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Family 4-1-1: Summer grows couch potatoes

Family 4-1-1: Summer grows couch potatoes

My kids get a lot of free time in the summer, hanging around the house and yard, eating Popsicles and playing with the water hose. The lack of organized activities after 10 solid months of non-stop school and lessons is important, I think.
A posh picnic in the park

A posh picnic in the park

Peaches with your Puccini? Mojitos with Mozart? Brewskis and a hoagie may suffice for a run-of-the-mill picnic, but when the venue involves arias in the park or opera in the vineyards, picnickers yearn for slightly swankier fare.

How to eat well while camping

Camping and gourmet cooking: two pastimes that are seemingly mutually exclusive.

Another way TV is harmful to kids: By falling on them

Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON — The nation’s pediatricians keep saying that television can be harmful for babies and toddlers, but this time, they mean it literally.
Around town: Where food meets politics

Around town: Where food meets politics

If Matthew Stowe ever became Speaker of the House, chances are question period would become a whisper-quiet affair. British Columbia’s MLAs, like the rest of us, aren’t supposed to speak with their mouths full, after all.

Longboards more geared to hills than skate parks

The longboard, a recent arrival primarily reserved for high-speed downhill glides, is something lawmakers will soon likely have to deal with, says Vancouver Island’s chief medical health officer.
Family 411: Skateboarding gets the parental seal of approval

Family 411: Skateboarding gets the parental seal of approval

Tamara Lukie once went through 18 Band-Aids in one day after her two sons, Callym and Oscar, started skateboarding. But as far as Tamara is concerned, cuts, scrapes and bruises are just part of boyhood.
One in 10 use adults use smartphone during sex, survey finds

One in 10 use adults use smartphone during sex, survey finds

A study released this week gives a clear idea of just how much users can get attached to their devices.
Fish oil may be linked to prostate cancer risk: study

Fish oil may be linked to prostate cancer risk: study

SEATTLE — Taking fish-oil supplements or even eating too much fatty fish may be linked to an increased risk for prostate cancer, according to a new study from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle.
Author explores women, alcohol issues

Author explores women, alcohol issues

If you’ve ever accompanied a girlfriend to happy hour or a monthly book-club meeting, it’s hardly a secret, perhaps, that she can make a glass of chardonnay disappear before you can say “cocktail.