Could your lifestyle choices be causing you to look older than you actually are? There are numerous things people regularly do which are causing their body, and their face, to age quicker than it needs to. Visible ageing on the outside goes hand in hand with ageing on the inside, but you can’t see that […]
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Is your regular fix of carbonated drinks really worth risking your bones? If you’ve experienced a broken bone you know you won’t want another one, and are unlikely to want to increase your chances of having another. There are 2 things in fizzy drinks that are bad for bones – phosphoric acid and caffeine. So
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It’s funny that the countries that generally have a high intake of calcium, via lots of animal protein and diary, have the biggest problem of osteoporosis too. Why is that? To answer that we have to have a look at how the body works. Your body’s pH is tightly controlled; it is ever so slightly
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Brilliant news! You have more control over your wrinkles than you thought, and it doesn’t involve spending a fortune on the latest anti-wrinkle cream 🙂 There is a natural process that happens in your body where glucose (simple sugar in your blood) combines with protein. This process is called glycosylation and is relevant to wrinkles.
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If you eat a lot of sugar, &/or foods that are converted to sugar, you may be increasing your chances of getting cancer, because there’s a link between sugar and cancer. If you already have cancer you may be speeding up its progression by continuing to eat sugar. This is another good reason to get your
The treatments on offer from conventional medicine for established cancer are pretty horrific in most cases. Angelina Jolie’s case makes if very evident that even preventative measures can be awful. It doesn’t bear thinking what she must have gone through to come to that decision and then go through with it. But is there a
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If you regularly get diarrhoea (or are just loose), abdomen pain, bloating and a lot of wind, you might think you’ve got IBS (irritable bowel syndrome). If you haven’t already excluded it, you might have lactose intolerance. It’s well worth looking into this if you think you have IBS as it could quickly end your
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People who like their steaks, pork chops and bacon suggest that meat and fats can’t cause health problems as humans have been hunter gatherers since the dawn of time. Accepting that this might be true and ignoring the fact that most of us don’t hunt any more (at great energy and exercise expense) there is usually another
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Do you feel tired or do you keep picking up bugs (the cold and flu sort)? Iron deficiency is the most common deficiency in Western societies and its consequences include lack of energy and reduced immunity. In the late 70s researchers looking for a way to increase iron uptake came up with the, some might
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Just 36 hours without caffeine and I thought I was seriously ill! When I took the plunge to see what I would feel like without caffeine I found myself practically disabled with the worst headache of my life. That’s when it dawned on me that perhaps caffeine wasn’t good for me… AND it was obvious
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