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If you knew Monica Teixeira in high school, you might be surprised to hear she’s a fitness champion. As the 23-year-old tells it, she was a “little chubster” back then. That all changed when she went to university, where a group of friends hooked h...

How many women stay in unhappy relationships hoping the other person will change? How many women escape from one nightmare only to find themselves reliving the experience in their next relationship? Rosana Vickers is offering a helping hand to women ...

Asthma sufferers visited the Emergency Department at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital more than 2,000 times last year. It needn’t be so. According to asthma charity Open Airways, each of those visits signals an asthma management plan that has faile...

Ron Lucas was scuba diving 12 days after he completed treatment for his prostate cancer. He’d endured 42 CT scans and one bone scan. Then came the 39 sessions of focused beam radiation therapy, which left him 15lbs lighter. “I had a fairly advanced d...

After years of working herself to the bone, Arianna Huffington finally had a wake-up call in 2007. She was getting little sleep and exhausted from working 18 hour days, seven days a week. It took a nasty fall, which broke her cheekbone and resulted i...

Marilyn Allers is a mother-of-two — and in the best shape of her life. Her fitness secret? Pole dancing. The 32-year-old caught onto the fun fitness trend a few years ago. Hamilton lingerie store Secrets was then hosting a female-only event with a...

Ahmani Peets is on the honour roll at Whitney Institute Middle School; among family members his prowess at Wii is legendary. He’s also autistic. As a young child he survived on a handful of items: cranberry sauce, water, apple juice, bread and macar...

Hollywood screenwriter James Hart knew he was on to a good thing when he got his invite to BIFF this year. It gave him an opportunity to research something close to his heart — how Bermuda is coping with its lionfish problem. The New York resident’s ...

Jonathan Marshall-Symonds is finally mobile — and has the public to thank for it. His mother asked for help after the teenager, who was born with cerebral palsy, outgrew the family car and was confined to his home. The family was inundated with suppo...

I’m going to die, just like my mother did. That’s what Ronda Lewis thought the moment she heard she had breast cancer. “I immediately had a throwback moment, because I was just 38 years old,” said Ms Lewis. “My mother, Lynette Trott, died from breast...