Year: <span>2021</span>

I’m often asked if just walking is “good enough” for people over 50. Of course, it depends on your goals, but the short answer is no, you need more than walking if you want to age optimally. How you train is how you gain. If you want to see improvements in strength, mobility, balance, power...

The ketogenic diet is a very low carb diet, and replaces them with fat. The reduction of carbs puts your body into a metabolic state called Ketosis. When this happens, your body is able to burn your fat for energy. It also turns fat in ketones in the liver, which can supply energy for the...

I practised as a physician for 43 years. I developed the ability to research diligently to find solutions to my patients’ problems. In retirement I have had even more time to do this, perhaps to my detriment. For a scientific journal and news junkie, the opportunities have been endless. Like many of you, I’m sure,...

Dear Reena, I dyed my eyebrows black. It stained all areas around my eyebrows, and now I look like a scary monster. Help please. — Sarah Dear Sarah, Here are a few tricks to try, being careful not to get too close to your eyes. Put a little Vaseline or glycerin or olive oil or...

If you wander through Thornton Park in the Exhibition area on Sunday afternoons, you will likely encounter a group of folks playing guitars, fiddles, banjos, mandolins and basses. Sometimes, music lovers will pull up socially-distanced lawn chairs, hang out and just listen. It all began as a response to COVID-19. Musicians could not play concerts,...

Foodtruck Wars is back, and is moving downtown. The province lifting health restrictions on July 11 is the green light festival organizers Rick and David Mah needed to get the trucks back on the street. “With the COVID restrictions, it has been a really tough go trying to organize anything,” Rick Mah said. “With the...

A small orange shirt suspended from a tree flaps in the wind over a forlorn pair of tiny pink shoes. Tears spring to my eyes. I almost cannot look. But I must. It is the very, very least I can do. We can do. We must look, we must cry, we must allow our hearts...

The universe is a pretty big place. In our galaxy alone, it is estimated there are at least 100 billion stars. If I tried counting them, I would get to 10, and then forget which ones I had counted, and would have to start again. It is naive to think those stars don’t have planets...