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The so-called freedom convoy has torn off the protective tissue on what it means to “be a Canadian” to expose an ugly truth.
As people age, the chemical signaling pathways in muscles become less potent, and it gets harder to build muscle and maintain strength. But the health benefits of strength training only increase with age.
Sensors that measure sweat could be coming to the market soon, but for them to be useful, we’ll need to understand more about this fluid that our body produces.
As many people have died with COVID in Australia – more than 1,000 – as die from a bad year from influenza. Attention on them doesn’t seem to have spiked proportionately.
Child care workers are at the center of the food insecurity crisis in America. In 2020, nearly one-third of them were food insecure.
‘One of the greatest honours of my career thus far.’
Addressing racial and ethnic health gaps is becoming even more important as the US population continues its shift toward a minority-majority nation.
Sugar gets a bad rap, but exactly which sugar is meant? Nutrient-dense sweet ripe fruits are a far cry from refined table sugar – and their differences can have big health implications.
The new year is a perfect time to adopt new health habits and routines. These four scholars reflect on the ways that they overcame the pandemic blues to get fit.
Just because something is sweet doesn’t necessarily mean it is sugary. There are a number of molecules that taste sweet. To understand how and why takes a little bit of chemistry.
There are many reasons to be pessimistic about the future – but what if we got it right? Here’s the case for optimism.
Celebrity diets are nothing new, they were popular centuries ago, a trip through history shows.
Children with dyslexia seem to find it more difficult to judge the direction of moving dots - this could explain why reading is also more challenging.
A new study looked at advertising and purchase data for children’s drinks and suggests that ads and pricing strategies contribute to sweetened children’s drink purchases.
Budgets on their own don’t solve structural issues. But they do provide some insight into government plans for addressing its broader developmental priorities.
Many of the temperatures presently being recorded in Africa, and those projected in the next decade, are already close to the limits of human survival, or “liveability”.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy’s latest ranking indicates that the coronavirus and heightened awareness about racism made a difference, but not necessarily a lasting one.
Was participating in ceremony despite pandemic restrictions an act of Indigenous resistance and resurgence and did it reflect reassertion of nationhood and self-determination?
Women and girls in low-income countries are disproportionately likely to be affected by the plastic waste that’s flooding our planet.
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