Health Articles

Mile-high heels can be hard on feet, knees, hips, lower back and spine – but the truth is, we women have a bad habit of sacrificing comfort for the sake of fashion.  Try these daily tips to keep the spring in your step:

1. Roll a tennis ball under the arch of your foot – up and down, side to side.  It will loosen the tightened and strained plantar fascia (arch tissue). 

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ChickChat TV is back with two new episodes that may make you a bit squeamish. We got women we met in the mall (and a few ChickAdvisor members who agreed to be on the show without knowing what we were going to ask them) to talk about their early experiences with Aunt Flow.

Watch the episode now

Check out a few pictures from our shoot!

All photos by: Marayna Dickinson

When the clocks "spring forward" on March 14th, don't be surprised if the robbed hour puts you in a funk. Twilight is only sexy in the movies, we know - not at 6am when the first birds of spring are supposed to be chirping and the rosy hint of dawn should be gracing the eastern horizon.

In the unseeming gloom you'll find it all too fitting that this time switch was first introduced during...

The woman facing you is a mess. A large red wine stain accents the folds of her gorgeous white blouse and she’s carrying her left shoe in her hand, the broken heel creating a metaphoric ‘thumbs-down’. The tissues in her other hand crumble as she uses them to wipe her nose for the hundredth time. Her expression reeks of nostalgic pain and you’re not sure if she’s about to burst out...

The Holidays for many means decorating, Christmas movies, and parties.  But it can also mean stretching yourself and your wallet too thin, stressful family get-togethers, and a few extra pounds.

So why is it that some women seem to sail through the holidays unscathed, while others wear the stress of the season on their sleeves?  Sometimes it’s not about whether or not you feel the...

To move effortlessly through the holiday season, maintaining your health into the New Year, my advice: indulge in your favourite holiday cookie, savour the perfection of a holiday feast and keep up your normal routine as much as possible.  To stay motivated here are 4 must haves for a healthy holiday season: 

Concord grape juice

Look deceptively glam sipping this deep purple juice from a...

After Mark Fast’s near disaster at London Fashion Week, you may be giving yourself another look in the mirror. The Canadian designer’s decision to feature models in his runway show sized 12-14, lead to controversy in the fashion world including one of Fast’s stylists quitting as his team scrambled to finish his design.

The three models, Hayley Morley, Laura Catterall, and Gwyneth Harrison,...

To vaccinate or not to vaccinate: that is The Question.

A rhetorical one until recently, because most of us had long made up our minds about immunizations one way or the other. Now the threat of H1N1 (aka human swine influenza, or swine flu) has reignited the debate, including here on ChickAdvisor.

How do we sort fact from fearmongering fiction? I must start with the disclosure that I have just...

I hereby declare the following topics taboo...

1. You're so old, why aren't you pregnant yet?
Thank you to the 3 relatives who said this to me this week alone. I realize in your world view I should have had 10 children by now (having started at 19, naturally) but I don't share your view that kids are the *only* calling for women or that you have to be younger than 25 before you start.

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Mood swings, uncomfortable cramps and eating everything that isn’t nailed down to your kitchen counter is just the beginning of what some women have to deal with once a month when “Aunt Flow” comes a knockin’!  But even though the PMS fog has lifted, you're still experiencing strange irregularities - scratching your head wondering “Hey, is that really normal??”

To break down...