Here are this week's reading diversions for your personal enlightenment. Have a great weekend, and a Happy and Safe Halloween on Monday!
Lynn Crawford's Cider Glazed Pork Chops Recipe
If you want to get creative for dinner, why not try an alternative meat. Pork chops dressed with apples is delicious combination for fall.
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4 Secrets To Never Getting Sick
Common wisdom has it that staying indoors, where it's warm and toasty, is easier on your immune system than being outside in the cold. Problem is, being inside puts you in close constant contact with other people -- and their germs.
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Coffee May Keep World's Most Common Cancer At Bay, New Research Shows
New research presented at an American Association for Cancer Research conference suggests daily joe consumption may help reduce the risk of basal cell carcinoma, the world's most common cancer.
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Marlo Thomas: Jokes For Your Next Mammogram
Many women (myself included) find it easier to go to the appointment with a friend. About ten years ago my best (and very funny) friend and I decided to make an annual date of it. And we've kept to that plan. We block out the afternoon, head off to the lab together, then huddle next to each other in our paper gowns -- all the while cracking jokes about those freezing machines that will soon be "embracing" us (even though embracing is a very kind word for what actually feels like a train wreck across your chest).
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1. Myth: Only women with a family history of breast cancer are at risk.
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Halloween Safety Tips from Safe Kids Canada | iVillage.ca
Halloween means that there will be more children out on the streets. Drivers need to take extra care.
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Male Breast Cancer: Limited Awareness Costs Lives, New Study Says
Men have a breast cancer incidence rate less than 1 percent of that of females, but when they do get the disease, it is often more advanced, according to a sweeping new study.
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Mark Changizi, Ph.D.: Explained: Why We Get 'Pruney' Fingers
Our fingers and toes get pruney when wet. It happens to even the smoothest among us. And it happens to each of us in roughly the same way. There are wildly different ways wrinkles could occur on a surface, but pruney fingers have a particular look. Mine in this link illustrates the pruney signature.
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Diwali In Canada: How To Celebrate The Festival Of Lights This Weekend
The festival is so large -- and is celebrated on an annual basis by so many people around the world -- some even believe Diwali should be the next mainstream holiday for North Americans
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Darell Hammond: If We Don't Let Our Children Play, Who Will Be the Next Steve Jobs?
The forecast doesn't look good. In an era of parental paranoia, lawsuit mania and testing frenzy, we are failing to inspire our children's curiosity, creativity, and imagination. We are denying them opportunities to tinker, discover, and explore -- in short, to play.
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Aspirin every day can cut cancer risk: British scientists find first proof of preventative effect | Mail Online
Taking aspirin regularly can cut the long-term risk of cancer, according to the first major study of its kind.
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Halloween is celebrated in Canada on or around October 31. It is a day to mark the single night in the year when, according to old Celtic beliefs, spirits and the dead can cross over into the world of the living. Some people hold parties and children may trick-or-treat in their neighborhood.
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