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Events: Celebrate the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day
Yes, International Women’s Day has been around since 1911! There are more than two hundred events across the country aimed
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Q&A: Why your makeup may be dangerous
Best Health speaks to Gillian Deacon, journalist and breast cancer survivor, about the toxins lurking in the beauty products we...
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News: Would you try ice cream made from human breast milk?
Do you fancy some human breast milk ice cream? Londoners who were waiting to try this stange dessert won’t be
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News: Researchers find high levels of E. coli on shopping carts
It’s such a simple routine; you head to the grocery store, grab a shopping cart, plunk your purse’or perhaps your
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Nutrition: Trying the raw-food diet
Think eating raw means munching the day away on crudité and salads? It’s doesn’t have to be like that at
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Meatless Monday: Vegetable Black-Bean Casserole
How easy–and healthy–is this for a Monday meal? If you’re looking to cut back on the meat in your diet,
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Debate: Do dramatic celebrity weight transformations encourage eating disorders?
When Natalie Portman took the stage last night to accept the Academy Award for Best Actress, she looked absolutely radiant
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Beauty trend: The half-moon manicure
This week I was treated to a manicure at Toronto’s Tips Nail Bar, to try out Revlon’s newest spring
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Kids with self-control grow into successful adults
Researchers in New Zealand published a study that analyzed data from 1,000 children and tracked them until they were 32
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News: Online drug information less reliable in Canada than in U.S.
I admit that the first thing I do when a doctor prescribes me a new medication is turn to Google.
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Events: What’s happening this weekend
Here are some events happening over the next few days that may inspire you to plant a tree, rethink
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News: Depression affects how moms respond to crying babies
Crying is the primary way that infants communicate, so when I’m with a baby who starts crying, I often find
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Debate: Should you lose weight for God?
Being overweight can certainly be unhealthy, but could it also be immoral? Journey Church, an evangelical church with four locations
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What’s online from Best Health’s March/April 2011 issue
Looking for the tips and advice we mentioned in the March/April 2011 issue of the magazine? Find more on the...
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News: Bieber "hearts" Canadian health care: so what?
Justin Bieber. Are you sick of this kid yet? I’m not a 16-year-old girl, so I can’t fully understand his
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Fit Mom: Exercise helps kids do better in math
Remember when you were a kid and you spent your days outside’and you loved it? There wasn’t a lot of
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Beauty is in the details: Chanel
If there’s a beauty company that mines its history and somehow meshes it with the contemporary more than Chanel, I
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Insomnia: A drug-free treatment that might actually help you sleep
As a longtime insomniac, I recognize that there is a shame associated with not being able to sleep. The message
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Meatless Monday: Heart-smart Pomegranate Salad
How can you enjoy pomegranate? Let us count the ways. But first, here’s why it’s one of the best foods
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Nutrition: My week as a semi-vegan
For those who didn’t see last Monday’s Nutrition blog (Giving vegan cooking a whirl), I’ve spent the past week alternating
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3 steps to the perfect matte lip
One of the hottest beauty trends for spring is the sophisticated matte lip. Here's your three-step guide to getting gorgeous...
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News: Scientists release list of must-eat healthy foods
Food Technology, the magazine of the Institute of Food Technologists, recently published a list of 16 healthy foods you should
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Fit Mom: New book may help delay teens from drinking
I got a press release today that piqued my interest. It’s about a new parenting guide and microsite produced by
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News: Woman dies after cosmetic buttocks injections
This is an attention-grabbing headline, no? It might even elicit a few snickers. However, the circumstances behind the headline raises
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News: Lack of sleep increases risk for colon cancer
Sleep is important and I know the lack thereof can leave me functioning under par, so I am constantly trying
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Guest post: Man vs. high blood pressure
We’ve been amazed at the way Grant Faulkner, an account manager here at Best Health, has tackled’and defeated’his high blood
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Nutrition: Giving vegan cooking a whirl
With all the buzz about Oprah and her staff eating vegan‘no eggs, dairy, fish or meat’for a week, I thought
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News: February 6-12 is Eating Disorder Awareness Week
Let’s be honest’at one point or another, we’ve probably all been on some kind of diet. We’ve cringed at photos
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Event: World Cancer Day uses education to reduce cancer deaths
It seems like there is a special day for everything, doesn’t it? A simple Internet search on ‘special days in