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The Golden Rule — that you should treat others as you’d wish to be treated — should be amended to include the footnote: ‘because it increases the amount of joy, happiness and goodness in the world and may in fact be the source of the same.’

Take fitness into your own hands by hanging from a tree (literally) and making use of your own furniture

Mason jars always remind me of my grandmother's basement which was filled with dozens of jarred vegetables and fruit from her garden. Though Mason jars are most widely used for food storage, they can also be used for many super chic things.

Pasta is one of our go-to meals, especially when a) life is so busy I can’t think much past a three-ingredient recipe, and b) I don’t feel like cooking (and yes, I know for some boiling water constitutes ‘cooking’).

Bryce Wylde is a Toronto-based alternative health expert who takes pride in challenging himself through fitness and doing it for a great cause. Last summer he climbed Mount Kilimanjaro to raise awareness for mental health, this month he took part in Trailwalker, a 100-km race (to be completed in 48 hours) to help raise money for Oxfam and next summer he plans to bike across Canada.

Today you decide between the stairs or a hill. Moving your legs gets the most benefit cardio-wise

In our teens and 20s, weekends are a whirlwind of activity spent with a group of friends, mainly about something you did together last weekend. This may not be the case in our 30s, 40s and beyond.

For most of us, completing a marathon seems like a Herculean task. For Claire Lomas, 32 (left), it was impossible. Paralyzed from the chest down after a horse-riding accident five years ago, she knew she would never be able to walk again.

Here's what we suggest you do with leftover graham-cracker crumbs

Here's what we suggest you do with leftover vanilla bean pods

Here's what we suggest you do with leftover pickled banana peppers

Here's what we suggest you do with leftover Ovaltine