Healthy Living Makes a Difference

Most people give their eyes very little thought – as long as they can see the world around them properly.

Hummus is a dish that originated in the Middle East but has become popular around the world.

Last year, American researchers at Columbia University published an article in Current Psychiatry, pointing out that “a growing body of literature links dietary choices to brain health and the risk of psychiatric illness.”

Many of you grew up taking a daily cod liver oil pill, at least in winter, which likely made your mother feel somewhat comforted as she sent her children out into the cold mornings.

Most adults have a dim recollection of Mom telling them to eat their green vegetables – and remember as well, perhaps, their resistance to ingesting the mound of spinach, beans, broccoli or kale on their plate.

It’s astounding what a difference the addition of an herb can make to a dish, raising it from merely so-so to sublime.

The longevity of certain groups in eastern Europe is sometimes attributed to their diet of fermented and sour milk.

Canada has the safest drinking water in the world, with provincial and municipal governments working to keep it that way.

The arrival of winter brings snow and cold temperatures – and like clockwork, the flu.

More than half a million Canadians currently live with dementia, a number which will increase as a higher percentage of people enters the aging population over the next few decades.