Life

A Texas feedlot owner thinks a bill banning the use of antibiotics on animal farms would mean bad business for him and others in his industry.

My little diva has finally taken her first steps. Whoopee! Break out the video camera. Now, I really need to complete all the baby-proofing projects I’ve been putting off for months.

One in 100 black men and women develop heart failure before age 50, according to one of the first long-term studies to look at the life-threatening condition in younger adults.

A parent can no longer bark out an order to do a household chore and expect it to be completed.

Turn a bit red when you drink a mere half bottle of beer? If you’re of East Asian descent, consider that a warning: You may be at higher risk of alcohol-caused esophageal cancer.

Children grieve and mourn as deeply as adults.However, they will experience and express their grief differently from the grown-ups around them, depending on their cognitive and emotional development.

Fortune tellers say they can divine a person’s destiny by reading the lines in the palm of the hand. But when it comes to discerning the state of one’s health, turning the hand over is far more illuminating.

With job layoffs and shrinking investments, Canadians are being forced to accept that this recession is a reality. To save money, more consumers are likely going to cook most of their meals at home.

Missy Chase Lapine’s newest cookbook includes a chapter on holiday recipes, but in her kitchen, every day is April Fool’s Day.

• An informal survey of shoppers suggested Red Deer had earned its ranking as one of Canada’s two dozen most dangerous cities. The March 12 edition of Maclean’s ranked Red Deer the eighth-highest city for aggravated assaults and 23rd most dangerous city overall in Canada, based on 2006 per capita crime rates gathered by the Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics.