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  • Cereals and cereal products are displayed for sale at a grocery store in Aylmer, Que., on Thursday, May 26, 2022. A new report that looks at the prevalence of marketing to children inside grocery stores and restaurants suggests regulation is needed to help reduce exposing kids to unhealthy foods.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick

    Report calls for restricting marketing to kids in grocery stores, restaurants

    A new report that looks at the prevalence of marketing to children inside grocery stores and restaurants suggests regulation is needed to help reduce unhealthy food temptations.

Human Interest

  • Five-year-old Olly Sardelic is seen amongst her drawings in Toronto on March 21, 2023.

    Toronto family showcases 5-year-old daughter's artwork on World Down Syndrome Day

    A dozen hand-drawn, and sometimes abstract, pieces of art are on display in west-end Toronto. The gallery debut is a major upgrade for the artist -- whose usual canvases include her parent’s hallways and refrigerator.

Elaine Chin

Elaine Chin, MD, MBA (U of Toronto)

North American trailblazer of Precision Medicine, founder of Executive Health Centre, a premiere personalized medicine practice in Canada and Innovation Health Group, offering virtual health testing, consultation services, enterprise and well programs. She is the former Chief Wellness Office at TELUS Communications. Presently, she is an expert contributor to CP24 and consultant at Good Housekeeping Magazine in New York. She is the author of a 2015 top-ten book “Lifelines – unlocking the secret of your telomeres for a longer, healthier life” and a 2021 book, “Welcome Back! How to reboot your physical and mental well-being for a post-pandemic world”, cited as a Top 10 Wellness Book by Indigo Books. At the start of the pandemic, Dr. Chin launched the Masking Together Challenge and has helped to raise close to $500,000 so far to secure safe housing for house staff, support research at the University of Toronto and distribute masks and offer her newest book, WELCOME BACK for frontline healthcare workers in Canada. Dr. Chin’s mission is to make personalized medicine accessible to all and help people of all ages bring their physical and mental health into harmony.