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What’s up, my friends, with trips where spouses are not invited? For the past few weeks, I have been moaning about the fact my guy is going away on a work related soccer tournament.

In honour of turning the big five-O (no mid-life crisis here), CoverGirl is looking better than ever and giving back!

Career advice: She's the first woman to hold the position of CLO at one of Canada's top banks, and she shares with us how she climbed the corporate ladder

My journey through Canada has begun. But first, I had to leave Mark, and the rest of my family.

How one woman’s perfect middle-class life was hijacked by addictive prescription drugs

The Royal Wedding hasn’t even taken place yet, but for some the honeymoon is already over.

In two months, I will compete in my first triathlon. Flashback eight months: I am a thirty-five-year-old mother of four children, ages nine through two, and after a decade of pregnancies, night feedings, and strolling around town at a toddler's pace, I have only recently started exercising regularly: at a hot yoga studio, two to three times a week.

A recent article in the New York Times asked the question: “What is the single best exercise?” It’s an interesting read, and there are a lot of suggestions. Fortunately, it doesn’t go out and suggest that something like swimming the butterfly or running up stairs or doing repeated burpees are THE best, because the article does qualify that “best” doesn’t always mean best.

Learn a trick that makes dicing an onion into even pieces a snap!

My friend Dr. Yoni Freedhoff, on his excellent blog Weighty Matters, says, “Yes,” obesity should be an election issue — and he’s right.

Tim Ferriss is a man on a mission — several missions, actually. Readers were first introduced to him through his last book, The 4-Hour Workweek, which focused on his effort to avoid the corporate world and its typical restrictions. His newest effort, The 4-Hour Body, covers Ferriss' attempts to hack the human body.

Question: I’ve just started working out again regularly. I think I’m getting fitter, but I’d love to know a few simple tests...