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Find out how you can use proper nutrition, detoxification and alternative medicine treatments to increase your fertility while improving your overall health

As summer approaches, I'm shifting the focus of my exercise routine a little more to the core, working on my ab muscles. This week I've been testing the Abdometer, the latest gadget in core fitness from Vancouverite and certified personal trainer Shaun Karp. He has 20 years of experience working with women's fitness.

Moms-to-be shouldn't choose to induce labour or have C-sections earlier than 39 weeks, a new study says. "There’s a common perception that if you just get to 34 or 37 weeks, everything will be fine," said Alan Fleischman, senior vice-president and medical director at the March of Dimes. But recent research suggests that's not true — and a major study released yesterday found that the risk of infant death for a 39-week pregnancy is half that of a 37-week pregnancy.

You might think that being happy is the fairly obvious answer to all of your problems. But it turns out that happiness might in fact be the worst solution ever to one of life's biggest problems: the inevitability of death. According to a recent story by Richard Alleyne in the Telegraph — "Feeling happy? Don't be too smug as chances are you will die young" — people who are excessively joyful are more likely to die young than their more dour peers.

Empowered patient: Think this chronic illness affects only the elderly? Think again