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CLUG: An Easy, Elegant Way To Store Bikes

May 21, 2014/0 Comments/in FITNESS, Fitness & Health, HOME, Organizing, View All Fitness Stories, View All Home Stories /by Editor

Designed in Vancouver, the CLUG is an easy and elegant way to store bikes.

INEXPENSIVE & AWESOME | If this isn’t a fabulous idea, I don’t know what is: a practically invisible clip that you can attach to almost any surface to store your bike in a space-saving position. Use the stylish CLUG—it’s a blend of the words clip and hug—“to keep your place tidy and display your ride without damaging it or your walls,” say the trio of industrial designers (with a Fuseproject connection) at Vancouver-based Hurdler Studios. They are currently crowd-funding on Kickstarter in an effort to speed their clever product to market. Read more

Electric Is The Best Way To Brush

May 9, 2014/0 Comments/in Fitness & Health, HEALTH, View All Health Stories /by Editor

If you are a lackluster brusher, a high-powered electric toothbrush will make a huge difference in the state of your mouth.

MONEY WELL SPENT | If you think listening to someone talk about watching paint dry is snooze, try concentrating while a pal waxes on about brushing his or her teeth.

So you know I would never bring up ongoing tooth care unless I had something interesting to report. Last week, during a routine appointment with my dental hygienist, she confessed to having trouble cleaning my teeth. “I’ve looked for plaque everywhere, and I can find just the tiniest speck on a single tooth,” she said. “Mouths like yours could put me out of business.” Read more

A Novel Way To Stay Awake While Driving

May 1, 2014/1 Comment/in Fitness & Health, HEALTH, HOW-TO KNOW-HOW, View All Health Stories, View All How-To Stories, Well Being /by Editor

There are plenty of strategies to help you stay awake while driving. Here’s a highly effective one you may not have thought about.

TRAVEL ADVISORY | Recently a number of Canadian newspapers reported the results of a new online survey from a national insurance company confirming that an “alarming number” of people (30 percent of male respondents and 14 percent of female ones) admitted to nodding off while driving (CLICK HERE for the story).

Yikes! With road trip season in full swing, vacationers are going to need to reach deep into their bag of tricks to make sure they stay awake when driving long distances. To the roster of obvious ways to maintain alertness—starting out rested; ingesting caffeine (coffee, Red Bull, No-Doz); blasting yourself with cold air, intense conversation or loud music—we would like to offer a not so obvious solution, an inexpensive food item that has worked shockingly well to revive every driver we know who has tried it. Read more

Walk Therapy: How To Log Maximum Miles Every Month

February 1, 2014/0 Comments/in Exercise, FITNESS, Fitness & Health, HOW-TO KNOW-HOW, THE LATEST, View All Fitness Stories, View All How-To Stories /by Editor

There’s no question that walking is good for you. Here’s a trick to make sure you keep moving.

FIT FOR FREE | Last month, I walked from Vancouver in Canada to Bellingham in Washington and then back to Vancouver again. After that I walked from Vancouver to Hope. I didn’t actually visit either of these lovely towns—I walked the equivalent distance, 316 kilometres (196 miles), in and around my own neck of the woods. Read more

When To Go Organic & When Not To Bother

January 27, 2014/2 Comments/in FOOD, Food & Drink, HEALTH, Nutrition, SAVE MONEY, View All Food Stories, View All Health Stories /by Editor

The experts at Licious Living share their list of the “cleanest” and “dirtiest” fruits and veggies in your supermarket.

GOOD TO KNOW | “Should I buy organic or is it just a waste of my money? I get this question a lot,” says Deanna Embury, who, with co-founder Katie Rodgers, operates Licious Living, a healthy eating company that supplies Vancouverites and Torontonians with super-tasty home-delivered meals plus operates wallet-friendly cafés in British Columbia and Alberta. Read more

Infused & Enthused: Zing Water Bottles!

September 17, 2013/0 Comments/in Diet, FITNESS, Fitness & Health, FOOD, HEALTH, Nutrition, View All Fitness Stories, View All Food Stories, View All Health Stories /by Editor

Zing Anything beverage infusers make the freshest fruit waters to go.

GOTTA GET THIS | While it has finally been proven once and for all that drinking multiple glasses of water daily truly does a body good (CLICK HERE and HERE for the evidence), staying sufficiently hydrated can be challenging. If, like me, you struggle to down even a few glassfuls every day, fruit-infused liquids are a godsend, particularly when they can be made in an instant and transported handily the way they can be with Zing Anything beverage infusers. Read more

No Really, Vinegar Is Great For Sunburn

September 3, 2013/7 Comments/in BEAUTY, Fitness & Health, HEALTH, Skin & Body Care, TRAVEL, View All Beauty Stories, View All Health Stories, View All Travel Stories /by Editor

Who would have thought that plain old vinegar would be the best thing to take the sting and colour out of sunburn?

THIS STUFF WORKS | If I were forced to go back to grade school in the coming days and then asked to write an essay about the coolest thing I learned on my time away from the classroom, I would definitely wax lyrical about how I discovered that common household vinegar is a rock solid remedy for sunburn. Read more

The Stick Can Ease Muscle Aches & Pains

June 19, 2013/1 Comment/in Exercise, FITNESS, Fitness & Health, HEALTH, View All Fitness Stories, View All Health Stories /by Editor

This little piece of equipment may not eliminate the need for professional massage, but it can help manage muscle pain.

MONEY WELL SPENT | If you workout routinely and experience soft tissue aches or muscle knots as a result, The Stick, a self-massaging tool used by gym rats and sports physios alike, could be your ticket to relief. Read more

Generic Over-The-Counter Drugs Are The Better Buy

February 16, 2013/44 Comments/in BUY THIS. MAKE THAT., Fitness & Health, HEALTH, Nutrition, SAVE MONEY, Well Being /by Editor

If you’re buying brand name over-the-counter meds instead of generic ones, nine times out of 10 you’re wasting money.

BEST BUY | When it comes to fashion and décor, I can be as big a brand snob as anyone, but it makes absolutely no sense to be a label slave where over-the-counter medications are concerned. Why chain yourself to a brand name “OTC” med when the no name equivalent is available at a seriously lower price? Read more

How To Use Baking Soda To Whiten Teeth

January 14, 2013/14 Comments/in BEAUTY, Beauty How-To, BUY THIS. MAKE THAT., Fitness & Health, HEALTH, View All Beauty Stories, View All Health Stories /by Editor

Baking soda will definitely whiten your teeth. Here’s how to use it properly.

CHEAP & EFFECTIVE | There’s no question that brushing with ordinary baking soda will remove surface stains from your teeth and contribute to a pearly white smile. Toothpaste manufacturers know this, which is why some of them have taken a page from 19th- and early 20th-century history books—when paste made from hydrogen peroxide combined with baking soda was a common agent for cleaning and destaining teeth—and included baking soda as an active ingredient in their product.

With baking soda’s proven track record, it’s no wonder people are curious about using it by itself as an inexpensive alternative to bleaching trays to whiten their teeth, though many worry that its abrasive properties will strip the enamel from their teeth. Read more

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