November 22, 2022 · 7:30 AM
“Me Grok”
DailyMail has an interesting article that promotes eating with your hands instead of forks, knives and spoons. After all, caveman Grok didn’t have eating utensils.
Those who are a stickler for etiquette should look away now.
That’s because we’ve all been eating the wrong way and should be eating with our hands, according to a psychologist.
Professor Charles Spence, from the University of Oxford, said giving up cutlery is the secret to enjoying food.
He says eating with our hands can ‘heighten the dining experience’ – even for meals like pasta and…
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Is It Time to Cut Back on Alcohol?
December 12, 2022 · 7:00 AM
“Is the room spinning, or is it just me?”
A few months ago I ran across a thoughtful article by Morris van de Camp entitled Love Drinking Less. It’s well worth a read if your alcohol consumption is out of control or heading that way.
Alcohol is a two-edged sword. On the one hand it makes life fun and turns strangers into intimate friends in the course of an evening; on the other, it makes a person dysfunctional. Very dysfunctional. Productive time is lost, relationships are damaged, and health is harmed.
I cannot say…
Newmarket pizzeria ordered to close after public health inspection
Walk4Pizza was cited for a number of items, including failing to protect food from contamination or adulteration, according to the inspection report
Newmarket restaurant Walk4Pizza was ordered to temporarily close by York Region Public Health following an inspection last week.
An inspection at the restaurant at 6-350 Davis Dr. found a number of items not in compliance on March 10.
According to the inspection report from public health, it failed to protect food from contamination or adulteration, failed to keep equipment surfaces clean as necessary, failed to ensure a certified food handler was present at all times, and was not…
US Life Span Falling Behind Our Peer Countries
March 6, 2023 · 7:29 AM
From NPR:
The average life expectancy for Americans is shortened by over seven months [in 2021]according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
That decrease follows an already big decline of 1.8 years in 2020. As a result, the expected life span of someone born in the US is now 76.4 years — the shortest it has been in nearly two decades.
But we still have the best healthcare system in the world, right? Not if you judge it by life expectancy. From Health System Tracker:
Life expectancy in the…
Food insecurity in kids linked to need for more mental health, substance use help: Ontario study
Toronto resident Rhonda Miller knows how difficult it can be to afford the basic necessities.
The 52-year-old lives in an apartment with her daughter and two granddaughters, who are nine and six.
Rising rents and food prices mean Miller has to sometimes choose between paying her bills or buying groceries.
“I leave the bills until I can afford it, because I have to get the food,” she told CBC News.
The Millers rely on social assistance and income from some part-time work, but they say it’s not enough to keep pace with the rising cost of living.
“It’s really difficult…
Experts warn that the Tik Tok trend of eating borax is highly dangerous
Health officials are fighting to convince people that one of the latest Tik Tok trends — adding borax to their drinking water to reduce inflammation and ease joint pain — is dangerous and can kill. Photo by Chemicalinterest/Wikimedia Commons
July 22 (UPI) — Health officials are fighting to convince people that one of the latest Tik Tok trends — adding borax to their drinking water to reduce inflammation and ease joint pain — is dangerous and can kill.
Borax is found in laundry detergents and in cleaning supplies. And another formulation of boric acid, boron, can kill cockroaches and other…
Nova Scotia Health, IWK to drop mask requirements in some facility areas – Halifax
Nova Scotia’s two health authorities plan to drop COVID-19 masking requirements in some areas of their facilities this week, though masks will still be required in high-risk spaces.
Nova Scotia Health and the IWK Health Center are changing their guidelines beginning Monday.
Nova Scotia Health spokesperson Jennifer Lewandowski said in a statement that this was an “evaluated response to where we are as an organization and what’s happening in the community from a COVID-19 perspective.”
“While COVID-19 continues to circulate, COVID-19 activity has continued to decline with fewer hospitals and outbreaks and fewer health-care staff off work due to COVID-19,”…