Here are this weekend's read­ing diver­sions for your enlight­en­ment. Wish­ing you a very Happy Canada Day Long Weekend!

Ban­ish Bad Breath | Lifescript.com

Every­one suf­fers from bad breath occa­sion­ally. Per­haps you ate too much gar­lic or spices for lunch, or maybe you were unable to brush your teeth the night before.

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How to Grow Greener Grass — Helptionary!

The first thing to do is to assess your lawn. Walk around it to see if there are any bare areas that need to be patched up. This can be done by buy­ing grass from or seedlings from a nearby gar­den, and using these to grow new grass in the prob­lem area. If you notice any areas that have an uneven sur­face, you might have to reap­ply the top­soil and plant new grass

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Sit­ting Too Long Raises Death Risk

The death risk was even higher for peo­ple who don't work out. The least active women in the study who also reported the high­est amount of sit­ting were 94 per­cent more likely to die than those who said they sat the least and exer­cised the most. For men, it was 48 per­cent, the study said

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5 (Caffeine-Free) Snacks To Fight Fatigue

Mid­day snacks should con­tain about 100 calo­ries or 15 grams of car­bo­hy­drates. The nat­ural sweet­ness in fruit takes longer to metab­o­lize than the processed sug­ars you'll find in candy. And the pro­tein in peanut but­ter pro­vides a long-lasting form of energy.

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Cof­fee: The Great­est Addic­tion Ever (VIDEO)

Cof­fee lovers and full-blown addicts alike will enjoy this video, which is pretty much every­thing you ever wanted to know about cof­fee, but were afraid to ask

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"Lean gene" ups risk of heart dis­ease and dia­betes - Yahoo! News

Being slim may not always lead to a lower risk of heart dis­ease and dia­betes, sci­en­tists said Sun­day after they iden­ti­fied a gene linked both to hav­ing a lean body and to a higher risk of meta­bolic diseases.

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Diet Soda Linked To Weight Gain

A study pre­sented at a Amer­i­can Dia­betes Asso­ci­a­tion meet­ing this week shows that drink­ing diet soda is asso­ci­ated with a wider waist in humans. And a sec­ond study shows that aspar­tame — the arti­fi­cial sweet­ener in diet soda — actu­ally raises blood sugar in mice prone to diabetes

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Why Do We Get Wrin­kled Fin­ger­tips? Mys­tery Solved, Say Scientists

The answer, accord­ing to evo­lu­tion­ary biol­o­gist Mark Changizi, is all about “grip.” Changizi and his team of researchers at 2AI Labs, believe that water wrin­kles are essen­tially treads — just like the ones that show up on our car tires — that have been genet­i­cally selected for over time

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Metal Head Baby Loves Pan­tera (VIDEO)

Pan­tera baby was born metal, man. He's been head­bang­ing and throw­ing up the sign of the horns since the womb. No really, check his ultra­sound photos.

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Canada Day 2011 — When is Canada Day 2011

Canada Day is cel­e­brated on July 1st across the coun­try. July 1st marks the anniver­sary of the for­ma­tion of the union of the British North Amer­ica provinces in a fed­er­a­tion under the name of Canada — that's the tech­ni­cal expla­na­tion, but Canada Day also means fire­works and the year's biggest national party. The Canada Day hol­i­day is akin to the U.S. July 4th cel­e­bra­tion but on a more Cana­dian scale.

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5 Every­day Habits That Can Harm Your Memory

When think­ing about mem­ory, Aaron Nel­son, Ph.D., assis­tant pro­fes­sor at Har­vard Med­ical School and author of "The Har­vard Med­ical School Guide to Achiev­ing Opti­mal Mem­ory," says to look at it this way: when think­ing about brain health, every­thing you know about heart health applies. The things that are bad for your heart — high cho­les­terol and smok­ing, for exam­ple — are also bad for your brain.

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Endometrio­sis: When Painful Cramps aren't "Nor­mal" | iVillage.ca

Endometrio­sis is a lit­tle known dis­ease that affects an aston­ish­ing 176 mil­lion women world­wide.  The cause of endometrio­sis is still up for debate  and cur­rently there is no cure.

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The Sci­en­tist Who Drew Brains, and Then a Nobel Prize | Mind & Brain | DISCOVER Magazine

Anatomist San­ti­ago Ramon y Cajal was the first to see–and illustrate–what neu­rons really do. His exquis­itely detailed draw­ings changed our under­stand­ing of the brain and ner­vous sys­tem. Cajal relent­lessly pur­sued his micro­copic study of ani­mal tis­sues, lead­ing to an essen­tial dis­cov­ery: Brain sig­nals jump from cell to cell rather than flow through a con­tin­u­ous web of fibers, as was believed at the time.

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Helen Lamanna is Managing Director, and co-founder of AdvisorAnalyst.com. Read more from the author/contributor here.

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