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Fish Recipes

This spicy curry soup is packed with aromatics like onion, garlic, and ginger and scented with makrut lime leaves.

Quick Dinners

It’s a time to celebrate the fresh and seasonal. Discover six dishes that will help you savour a magical evening under the stars.

Summer

If you’ve lost your heart to the artichoke, you already know its flavour secrets. But the artichoke is also choke-full of healthy nutrients!

If you’ve lost your appetite for the same old ham and cheese or PB&J, try these amazing sandwich recipes from around the world.

5 Surprising Sandwich Recipes From Around the World | alive

Sandwiches

Let the following fall functional food recipes serve as creative inspiration as you cook up some of the best ingredients this season has to offer.

Recipes

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Life is about balance. We provide you with strategies for a lifelong commitment to strength and well-being in all areas of your life. 

Lifestyle

This refreshing noodle salad fit for a sultry summer night may become your new favourite way to luxuriate in watermelon.

Chicken Noodle Watermelon Salad

watermelon

Tuck into these hearty, warming spring salads to brighten up your day—and feel healthier to boot—and load up on the nutrition you need to live your best life.

Which new health and wellness trends are worth trying? Here's a handy natural health primer to help kick-start your New Year.

Natural Health A-Z: The Latest Trends, Research, and Essentials | alive

Trends

Natural is the way. We bring you credible approaches to preventative health, holistic treatments, and supportive supplements.

Health

Not getting the results you want despite working your butt off in the gym? Find out which fitness nutrition trends you should try (or skip) this year.

The Fitness Nutrition Trends You Should Actually Try in 2017 | alive

Healthy Eating

Fitness

The minds behind WellPreserved.ca and the new canning and preserving cookbook, Batch, share some recipes that will have you rushing out to buy Mason jars.

Canning and Preserving: 5 Pickled, Cured, or Fermented Recipes | alive

Fermented Foods

Skin Care

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Beauty

Mental stimulation, maintaining strong social networks, regular exercise, good quality sleep, a healthy diet, minimal alcohol consumption, and no smoking can help reduce the risk of cognitive decline with age.

Neuroplasticity

The annual incidence rate of childhood obesity in Canadian kids is at about 12 percent. And kids with obesity have an estimated fourfold risk of developing type 2 diabetes. The good news is that both conditions are very responsive to these simple diet and lifestyle modifications.

vegetables

Perch Tacos

Harvest Wild Rice Pilaf

Bean and Barley Stew with Pecorino

Rockfish and Mussels Thai-Style Curry Soup

Once Upon a Midsummer’s Night

It’s Time You Gave Your Heart to an Artichoke

What Lies Between

Fall’s Functional Foods

City Farmers Chat and Chew

8 Simple Ways to Transform Your Brain Health

Chicken and Veggie Parcel

Spicy African Peanut Stew

Gooey Cheese Fondue

Spiced Black Quinoa and Du Puy Lentil Pilaf with Cumin-Ginger Vinaigrette

Thai Inspired Chicken Noodle Watermelon Salad

Salads, Reimagined

Natural Health A-Z

Can’t-Miss Nutrition For 2017

Why Preserve?

Skin Care with a Conscience

What Neuroplasticity Means for Aging

Tipping the Scale on Kids’ Diabesity

The Healthiest and Unhealthiest Cities in the US

Better Than a Fairy Tale