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How to live longer
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How to live longer

Want to live longer and avoid disease? Dietician and exercise physiologist Caitlin Reid reveals the lifestyle factors that have been proven to add years to your life. Exercise with enthusiasm Pushing yourself a bit harder during your exercise session can add four years to your life. Research in 2008 found that people who exercised at […]
Food alternatives for food allergies
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Food alternatives for food allergies

The bad news is there are twice as many people suffering from food allergies than there were ten years ago. The good news is that food manufacturers are catering for these numbers and there are many more alternatives on the market for food allergy sufferers to consume. The bad news is that they are not […]
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Vitamin D vs cancer

If you need a good reason to get your daily dose of Vitamin D — then nothing beats this! Here’s a good reason to get a daily dose of at least 1,000 IU of vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol): it lowers your risk of developing certain cancers, notably colon, breast and ovarian cancer, by up to 50 […]
How to cook beetroot
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Why beetroot really can’t be beat

According to the Oxford Companion to Food, when introduced in the 17th century to Britain, the red beet was described as ‘the most excellent and delicate salad’. This humble root vegetable is now making its way out of traditional recipe books and onto the menus of the hippest restaurants in town. And with interesting new […]
red wine
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Drink to your health

There has been a lot of research and news on wine and health over the years. Overall, drinking small amounts (1-2 glasses of wine) most days appears to offer health benefits for those people who choose to drink. Researchers are always careful to add however, that alcohol affects people in different ways and consumption patterns […]
Sleep apnoea
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Sleep apnoea

Marion Weatherburn says she was “just so debilitatingly tired” and growing more and more tired seemingly every day. Although there were obvious reasons for her fatigue (running a household with a husband and two children and working), one day about eight years ago, she knew “it wasn’t right or normal tiredness”. “Then I actually fell […]