Recover From a Sports Injury

I've been training for my first half-marathon, and my right knee is killing me. Turns out I have runner's knee....


Chain Reactions: A Son’s Story of His Life-saving Donation

One kidney donation can change many lives-including your father's.


How Kids Can Make the Most of Free Time

How one woman learned to help her child get the most out of her extracurricular activities.

The Problem With Painkillers: Managing Opioid Use in Canada

They come in myriad colours and sizes, their names unpronounceable. To many patients, prescription pills represent a respite from chronic...


3 Perspectives on Living with ADHD

A growing number of Canadian men, women and children are living with ADHD. Here are three stories on a misunderstood...


8 Easy-to-Keep New Year’s Resolutions

We make New Year's resolutions with the best of intentions. We'll eat healthier, lose some weight and exercise more. It...


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5 Age-Old Ways to Prevent the Flu

It's just about impossible to predict what a flu virus is going to do. But history offers a critical guide...


10 Gifts for the Fitness Fanatic

Got a fitness buff on your shopping list this year? Step into Santa's shoes with a selection of gift suggestions...


7 Ways to Make Errands Less Stressful

Like death and taxes, there's no escaping having to run errands. Since they can eat up time better spent relaxing...

7 Ways to Lower Your Sugar Intake

Sugar: it seems to be in just about everything and while it does taste nice and please your sweet tooth,...


5 Weird Questions Answered

We all have strange questions we just need the answer to. Here are the answer to 5 things you've probably...


3 Pregnancy Tips for First-Time Moms

Three experts offer tips to first-time mothers for a happy and healthy pregnancy.


10 Tips For A Healthy and Active Family

Having trouble getting the kids outside despite the nice weather? Sometimes the video games can be first choice, but here...


9 Tips for Active Weekends

Make the most of your downtime with these suggestions for instant fitness and fun.


5 Ways To Be Productive At Work

Multi-tasking is handy for simple or uncomplicated tasks, but time management is the key concept when it comes to increasing...