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The first time Amy Kiara Ruth took a Laughter Yoga class she found it, "awkward and bizarre to be laughing with total strangers." Then she gave in, laughing harder than ever...
Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer among Canadian women. In fact, according to the BC Cancer Agency, in 2015 an estimated 3,400 women were diagnosed with the disease in the...
A meat story got international attention this week when the World Health Organization announced that regularly eating processed meats —such as hot dogs, salami and bacon —as well as red meats in...
The human body has often been compared to war ridden landscape and our immunological system to an army that fights against the attacks of bacterial infections.