Health

I’ve got besties on the brain this week. My daughter, freshly busted out of school for two months, has already hooked up with her best friend — in fact the two of them are not only playing soccer two nights a week together, but tackling about five weeks of camp together.

Barbecues, picnics and campfire cookouts embrace the relaxed vibe of summer. But a laissez-faire attitude toward food can be dangerous: According to Health Canada, a whopping 11 million Canadians get sick from foodborne illness each year, many of them during the summer. After all, “When you’re outside socializing, maybe you’re a bit more relaxed than you are in the kitchen the rest of the week,” says Brenda Watson, executive director, Canadian Partnership for Consumer Food Safety Education.

For me, a sense of mortality suddenly kicked in a few years ago in my late 20s, when I realized that almost everyone on television was now at least five years my junior. I figured it was just one short, untelevised slide into the grave from there.

A recent post over at the New York Times health blog brings more light to how exercise is awesome: It makes you feel good.

Well, we figured out the cause of the cough — now we just have to figure out what to do about it. There always seems to be another curve that is thrown my way in battling ovarian cancer, just when I think things are finally going to calm down for a bit. Here we go again...