How To Boost Your Calcium As You Age

Milk is one of the best sources of dietary calcium but it turns out that most of us don’t get enough in our diets. It is a particularity important nutrient when it comes to bone health. Our bones are compared to a calcium bank. As you eat food that contains calcium, that calcium is stored in this bank. This bank then donates calcium to your blood to make sure your blood levels always remain within the normal range. If your body does not get enough calcium from food, you can lose calcium from your bones.

How To Dress The Petite Frame For Summer

Summer is here and the temperature is rising; is your wardrobe ready? It’s time to take those dresses and shorts out of storage and reexamine: What can you get rid of? What’s no longer figure flattering? What are the season’s must-have pieces?

How To Increase Your Metabolism

Here are some tips that could help to increase your metabolism.

How To Beat The Summer Cold With Food

There's nothing worse than coping with a summer cold. Summer colds have a way of ruining vacations and making you completely miserable. To beat the summer cold your best defense may be right on your dinner plate. You can strengthen your immune system's infection-fighting ability by eating a balanced diet, exercising regularly and getting enough rest.

How To Serve Healthy Food To Your Little Picky Eaters

Children can become picky eaters for a number of reasons. Some children are naturally more sensitive to taste, smell and texture. Other children develop picky eating habits by modeling their parents' fussy eating habits. Picky eating habits are more likely to develop when parents punish, bribe or reward their children's eating behaviors. Here are some tips to try with your picky eater.

How to Throw a Mid-Budget Stagette That Hits All the Marks

I'm not a stagette person. When I got married, I forwent the stagette, the shower, and the bridesmaids, which left me regrettably clueless when I was called upon to help with a girlfriend's stagette. My main issue?

How to Stay on Your Wedding Budget

How to Save on Your Wedding So You Can Splurge!

Rich Bride Poor Bride wedding planners Angelique Sobschak and David Connolly share their best tips on where to save when preparing for your wedding and where to splurge. Also check out their calls on the hottest trends in weddings in 2010.

How To Impress Your Man This Valentine's Day!

We all know what it’s like to have the men treat us well on the big romantic day every year. Why not try to impress him for a change? In my case, he deserves a bit of a treat.

How To Manage The New Mating Divide

Forget religion or race. The new dating and mating dilemma is interdietary romance. Can a meat-eater and a vegetarian or vegan have a happy and fulfilling long-term relationship? When you think about it, it makes perfect sense. We’re living in an era where a lot of people define themselves by what they will or will not eat. We celebrate or victories with food and soothe our sorrows with more food. There is food for every occasion.

How to Be a Real Party Mama

The bigger the better, from poufy hair to plumped -up lips, you are the grand dame of the party. Sure, the party may not be for you, but it is certainly about your taste and your child (okay, so by extension it sort of is about you). So clip the "Bumpit" into your barnet and toss out the LBD, this occasion calls for big-time glamour.

How To Get Outfitted For Running Gear

As someone who is new to the sport of running, I found it can be a time-consuming daunting task trying to decipher between running belts (or fuel belts), what running shoe I should buy, clothing, running bras, etc.

The hottest fashion trend: Eyeglasses

Hey Four-Eyes! All those years of high school mockery might actually be paying off. These days, eyeglass-wearers are the coolest kids in class. Those cumbersome specs many of us used to do anything to hide have become the ultimate accessory — and the bigger, the better.

How to Wear Guy-liner

From guy-liner to man-scara: More guys are wearing makeup―and not just rock stars.

How To Not Be An Annoying Guy

Who wants to be "that guy?" You know the one: That guy everybody avoids because he's so annoying.

How To Kick-Start a Flagging Sex Life

Is "I'm too tired" the new "I've got a headache?" Today's average couple is always on the go and busy, and it could be getting in the way of good sex.

How To Understand Relationships Between Women

What would life be like without the girlfriends who have been there all along? Family is one thing, but friends are very important in their own special way.

How To Plan Ahead for a Haircut

Itching to update your locks? Plan ahead before you get anything lopped off.

How To Decipher Your Teen's Behaviour

Why do humans in this pimply, lovesick stage of development insist on doing the very things we explicitly forbid them to do? The obvious answer: Because they're biologically programmed to do so.

How To Get Control in Your Wardrobe

For figure-fixing innovation, we give thanks to Spanx, the first of the new generation of girls'-best-friend undergarments, a brand-name that is now used as freely as Kleenex or Band-Aid to describe underclothes that shape, support and smooth the figure. Finally, wise retailers are putting similar materials right into their clothing.

Laid Off and Laid Back

A good friend of mine once said, when life gives you lemons, add vodka. I wholeheartedly agree, which is why I’m kind of thankful for my recent influx of free time. I’m determined to make my layoff a positive step in my career and, ultimately, my life. Coming off a ten-year career, this is the first time since high school that I’ve been unemployed.

How to Meditate

Multitasking shreds my brain into thousands of splinters. By 5 pm (or 6, or 7, or whenever I actually stop working), my mind is an endless cycle of unrelated things: tomorrow’s to-do list, tonight’s dinner, an outfit for an important meeting next week, the best gift for a friend’s birthday, whether The L Word’s Shane and Jenny are a good couple, and that embarrassing thing that happened in high school 10 years ago.

