Living

Chatelaine's 2012 summer reading guide will help you pack a page-turner for your vacation this year

There are plenty of diets that, should you choose to stick to them, will help you shed excess weight, and sometimes in short order. But fad diets or diets that restrict calories or certain food groups, while often effective in the short term, aren’t always the best method for keeping weight off in the long term.

There may be some reasons to love — or at the very least, respect — that sweaty roll of flesh that separates your breasts from your backside.

In a recent essay for The New Yorker, writer Elizabeth Kolbert draws on recent studies and books on parenting to make the argument that kids today, particularly in the U.S., may just represent the most spoiled and overly indulged children in history.

Do something wrong, something to hurt someone you care about, and to make proper amends you say ‘I’m sorry’— or so goes the (wishful) thinking.