Canadians like to snack. According to a recent Ipsos Reid survey, 84 per cent of us are regular snackers.

That’s not necessarily a bad thing. Noshing between meals boosts lagging energy levels, quells hunger and food cravings, and provides nutrients missing from meals. A small snack of fruit, nuts, yogurt or an energy bar will help tide you over until the next meal.

If you forget to tuck an apple or granola bar in your bag, there’s always a coffee shop, pizza place or juice bar to get something to go.

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India is in the midst of a catastrophic epidemic of smoking-related deaths that will soon claim more than one million lives annually, according to groundbreaking new research.

“India is competing with China in this macabre Olympics of who has the most tobacco deaths in the world,” according to Prabhat Jha of the Centre for Global Health Research at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto, the lead researcher.

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