What Is Red Dye Doing Our Kids?
“Families are struggling against a tide of junk information on junk food.” - Diane Abbott A Sea of Red Dye: Dying our food isn’t new. We’ve been using natural ingredients, like beet juice and turmeric, to enhance our food’s colour for thousands of years. But the...
How Much Screen Time Is Too Much?
“I'd like to play a video game where you help the people who were shot in all the other games. It'd be called 'Really Busy Hospital.” ― Demetri Martin What are Screens doing to our Kids?: How much screen time should kids get? In a world saturated with flashy devices,...
Candy Coloured Poisons
“The dose makes the poison.” - Paracelsus Pretty Poisons We all know we must keep the bleach locked away from the kids. We care about safety, and bleach looks and feels like poison. But what if the bleach looked like candy? Or what if the poison didn’t seem like a...
Lice 101: Mythbusting, Avoiding, & Superlice
“Yes, you will scratch your head a little after reading this. I was itchy the whole time writing it.” Me Head Lice: Myths & Facts I know what you’re thinking. Ew. But while we don’t like to think about them, they could happen to anyone, and knowledge is power. So...
The Ice Bucket Challenge
I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver. ― Maya Angelou The Summer of the Ice Bucket Unless you were living under a rock in 2015 (or offline), you probably heard about the Ice Bucket Challenge, a fundraising campaign...
Dealing With Sleep Deprivation
"Sleep is the chain that ties health and our bodies together." -Griff Niblack When are Daylight savings dates for 2017? DST start: (Clock forward 1 hr): Sunday, March 12, 2:00 am DST end: (Clock back 1 hr): Sunday, November 5, 2:00 am The Effect of Daylight Saving...
Zika 101
“I think there are precautions we have to take… You always have to know what’s going on, especially traveling overseas.” Michael Phelps, at the Rio Olympics, 2016 What is Zika & What does it do? Zika is one of many viruses that you can get from a mosquito bite. It...
Black Mold 101: How To Find It And Deal With It Safely
Hygiene is two thirds of health.” Lebanese Proverb Black Mold (Stachybotrys chartarum) 101: I’m a big Lord of the Rings nerd. Those movies are full of nasty creatures that seem scary, like orcs, but when you realize that they only live in the darkness and shrivel up...
Seasonal Affective Disorder: Do You Know How To Spot It?
“ Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.“ Helen Keller S.A.D. 101: While there are many wonderful things about living in Canada, winter isn’t one of them. The long nights and cabin-fever inducing cold are enough to bring...