Health

I couldn’t help myself. There it was, staring at me from the Chatelaine.com homepage — 57 cookies!

“… Those who are so willing to inject mercury containing vaccines into people under the delusion that they are forwarding public health… should be required to submit the scientific evidence for their decisions.” — Flu vaccine statistics don’t add up, in the Nelson Star, Nov. 15, 2011

Burn calories and build muscle with these double-duty moves

Soup and sweater season is once again upon us, and so it's with a heavy heart that I bring you this news: Your soup might be poisoning you. (Sweaters have not, thus far, been implicated in any wrongdoing beyond the appearance of excess bulkiness.)

Last week the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care released new guidelines for breast-cancer screening for Canadian women: their recommendations are now that women under 50 who have an average risk of developing breast cancer should not have routine mammograms, women 50 and older should have mammograms every two to three years, and clinical breast exams and self exams shouldn't be used.