Health

A new study published in Obesity found that women who've had liposuction may be trading their saddlebags for a tubby tummy, and not losing any fat.

I love reading www.weightymatters.ca. Written by Canadian nutrition watchdog, family doctor and founder of Ottawa’s Bariatric Medical Institute, Dr. Yoni Freedhoff, the good doctor always makes me think and causes me to challenge my assumptions.

I've established one crazy goal: complete a triathlon. And I've identified a major impediment to that goal: the fact that I've never learned to swim. The next step is clear as tropical water: learn to swim, woman!

There’s definitely no shortage of specialty diet advice available — whether you’re on a low-carb, low-fat, gluten-free, vegetarian or macrobiotic diet, you can find a book to give you the goods on how to do it right. But what do you do when you really want to start with the basics?

Recently, I was in a small mountaintop village in Crete, watching an elderly woman work on a loom. (I know, I know. I didn't expect it, either.)