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    Canadian parents are using sleep aids to get their kids to go to bed

    A Canadian survey presented to the Canadian Pediatric Society last summer showed that 70% of children have a problem going to sleep. Of those children, 27% had been given over-the-counter (OTC) sleep aids such as the hormone melatonin or antihistamines. Add to that the results of a study by Dr. Dirk Bock of Western University (he also conducted the survey), published in the July 2015 issue of the journal Sleep Medicine, which found that 30% of physicians prescribed OTCs for insomnia to otherwi

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    Can you really get fit with a three-minute workout?

    The product by Charlotte Crosby, star of British reality series Geordie Shore, has sold more copies in the UK than Disney’s Frozen. Crosby claims you’ll lose five pounds in a week and burn off your belly ripples if you follow her intense interval-style method. Matt Reid, general manager of Studeo 55 in Vancouver, B.C., who has been in business for 15 years and dedicated thousands of hours getting ordinary folks into athletic shape, pointed out it’s not just fitness DVD collections that aren’t

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    The challenges of adopting a child in Canada as a single parent

    Ed Daranyi faced skepticism when he decided to adopt. “Probably the hardest thing was continuously convincing people, social workers specifically, that this wasn’t just a phase I was going through or an accessory I was looking for. “And that a male could have the same desire and feeling as a female to build a family,” said Daranyi, a Resident Teaching Artist at the Stratford Festival, in Stratford, Ontario.

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    Where to eat when Christmas dinner isn’t your thing

    This is for any holiday orphans out there. It’s for the family whose feast was stolen by neighbourhood dogs. This is for people (like me) who tend to scorch holiday meals. And it’s for folks who suffer night terrors at the thought of eating turkey.