It Was a Rainy Night
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Crafter Q+A: Melissa Lowry of Milon&Ben
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Touring Toronto's most inspirational gardens
The Toronto Botanical Garden‘s “Throug...
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Two easy ways to prepare rhubarb
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Editor's pick: The best hair ties
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5 steps to your best bikini body
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Jennifer Villamere
Member since Sep 29, 2008
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Boot Camp news plus Read for the Cure contest winners
Waaay back on August 25, I asked you to tell us about your favourite Health & Wellness Club workout and fitness video for a chance to win one of three mini-libraries featuring books from all nine of this year’s Read for the Cure authors, including Ian Brown, Margaret Atwood, Linden MacIntyre and more. (For more [...]
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BPA’s toxic – what does that mean for you?
Last week, Canada made the dramatic move of declaring bisphenol A (better known as BPA) toxic. The Globe and Mail reported this in an Oct 13 article, Canada first to declare bisphenol A toxic: “Canada has become the first jurisdiction in the world to declare the everyday plastic-making compound bisphenol A to be toxic, an [...]
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‘The Biggest Loser’: Weight loss at what cost?
Season 10 of ‘The Biggest Loser’ premiered last week, and if you’re like me, you’ll be spending your Tuesday nights guiltily enjoying the controversial weight loss reality game show. I checked in with Canadian Living‘s Facebook fans and they confirmed that it’s a show that many love to hate (or hate to love, like I [...]
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Vitamin D: Over a million Canadians are deficient. Are you one of them?
Vitamin D has been all over the news recently. So what’s all the fuss about? An August 25 Montreal Gazette story, ‘Vitamin D deficiency linked to cancer, autoimmune disease genes,’ reports: “Scientists have found that vitamin D influences more than 200 genes, including ones related to cancer and autoimmune diseases like multiple sclerosis — a [...]
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And the winner is . . .
On August 3, I asked you how you have cut down on your salt intake for a chance to win a collection of 10 McCormick Gourmet spices. Congratulations to our winner, Rumiko, who says: “I’ve really come to love cooking and make many things from scratch, and we try to avoid prepared and processed foods [...]
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The BMI calculator – friend or fraud?
There has been some controversy in recent days over the validity of Body Mass Index (BMI) as a tool to measure if you’re a fatty or not. For years, the BMI has been considered the standard measure of obesity. It takes into account a person’s weight and height and comes up with a percentage that [...]
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Tell us about your fave Canadian Living Health & Wellness Club video for a chance to WIN!
Canadian Living boasts a library of fab Health & Wellness Club workout and fitness videos that you can use year-round to help you get and stay in shape. You can find all our Health & Wellness Club videos here. Tell us which of Canadian Living‘s Health & Wellness Club videos is your favourite for a [...]
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And the winner is . . .
On July 22, I asked you to tell us about what you do to enjoy life for a chance to win a copy of The Mayo Clinic Diet, by the weight-loss experts at Mayo Clinic. Congratulations to our winner, Sue, who says: “Here’s what I do to enjoy life: I play beach volleyball (I started [...]
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Are you eating too much salt? And a chance to WIN!
You may have read reports online over the weekend that Health Canada’s sodium advisory group says we need to cut our daily salt intake by one third, from about 3,400 milligrams to 2,300 milligrams daily (that’s about a teaspoon of salt a day, max). Sounds good to me. I’ll just put away the saltshaker, right? [...]
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Eat well. Enjoy life. And a chance to WIN!
Any diet program that invites me to toss out the food scales and calculators gets my attention. There’s something about weighing my food that makes me wonder if I’m taking my eating too seriously. (Also: I’m not really that interested in how much that chocolate Danish weighs. I’m more interested in seeing how fast I [...]
