searchers discovered that couples whose shared income was higher overall had a lessened likelihood of splitting.Oh, and don’t skip the honeymoon: if you do that, your chances of splitting raise once more.Also, don’t get married too quickly, don’t elope, and invite a lot of people to the wedding.a triad that many people getting married in Canada today (the Wedding Bells trends survey listed the average age of a new bride at 31) may find difficult to achieve.It is, if you find yourself affected by statistics, deeply discouraging.What the study didn’t reflect, though, is the deeply sentimental significance that a wedding carries, particularly if you’re a woman (who, according to Emory, are at an even greater risk of divorce if they spend more on the wedding than their male counterparts).But McGill, whose own wedding was a two-person affair, says that while the Emory study was an interesting read, she doesn’t believe newly betrothed couples should consider the correlation over how much they, personally, can afford.she says of the study.Perhaps they were already overspending.We know that weddings are emotional events and you have to be prepared to compromise.But you should plan the party that you want.And if you have the budget to do it, you should.it’s not going to come cheap but there’s a point at which that, to her, doesn’t matter.I’ve been waiting for so long.The media makes this whole fantasy such a big deal.So for me, it’s my shining moment.It’s any woman’s shining moment.And you can’t put a price on that.What’s the best approach to burn fat?That’s a hot topic in our gym these days.Probably it’s a symptom of midwinter, with many of us looking forward to a warm-weather vacation in March that features beach time and swimsuits.the fat will simply melt away.But fat can be stubborn.Many variables exist in the interaction of calories, exercise and weight loss.As a general rule, burning 3,500 calories will result in the loss of a pound of fat.That requires a lot of exercising when you consider that moderate effort on the elliptical burns expends 400 calories an hour.and Greg Wells agrees.The author and University of Toronto exercise physiologist believes it’s inefficient to begin an exercise program without improving one’s diet.doing them together provides an exponential boost.Wells doesn’t particularly care what sort of exercise you do, because all of it burns calories.Wells says you should probably be doing both.And on top of that, work on cutting calorie-dense foods and increasing the amount of fruit and vegetables in your diet.You have to tackle your diet, too.Reduce your expectationsAmong Canada’s experts in the fight against fat is Dr.Robert Ross, an exercise physiologist cross-appointed to Queen’s University’s School of Medicine and Faculty of Health Sciences.because the results aren’t coming fast enough.Instead, Ross believes the best and most manageable way to get to a healthy weight is through a series of small, incremental changes.The really relevant question is whether you can sustain them.So what’s the most sustainable fat-burning approach?Opt for small, achievable goals.Feats you know you’re likely to achieve.Don’t vow to run a marathon if you’ve never run a 10k.Don’t opt for a vegetarian diet if you love your meat.Instead, go small scale.decreasing daily food intake by a relatively small 100 calories per day, and increasing daily exercise by 10 minutes a day.The two goals seem like a good place to start.gym for those bad at gymWant to lose weight?Be hungry, exercise like you want to die and stare at the bathroom scales till they define youTargeting major muscle groupsMedcan’s head trainer, Brendan Fox, wholeheartedly subscribes to Wells’ and Ross’s above approaches.But when a client comes in desperate to improve body composition in advance, say, of a Caribbean wedding, Fox is up to the challenge.To make the workout as time-efficient as possible, he’ll take a circuit approach that minimizes the need for rest breaks by pairing exercises that target different muscle groups.So he’ll start with a set of squats and once that’s complete, head right into a series of pull-ups.Next comes lunges alternating with push-ups, followed by inverted rows and bodyweight dips.As for my own take, I would suggest looking past the goal of fat-burning and encourage everyone to incorporate daily exercise and a healthy diet into their lifestyles for their own sakes.You’ll feel happier, sleep better, have more energy and, eventually, shed some pounds.and sustain your lifestyle changes over the long term.Shaun Francis is the executive chairman of the Medcan Clinic, a preventive health clinic in Toronto.The characters in Priscila Uppal’s new short story collection, Cover Before Striking, have an odd approach to life.a white wedding dress and a black dress of mourning.Chances are the bride will need both.Magdala’s mother tells her daughter.My mamma did the same for me, she wore both of these.especially where weddings are concerned.It’s a culture’s way of saying you’re next.has women furiously attempting to remove stains from clothing, symbolizing a traditional way of life, as if there’s something shameful about those stains.In contrast with these traditions is the living force of nightmare, unsanctioned but real.Magdala tries to remove stains from the shirts of her husband Tonio, dying from an unspecified illness, but Tonio’s priority is to free himself from dreams that torment him.Wants to tell her how it feels not to breathe anymore.and Cover Before Striking is a feast of the grotesque.a gardener who has always dealt with fruits and vegetables (because, among other things, they’re more useful than flowers) decides to grow lilacs for a change.But the lilacs literally attack her with their petals out of some obscure anger.Is the hostility of these flowers because the lilacs are traditional emblems of innocence and purity and the female gardener, who has cheated on her husband, is far from innocent and pure?O