Drinking one cup of coffee can extend your life by nine minutes a day

Drinking coffee can add literally minutes to your life. It seems like just yesterday we discovered that men who marry younger women live longer. If they also drink coffee, they may well be immortal. New international research has found that your morning cup of Joe may also be extending your … Read More

More Canadians end up in hospital from drinking than from heart attacks

A new report reveals that alcohol is sending more of us to the emergency room than heart attacks. How much drinking is safe, and how can you spot the signs of alcohol poisoning? Last year, about 77,000 hospitalizations in Canada were due to conditions entirely caused by alcohol, compared with … Read More

Fake news: Most of the health rules you’ve been taught your whole life are false

Don’t sit so close to the television, you’ll go blind. You have to wait an hour after eating before going swimming. There are tons of health claims that have been thrown at me my whole life, and I’ve never stopped to ask whether or not there was any truth to … Read More

Study: Eating French fries ‘doubles’ your risk of death

In this week’s Everything You Like Will Kill You news, a new study has found that eating French fries regularly can greatly increase your chances of premature death. For this study, published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, researchers monitored the health of Americans between 45 and 79 years … Read More

Where you can buy booze in Ontario without the LCBO

[UPDATED: June 9, 2017] Ontario residents could soon find the doors to their local liquor store locked up indefinitely. Unionized workers of the Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO) had requested a “no board” report from the Ministry of Labour. That is a report that tells the union that no … Read More

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