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Canadians can track how much salt they’re eating and identify the main sources of sodium in their diet using a new online Salt Calculator.

“Many Canadians think the biggest source of salt in their diet comes from a salt shaker, but that’s not the case - it’s the hidden sodium added during food production that’s the biggest culprit,” says Joanne Arcand, a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Nutritional Sciences at U of T, who helped develop the calculator. 

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People become more politically liberal immediately after practising a spiritual exercise such as meditation, researchers at the University of Toronto have found.

"There's great overlap between religious beliefs and political orientations," says one of the study authors, Jordan Peterson of U of T's Department of Psychology. "We found that religious individuals tend to be more conservative and spiritual people tend to be more liberal.

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In the dead of winter, mustering up the energy to get off the couch and play a game of pick-up hockey requires a bit of discipline.

But an estimated 500,000 middle-aged Canadian men regularly hit the ice for the love of the game, and perhaps, in the hopes of boosting their health and fitness.

While master’s student Zack Goodman agrees that being active should be a priority for everyone, his research into the unique characteristics of recreational hockey suggests that the game may actually pose health risks in this particular demographic of players.

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The Natural Science and Engineering Council of Canada (NSERC) has awarded U of T researchers a total of $7.3 million through its Strategic Network Grants (SNG) and Strategic Project Grants (SPG) programs. 

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Internet-connected eyeglasses and similar technologies will soon be on the market, but their benefits and dangers are little understood.

University of Toronto Engineering Professor Steve Mann hopes to change that at a groundbreaking conference at U of T in June 2013.