Health Corner

Canadian researchers are digging deep into serious food allergies and coming up with issues that have made Health Canada sit up and take notice.

Summer’s just around the corner and, for many of us, so is allergy season. But Julia Woodford, Editor of Vitality Magazine, recommends three simple steps that can prevent allergies before they start and even cure them after they’ve taken hold.

Cure a peanut allergy? End your dependence on corticosteroid inhalers? According to Dr. Xiu Min Li from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, Chinese herbal medicine can do this and more in the fight against allergic asthma.

The results of a recent study published in a July 2010 issue of the Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention journal found that fish oil supplements may reduce the risk of breast cancer by 32%.

An abundance of research and clinical experience has proven that exercise is one of the most effective ways of regliating mood.