Health

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...

Have you come across this yet? Maybe it came across on your Twitter feed, was posted on someone’s Facebook wall, or landed in your email inbox. It makes for thought-provoking reading — reportedly, it’s the insights on the top regrets of the dying, shared by a palliative care nurse.