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Don’t Worry, Be Happy

I’m going to fail my exam. What happens if my company lays off staff and I’m one of them? I’m worried about my health. Are my kids safe? All of us worry about something sometimes. But how often does the thing we worry about happen —

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The Arch-Enemy: Inflammation

While a critical and necessary part of our immune system, inflammation is the root cause of many chronic conditions that plague the modern western world. Heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer’s, arthritis — all share chronic inflammation as a main ingredient. Cholesterol. The culprit of heart disease. Or

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Does Your Nutritional Supplement Cut It?

Y ou stand in Wal-Mart or your favourite health food store, staring at a massive selection of bottles and labels of all different shapes and sizes. How can you possibly make the right choice? You know you want a multi-vitamin/mineral or some vitamin C to

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The Great Truth About Health

Arthur Schopenhauer, the German philosopher best known for his book, The World as Will and Representation, said, “All great truth goes through three phases. First it is ridiculed, then violently attacked, and finally accepted as self-evident.” Funny how a man who lived in the first half of

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The Games Food Companies Play

Product packages in the grocery store scream out the virtues of their contents: Fat Free Gluten Free No sugar Added Not GMO The Nutritional Facts area on each product indicates the ingredients contained to inform consumers. Listed from highest to lowest proportion, it tells us