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Another reason to wear a hat
…and make it a wide-brimmed one. People with scalp or neck melanomas die at nearly twice the rate of people
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Save the Earth’Starting Today
For me, Earth Day has become more a day of making resolutions for the next 12 months than New Year’s
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Chocolate lowers cholesterol?
A small study from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign found that daily consumption of cocoa flavanol-containing dark chocolate lowered
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Canada No. 8 in "World’s Healthiest Countries"
Yay, Canada! To determine their list of the healthiest places to live in the world, Forbes.com looked at the latest
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How to be healthier today
It can be as easy as eating some whole-wheat pasta with roasted vegetables and enjoying a 30-minute brisk walk at
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More bisphenol A news
New research shows that bisphenol A can alter the normal activity of genes in non-cancerous breast cells so that they
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Are eating disorders contagious?
With France’s call for a “ban on thinness,” there’s much debate about what does and doesn’t promote the desire to
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Sidewalk smoking
I’ve been inspired these last two mornings by my coworker who often walks to work. I’ve been doing it to
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Happiness improves with age
Like fine wine and stinky cheese, we just get better with age. Or happier, anyway, as new research out of
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Work worries equal sleepless nights
At least once a week, I find myself staring at the ceiling at 2 a.m., my mind racing with exciting
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Women hot for team players
A new study in the journal Evolutionary Psychology gives scientific validation for the reason for our David Beckham love, and
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Retailers pulling BPA
Yesterday, Margaret Nearing blogged about plans to declare bisphenol A a dangerous substance. A number of retailers are following suit
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Secrets of a celebrity makeup artist
Top makeup artist Scott Patric spills his secrets about celebrity beauty
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What’s curbing your sexual appetite?
A study of 540 heterosexual women led by University of Guelph’s Stephanie A. Sanders concludes that current and lifetime sexual,
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No proof antioxidants will lengthen your life
A major review has found no evidence that taking antioxidant supplements will extend your life. In fact, there are even
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High cholesterol in your 40s boosts Alzheimer’s risk
There’s a new reason to get your cholesterol in check now: New research shows having high cholesterol in your 40s
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Dust mites rule the house
Researchers in Denmark, publishing in the new issue of theCochrane Review, say there’s little we can do to combat dust
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Too many choices are hard on the brain
I’m a girl who likes her choices. On a recent shopping trip, I struggled between the Kelly green and bright
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Thank cervix for labour pain
Swedish researchers have come up with a theory about what causes labour pain. I know what you’re thinking: that exiting
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Household plastic to be labelled dangerous substance
Today’s Globe and Mail reports that Health Canada will be the first regulatory body in the world to call bisphenol
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France may ban thinness
No, not for the average person. But a new bill working its way through the French National Assembly would make
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Ontario adults inhale
That’s right: marijuana use has almost doubled in Ontario since 1977, from eight percent to 14 percent in 2005, according
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Best Health’literally a day at the spa
When someone asks me what this new magazine is all about, I tell them it’s more like a day at
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Booze and your breasts
A study presented over the weekend at the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research is one of
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Psoriasis pain more than skin deep
Frustration and embarrassment affect 79 and 70 percent of psoriasis sufferers respectively, according to an online research study conducted by
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Eggs taking a beating
Last week we reported that eating eggs can lower your risk of breast cancer. But this week, they’re in the
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Housework reduces anxiety???
That’s right: playing sports, gardening, walking and even doing housework for just 20 minutes a day can reduce stress and
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Boobs and dinks
A Toronto artist is getting crafty in an attempt to get women to know their breasts so they can better
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New cancer stats and risk reducers
The Canadian Cancer Society estimates that there will be 166,400 new cases of cancer and 73,800 deaths from cancer this