Put a greater variety of colourful foods on your kids’ plates, and they’ll be more likely to eat up.

Put a greater variety of colourful foods on your kids’ plates, and they’ll be more likely to eat up, says a recent study from Cornell University. Six brightly coloured foods is the optimal number, but even three helps.

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Five health benefits of peaches and a delicious gluten-free crisp

Health benefits of peaches and a delicious gluten-free crisp dessert recipe with berries

Love you! Just saying . . . It was an innocuous text, the kind of message a partner taps out to the love of their life once in awhile.

A new study on how text messages can help boost a person’s happiness. Although in the context of this study, the text messages were part of a study around depression and it was discovered that routine texting can help patients with depression feel more loved and connected. Adrian Aguilera, lead author and an assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley, shares more about the power of text. Q and A.

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Five health benefits of quinoa and a delicious breakfast recipe with goji and cranberries

Health benefits of quinoa and a breafkast granola recipe with craberries and goji

The trick of a truly amazing detox lentil lime soup is to use fresh lime juice and add it right at the end to preserve its incredible flavour.

Detox lentil lime soup recipe

A detox lentil-lime soup recipe that uses the highly nutritious powers of fresh lime juice.

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Reach out and text someone to make them happy

Quinoa granola with berries: Superfood recipe Day 14

Detox lentil-lime soup recipe