In recent years, the language surrounding diet and health has become increasingly imprecise. Terms such as “plant-based,” “vegan,” and “whole foods” are often used interchangeably in public discussions, even though they refer to distinct dietary approaches with different underlying motivations. A wholefood mostly plant-based dietary pattern describes a way of eating in which vegetables, fruits, legumes, intact grains, nuts, and seeds form the nutritional foundation, while ultra-processed...

There is a particular kind of fatigue that rarely attracts public attention, even though it quietly shapes the health of families, the quality of partnerships, and the long-term well-being of women across Canada. It does not present dramatically, nor does it announce itself as a crisis; rather, it accumulates through weekly meal planning, careful grocery budgeting, medical scheduling, label reading, and the ongoing responsibility of thinking ahead for everyone else’s needs. Despite decades of...

Somewhere along the way, serious neurodevelopmental conditions became conversational shorthand. “We’re all somewhere on the spectrum.” “Everyone’s a little ADHD.” These lines are delivered casually, often with good intentions, as attempts to normalize difference. Yet they collapse clinically meaningful diagnoses into personality traits and, in doing so, blur the boundary between variation and impairment. Adult attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and autism spectrum disorder (ASD)...