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A plate of meat lasagna gave me the worst night of my life, but there may be an upside...

So, no video this week because once again, I got sick. I had a wicked flu on Monday night that had me violently ill throughout the night. It took me a couple of days to recover from that. Not the best way to start the week, especially after suffering a series of migraines last week, including one on my birthday last Tuesday, the 10th.

Nobody said Infertility Awareness Week was going to be fun. Clearly, for a number of women who read my Q&A with fertility expert Dr. Yaakov Bentov this week the very idea that infertility could be a serious concern after the age of 35 was troubling. I've got news for these women: it troubled me too.

When my husband and I bought our house we got lucky — the previous owner hadn’t put a lot of time or effort into sprucing the place up for sale. It looked really bad, actually — it was cluttered, there was dog hair everywhere and the basement tenant was a major slob (you couldn’t even see the floor because of the piles of dirty socks everywhere).

Kyran Pittman met her second husband online while still married to her first, and she ended up moving to Little Rock, Arkansas for him and raising three sons behind a white picket fence - a long way away from where she began. Here, the author of Planting Dandelions, explains how she ended up there, and why it makes her happy.

It’s been an ugly week for powerful men and the unfortunate women with whom they come in contact. On Monday, a chambermaid at the Sofitel Hotel in Manhattan claimed that then IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn sexually assaulted her when she entered his room to clean it.

Find out how upping your intensity, whether walking or running, can increase your calories burned.

Seeds are a great way to make your diet a bit healthier, thanks to their healthy fats and abundance of nutrients. Check out this guide on the best choices and how to use them.

Career advice: The 27-year-old is one of Ontario’s few female organic dairy farmers, single-handedly managing 40 cows and 100 acres.

If nothing else, preparing for a triathlon has given me an appreciation for cross-training. Over the years, I've been a dabbler: a hatha yoga class here, an evening jog there. But I've never kept up anything for very long, or with any consistency, let alone alternated between more than one activity.

This week is Canadian Infertility Awareness Week (CIAW). Because I know so many who have suffered from infertility, I want to spread the word. I have wondered about what it would be like if I decided to have another child. Though there are no plans, I often wonder if it would be as easy as when I conceived my first child. (Drunk and unplanned – could that be any easier?)

A survey in the UK last year revealed that more women preferred liposuction to exercise. According to the article, “Specifically, 34 percent of women said they would elect to lose excess weight through liposuction, another 26 percent would choose a gastric bypass, and just 14 percent would consider cutting calories. Only two percent of respondents said that they would exercise more to reduce their weight.”