Meghan Telpner

I know that my readers get their vegan underthings in a tangle whenever we hate on soy over here. I know. I understand. It goes beyond dietary choices, and to animal rights and cries for compassion. The point we continue to try and make...

Written by Meghan Telpner and Sondi Bruner

How many of you would take your paycheque and throw 40 per cent of it in the garbage?

Anyone? Bueller?

Well, that's what Canadians are doing with the food they buy and don't eat -- and it's...

One of my fave ways to keep the blood flowing is with a little spice. I like the kind of spice that brings out the flavour in food instead of scalding your tongue and making you sweat like a two-ton turkey in a Georgian...

I do my best to steer clear from the peeps who call themselves "nutrition experts" and then promote processed crap. Now I am not into judging or labelling or any of that jazz, but sometimes it builds up and gets tough to ignore.

All of this makes me want to...

You know those people who go on cleanses for a week, only to go back to eating the fatty North American processed diet full of wheat, cheese, booze and sugar?

Wait a second! You're not one of them too are you?

Here's...

There was a video posted on YouTube, by comedian Jimmy Kimmel where he asked parents to tell their kids that they ate all their candy and videotape their reactions. In a funny, mean way, every kid burst into hysterical tears. We watch...

The windchill has set in and it is that time of year again when our calendars fill with the fun (and not-so-fun) holiday soirées. We have the work functions, the friend functions, the family functions and then all those we get dragged...

Have you ever wondered why every item in the produce aisle doesn't carry that healthy check mark? Or perhaps how buying a plastic bottle of water might help women with breast cancer, or perhaps why women on a diet think that a...

As I kid, I loved staying over at my grandparents house. For one, grandparents have way less rules than parents and two, my grandma always had Chocolate Quick. Remember that? The chocolate syrup that was squeezable out of the bottle and mixed up to make the best chocolate milk or...

Is it nearly impossible to find a safe-rated sunscreen? I believe it is. This leads me to believe it's best to avoid being out in the sun at its highest as much as possible.

Now, with all those massive generalized statements being said, if you are in a situation where...