How To Change Up Your Style

On Style Her Famous, fashion-challenged women get the celebrity makeover of a lifetime. Participant Lucia Wamala shares what she learned from her Jada Pinkett Smith-inspired treatment.

How to Determine Your Wedding Budget

Expenses are part and parcel of a wedding: you can’t have one without the other. What you can do, however, is budget yourself accordingly so that the end result won’t come as a complete surprise or totally overwhelm you.

How to Avoid Hidden Wedding Costs

Some couples get so caught up in their wedding planning that they forget to look at the big picture, or rather the small print. Your vendors might have come highly recommended, and you might be impressed by what they can offer, but—and this is a big but—there might be a good reason why the small print at the end of your contract is so small.

How to Have a Multicultural Wedding

For some couples, paying homage to their cultural backgrounds is of utmost importance. Here’s a list of various cultural traditions from around the world.

Have a Spa Day at Home

All right everyone, Spring is here and it’s time to freshen up. Shedding those extra layers of winter clothing is a real relief—until you notice the state your poor bod is in after a season of heavy layers and grooming neglect. Well, it’s almost skirt and sandal season, so most of us are thinking about getting pretty again. Here are some easy tips for a home spa day.

How to Choose for Your Wedding Registry

Make a list of the items you and your fiancé(e) have. Which of these items will you be keeping and bringing into your new home and which will be sent to recycling or to your local charity?

How to Choose Your Officiant

Selecting your officiant is like choosing a fine wine: it takes time and a lot of consideration. Remember this is the person who will be overseeing your nuptials. It’s important to pick someone who’ll take your needs into consideration.

How to Manage a Wedding Budget

Setting a budget is paramount to ensuring a stress-free beginning to your wedded bliss. This budget checklist has been designed to help you determine some of the expenses that can come into play, which can add thousands of dollars to your wedding.

How to Transform Your Wardrobe

Confucius said, “They must change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.” I always liked that Confucius. So clever. And he’s right – if you’re in a wardrobe rut, it can lead to the humdrums like you wouldn’t believe. If your clothes supply is in need of revitalization and you’re not exactly a Rockefeller, you’re going to need some help – and sooner will serve you better than later.

How to Feel Great After a Split

My first job was as a receptionist at a big broadcaster. One of the most impressive women at the company was the head of the legal department. She was in her 40s, fitter than I was, and extremely confident.

How To Look And Feel Great In 6 Weeks

I recently spoke with author and fitness trainer Maureen Hagan about her new book, Goodlife Fitness: 6 Weeks to a New Body. Maureen has great advice for those who are new to a fitness plan as well as those who are in good shape but are looking to make some lifestyle changes.

How to Choose a Cologne: Part 2

Part 2: At 34, I feel like I might be growing up a little. Loyal to sneakers, blue jeans, and T-shirts all my life, it might be time to transition to more “manly” characteristics. I’m thinking more expensive sneakers, blue jeans, and T-shirts, switching from a Velcro to a leather wallet, and the BIG one: choosing a cologne.

How to Choose a Cologne: Part 1

At 34, I feel like I might be growing up a little. Loyal to sneakers, blue jeans, and T-shirts all my life, it might be time to transition to more “manly” characteristics. I’m thinking more expensive sneakers, blue jeans, and T-shirts, switching from a Velcro to a leather wallet, and the BIG one: choosing a cologne.

How to Dress the Part on Valentine's Day

How To Add Some Spice to Your Valentine's Day

How To Find the Perfect Chocolate

Beyond Red Roses: How To Make An Impression This Valentine's Day

You Get What You Give for Valentine's Day

How to Survive Your Own Reality Show

How to Wear the Best Retro

Survive Fame: An Interview with MG

"I am not changed by the fame like others," says MG. To find out what has changed for the Project Runway Canada finalist since her appearance on the program, check out this post-show interview.

Survive Fame: An Interview with Lucian

Reflecting on his time as a finalist on Project Runway Canada and the status that it brought, Lucian says that he "would never allow something so illusory like fame change [him]." That's not to say he hasn't enjoyed the benefits. Read his post-show interview to find out what he's been up to.

Survive Fame: An Interview with Carlie Wong

"When they scream and run toward me, I have no choice but to acknowledge it," says Carlie Wong of her fans. Find out how things are going for this Project Runway Canada finalist in this revealing post-show interview.

Survive Fame: An Interview with Biddell

Project Runway Canada winner Evan Biddell shares his insights on life after the show, his bright future, and what he really thinks of fame.

How To Quit Your Job The Right Way

Leaving a job doesn’t always happen when you’re disgruntled or upset. You might be in a job you love and working for people you admire. Whatever the reason for your departure, a smart employee has her future always on her mind.

How to Get a Raise

Ask for more money and get it. Here’s what to do to ensure you get what you deserve.

How to Pretend You’re Famous

There are several perks to being famous: you get to date hotties, you get loads of free stuff even though you’re already stinking rich, and people generally care about the things that you do, even if they’re not interesting at all.

How to Be a Bad Dinner Guest

If you’re famous for showing up tardy and empty-handed to dinner parties, you’re well on your way to becoming a bad guest. Here are some foolproof ways to maintain mediocrity when it comes to attending formal dinners thrown by your family and friends, with additional notes from The Jane Austen Handbook by Margaret C. Sullivan, Manners by Kate Spade, and HGTV.ca.