longevity

Spending eight hours a day sitting in a chair can have a negative impact on health — but you can offset those side effects with as little as 20 minutes of exercise a day.

How your daily cup of coffee is doing more than keeping you awake.

Shockingly, a lack of social bonds and loneliness has the same negative impact on overall health and longevity as smoking and alcoholism.

It will come as no surprise that people who are happy and more positive enjoy life more, but according to a review of over 100 studies by scientists from the University of Illinois, it turns out that those same people actually live longer than their grumpier, less content peers.

I spent the last month in Israel, where I was on a steady diet of beige foods: hummus, pita, tahini, falafel, and shawarma. It was delicious - and very filling - but I am happy to be back in Toronto for local fruit season.