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It’s likely you have someone in your life who has diabetes and you may not even know it. The reason being approximately one in three Canadians have diabetes or prediabetes, but the stigma of the disease is keeping people from seeking the treatment they need. As a way to educate the … Read More
According to the Canadian Cancer Society (CRS), 5,500 Canadians will be diagnosed with pancreatic cancer this year. Approximately 2,400 men will die from it in 2017. Ninety-three percent of patients diagnosed with pancreatic cancer will die within five years; more than half of those diagnosed will die within weeks. The … Read More
More and more people are living by themselves, and households are getting smaller. While the freedom of living alone may be desirable, there are also some negative consequences. If you’re a single male, you may want to find a partner sooner rather than later because eating alone increases your chance … Read More
Today we sat down with Mitch Hermansen, Director of Development for the non-profit Movember foundation. The Movember foundation focuses on men’s health – it originally started with a focus on prostate cancer and while it always approached issues in a holistic manner, in the past few years, its taken more … Read More
When it comes to salt, we all know that less is better than more. Scientists, doctors, and public health professionals generally agree on the recommendation to eat no more than 2,300 milligrams, or one teaspoon, of the stuff per day. But recent groundbreaking research, performed on astronauts, no less, has … Read More
