Healthwellness

  • StyleYahoo Canada Style

    How to save the environment: Wash your jeans less often

    Don’t launder your jeans as often as you think you should? A University of Alberta textile scientist wants people to wash their jeans less often to reduce their average carbon footprint. “Laundering and the process of fabric care … it uses up water and resources … and energy,” researcher Rachel McQueen told the Edmonton Journal.

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  • NewsErica Rae Chong

    9 things in your home that are dirtier than your toilet seat

    [All Images: Getty] Think of the dirtiest place in your home and the toilet often comes to mind. Yet you’d be better off eating off of it than your chopping board or a plate scrubbed with your kitchen sponge. We’ve identified nine places in your home that probably have more bacteria than your loo. Get cleaning!

  • NewsSamantha Simmonds, Fashion and Lifestyle Blogger

    Our 5 top one-stop beauty shops

    When you need something that works, and you need it NOW, these beauty boutiques have got you covered. Because: No beauty shopping experience is complete without an organic facial, massage, make-up lesson or nutritional consultation, right?

  • NewsSimone Olivero

    Your hangover symptoms may be a sign of something much more serious

    Like a lot of 21-year-olds, Jennifer Gray was feeling a little rough after a night out partying with friends. After running a series of tests, doctors concluded that Gray had been suffering from bacterial meningitis. While occurrences of bacterial meningitis have decreased in the last 10 years, the spread has long been linked to college campuses due to the community setting and close quarters among students.

  • EntertainmentSimone Olivero

    Mom shares her struggle to drop 156 lbs

    Over the last few years, Casey Gemmel had been focusing her time and effort on raising her three kids. So much so that she didn’t even realize that she had been gaining weight.

  • NewsDavid Harding

    You’ve Probably Been Eating Peanut Butter Wrong All This Time

    The world of peanut butter has been turned upside down. An astonishing claim has been made that thousands of peanut butter lovers worldwide may have been storing their favourite tasty treat all wrong. Lifestyle website PureWow says the jar should be put away on its head in order to keep the peanut butter fresh.

  • StyleSimone Olivero

    'Don't try to belittle me to being my skin' says model Winnie Harlow

    Canadian fashion model Winnie Harlow is a lot of things. Since the beginning of her career, Harlow’s name has been synonymous with her skin condition and the fact that she chooses not to cover up the patches of depigmented skin found on her face and body.