Posts tagged health

A study released yesterday (which involved 3,000 people aged 57 to 85.),  took a look at what keeps folks healthy as they get older, examining …

Millions of people suffer from chronic sleep disorders that decrease daily functioning and adversely affect health and longevity. To make things worse, one study even …

If you are eating any of these 10 foods listed and you care about your health and your waistline, it is time to adjust the …

Go nuts!  Eating a walnut a day could have huge benefits according to a new study.  A study has found that age related health problems …

How should people decide whether or not to have a colonoscopy? New guidelines for this procedure have recently been published in The Canadian Medical Association …

It is so easy to gain weight during the winter months when comfort foods rock most people’s worlds.  That feeling of wanting to stay inside …

The figures are sad…  In the U.S. every year 40,000 children are born suffering with fetal alcoholic syndrome disease (FASD). In Canada there are more …

The child is father to the man – Gerard Manley Hopkins   It’s February again and that means it’s Heart Month. Remember in the movie Groundhog Day …

We’ve been told for years that a nutritious apple a day helps to keep the doctor away. But could alcohol have the same result during …

A new report from the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) compared well off and poor Canadians on 16 health indicators which included things like smoking, hospitalizations …