The Power of Support Groups
Bodymind – Making Positive Connections
Whack the Tobacco
It’s never a great idea to replace your smokes with chewing tobacco. You’re still going to have to kick the habit eventually
Top 10 Men’s Maladies
The new website of the B.C. Men’s Health Initiative, www.aboutmen.ca, lets men navigate their health by age
Research Spotlight
Dr. Catherine Field, professor of nutrition at the University of Alberta Institute for Human Nutrition, has been looking at an oily solution to tumour growth: long-chain DHA, an essential fatty acid found in cold-water fish, such as Arctic char, herring and salmon
Ask the experts
If you have been treated for cancer or know someone who has, you may have asked or heard these questions.
Sweet Berries, Strong Medicine
Berries, strictly speaking, are not medicine
Put the Stink on Cancer
Breast cancer treatment is difficult on a number of counts, not the least of which is nausea, appetite-and-weight change, fatigue and hair loss
A Flesh Wound?
Remember the scene from the British comedy Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), where King Arthur encounters the Black Knight, famed for his toughness?
7 Days, 7 Ways to Better Health
Forget making resolutions or pledging yourself to a wholesale lifestyle change
TELUS Goes Pink
The Alberta Cancer Foundation is the recipient of a $500,000 corporate donation
