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If you are a woman in her 20s or 30s, you may not have been all that concerned with the health of your heart.  Statistics show that there is a serious lack of understanding among women about the dangers of heart disease and stroke.  As we enter American Heart Month this February, however, there may be reason to start paying attention.  Here’s why:

Koalas have just had an exciting month!  Here in Australia, and all around the world, September brings both a change of season and the Australian Koala Foundation’s (AKF) Save the Koala Month!

Last week I visited the kind folks at the Greater Vancouver Food Bank and learnt some troubling facts about how many people are going hungry in our fine city. In fact, each week 25,000 Vancouverites visit the Food Bank and 10,000 of those are children. It’s shocking to me that without the Food Bank, each week 10,000 children would go hungry in a city as wealthy as ours.

“People don’t want to eat genetically modified foods, but don’t know why.”
Jeffrey Smith, July 16th 2009

On July 16th, 2009, Jeffrey Smith, Founding Director of the Institute for Responsible Technology, international bestselling author and leading spokesperson on the health dangers of Genetically Modified Organisms, gave a special presentation on the health dangers surrounding genetically modified foods at Nature’s Path Organic Food’s headquarters in Richmond, B.C.