Many of us share sim­i­lar sen­ti­ments to­wards ac­ne break­outs and their frus­trat­ing na­ture. What makes them even worse is that they tend to leave un­want­ed scars on the face and oth­er vis­i­ble ar­eas of the body. For many of us who suf­fer from ac­ne, these scars are a con­stant re­minder of the painful and both­er­some ac­ne con­di­tion that of­ten­times af­fects our self-es­teem and con­fi­dence.

When I teach nu­tri­tion ed­u­ca­tion in schools, I al­ways start by ask­ing the stu­dents what foods they con­sid­er healthy. Chil­dren as young as in­fants can quick­ly rat­tle off a list of fruits and veg­eta­bles such as ba­nana, ap­ples, broc­coli, car­rots and cu­cum­ber. But when I speak with par­ents, I hear many talk about the strug­gles of get­ting their chil­dren to ac­tu­al­ly EAT these same fruits and veg­eta­bles. Here are a few tips to en­cour­age your chil­dren to eat a health­i­er di­et.

Do you ever ask your­self, can I ever get the physique that I’ve al­ways dreamed of? For many folks that is a mon­u­men­tal task that nev­er seems to be with­in their reach, re­gard­less of how hard they have tried. So the ques­tion is, “what are they do­ing wrong when it comes to their work­out rou­tine?”

The prostate is a wal­nut-sized gland lo­cat­ed be­tween the blad­der and the pe­nis that serves a role in sex­u­al re­pro­duc­tion. A ma­lig­nan­cy or can­cer is a dis­ease where cells in the body grow out of con­trol. A ma­lig­nan­cy that de­vel­ops from the tis­sues of the prostate gland is known as prostate can­cer and is one of the most com­mon can­cers and cause of death among men world­wide. Fac­tors that put males at risk of de­vel­op­ing this can­cer are age (>55-69 years of age), ge­net­ics (a fam­i­ly his­to­ry of prostate can­cer) and race (African an­ces­try). What makes this can­cer a silent killer is that, many men with it may nev­er de­vel­op symp­toms un­til ad­vanced dis­ease has set in.

Do you know what it is like to be con­stant­ly fear­ful of some­thing bad hap­pen­ing to you or some­one you care about; to feel like if a world of ill­ness is hap­pen­ing in­side of your body; or to be un­con­trol­lably ner­vous or ir­ri­ta­ble, with thoughts rac­ing so much that you just can­not get much sleep at night? Pro­longed anx­i­ety is no­body’s friend, and yet, it is the most com­mon men­tal health dis­or­der in many parts of the world, ri­valled on­ly by de­pres­sion. Al­though anx­ious­ness is a nor­mal emo­tion when fleet­ing, if it is ac­com­pa­nied by chron­ic stress, wor­ry and a gen­er­al de­cline in over­all health, the con­di­tion be­comes a men­tal health dis­or­der.

As a Book­sta­gram­mer one of the ques­tions I get asked the most is, “How do you find time to read so much?” The sec­ond ques­tion I get asked a lot —“Is read­ing your full-time job?”. Peo­ple are be­wil­dered and of­ten sur­prised that I read “so much” even while hold­ing down an in­tense man­age­r­i­al po­si­tion in my day­time job. So far, for the year I have read over 100 books—122 if you want to be spe­cif­ic. How do you find the time to not on­ly read but read “a lot”? Here is how:

Imag­ine not be­ing able to write a cheque or to read your child a bed­time sto­ry. Imag­ine hav­ing to say that your glass­es are bro­ken so that you can ask some­one to fill in a form for you. As the world ac­knowl­edged Dyslex­ia Aware­ness Day yes­ter­day, we reached out to the Dyslex­ia As­so­ci­a­tion to help fur­ther raise aware­ness. Here’s what they shared with us:

Re­la­tion­ship eti­quette is a re­al thing. Find out why you or your part­ner may be en­cour­ag­ing in­se­cu­ri­ty and ar­gu­ments in your re­la­tion­ship.

Kristy Ram­nar­ine grew up in Tabaquite, a co­coa vil­lage lo­cat­ed in Cen­tral Trinidad, which in­stilled in her a love for the out­doors and na­ture. Dur­ing her school­ing her love for the Eng­lish Lan­guage en­cour­aged her to write. Her ob­vi­ous ca­reer path was jour­nal­ism.

Mary Mar­cano is a wid­ow and a moth­er of five who is con­sid­ered to be a very re­source­ful and strong woman, par­tic­u­lar­ly in the face of to­day’s chang­ing world. As a woman with hands of com­pas­sion, deep faith and mer­cy, Mary (ap­pro­pri­ate­ly named) has been able to bring some light amidst the dark­ness for many im­pov­er­ished fam­i­lies.

Nneka Jones al­ways had an as­tound­ing love for colour and spe­cial at­ten­tion to de­tail. She ad­mits that the Trin­bag­on­ian cul­ture has al­ways been promi­nent through­out her artis­tic jour­ney. The artist was nev­er one to ac­cept medi­oc­rity, not on­ly in art, but al­so in her every­day life and has al­ways been will­ing to take on a chal­lenge. This led her to take the risk of leav­ing be­hind her fam­i­ly and friends to trav­el the world in pur­suit of both shar­ing and gain­ing ver­sa­tile ex­pe­ri­ences that would en­hance her artistry.

Arista Kat­wa­roo start­ed learn­ing mu­sic at the ten­der age of five at the Bharatiya Vidya Sansth­haan (BVS) found­ed by Sangee­taachaarya Ma­hakavi Pro­fes­sor Hari Shankar Adesh. She is an ini­ti­at­ed dis­ci­ple of Pro­fes­sor Adeshji.