The Montfort Hospital, Queensway Carleton Hospital and the Royal Ottawa Health Care Foundations today announced that the first annual BMO Financial Group Ottawa healthy Challenge raised more than $100,000 for their respective hospitals.
Like cheese rolling and greased-pig chasing, it was once a popular attraction at village fetes the length and breadth of Britain. But now an old fashioned pie-eating contest has become the latest casualty in the campaign for healthy eating
Mayor Michael Bloomberg and City Council Speaker Christine Quinn said the city will name a food policy czar, who is charged with raising the amount of healthy food sold in low-income neighborhoods.
Over time, inhaling environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) -- a process often called "passive smoking" -- can cause otherwise healthy adults to develop chronic respiratory symptoms.
by Lisa Harnack, Dr. P.H. How healthy are school lunches? With obesity and other nutrition-related problems at an all-time high among youth ? and memories of their own corn-dog-and-french-fries days stuck in their minds ? many parents fear school meals are nutritional wastelands.
