Health

What are the worst foods in North America? The Center for Science in the Public Interest revealed their 2011 list yesterday, and it has some doozies: desserts with two and a half days' worth of saturated fat, drinks with more than half a day's calories.

What is it that we love about road trips? Theoretically, they shouldn’t be as much fun as they are: you’re in close quarters for lengthy chunks of time, you’re away from the comforts of home and you’re touring unfamiliar terrain.

How do you define a happy person? I mean, are we looking for someone who’s always smiling and saying hello? Or how about the friendliest neighbour on the block? Maybe that colleague who always sees the bright side in everything?

After David McGuire sustained a brain injury in 2005, doctors told him that he would never walk again. A year later, he entered his first marathon. Now, he’s running a marathon a day across Canada, in support of brain injury awareness, as part of an event he's created called A Run to Remember.

This week in Toronto, the temperature has consistently been in the 30s — and, once you factor in the humidex, the 40s. While that level of heat might sound like misery to some, I'm having a pretty great time. So why is the heat wave making me so happy?