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Now’s the time to get vigilant about heart health.

Heart disease is the number one killer of women in Canada. Prevent it, and live longer, with these seven expert tips.

When I was in Paris in September, I spent a considerable amount of time feeling some degree of defeat over not being able to fit my North American-bottom into European-size clothes. It's now a well-worn trope that "French women don't get fat," but contrary to the self-righteous proclamations of healthy living, what I actually observed was a fairly strict regiment of cigarettes and Diet Coke.

If heart attacks run in your family, it doesn’t mean you’re doomed to have one, too. A new study shows healthy eating could help change your fate — by altering your genes!

Wonderful, wonderful salt — which makes everything from french fries and chicken breasts to movie theatre popcorn and asparagus spears taste delicious — is an increasingly well-known impediment to optimum health. And according to U.S. government researchers, salt is particularly problematic when you're deficient in potassium.