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With obesity rates among adults and children increasing in Canada and the U.S., more public health experts and advocates are beginning to look at how food addiction, which many argue is parallel to problems related to drugs and alcohol, may be contributing to the issue.

Ever wonder why your mother can't stop raving about that nice boy at the grocery store? The dorky looking one who always helps her with her cart? And why she frowns every time you mention your partner? The one who forgot to pick you up from work--again.

There are few things worse than feeling you’re not getting the whole truth from someone or that they’re keeping something back or to themselves. It doesn’t matter whether it’s a straightforward question of finance, a basic query about how a person is feeling, or a complex query related to romance — most of us want to feel that we’re getting honest answers.

This is pretty much the best thing to happen to anyone, anywhere, in a long, long time. Here's how it went down: Dick Van Dyke fell asleep on a surfboard and drifted out to sea....

From white lies to whoppers, how bad is our daily deceit quota? Researchers at the University of Massachusetts (via the Ottawa Citizen) found that 60 per cent of people lied up to three times in just 10 minutes. That’s nearly nine lies every half hour (in the spirit of honesty, I confess I had to use a calculator to figure that out).