Amla: Why you shouldn’t avoid it this winter
A healthy food, the Indian gooseberry or amla contains the highest amount of vitamin C among all fruits and vegetables. It is also an excellent detoxifying agent and helps to increase immunity. Amla, also known as the Indian gooseberry, may…
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Health workers 'should get more New Year Honours'
Health workers are less likely to get on the New Year Honours list than pop stars, politicians and athletes, analysis reveals Researchers said health workers didn’t get a proportionate number of awards They studied the types of people who have…
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Boy, one, suffers chemical burns after dousing himself in superglue
Boy, one, left unattended at nursery suffers third degree chemical burns after dousing himself in SUPERGLUE which reacted with the cotton in his clothes Torben Manners, from Brighton, reportedly left unsupervised at nursery in Brazil Was visiting his father’s family…
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Cancer: Adding this spice to your meals could offer hope in fighting against the disease
Cancer’s biggest risk is simply getting older with more than three-quarters of all people being diagnosed with cancer in the UK aged over 60. The reason is because cancer is a disease of genes. Over time, mistakes accumulate in the…
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Persistence of gut microbial strains in twins, living apart after cohabitating for decades
Your fingerprints stay the same all your life. But what about the “fingerprint” of microbial strains that are shared in the guts of childhood twins? Using a genomics strain-tracking bioinformatics tool developed at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, researchers…
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Best supplements for weight loss: Taking this supplement could help you lose weight
Weight loss will be on many people’s minds as the New Year rolls in. The NHS offers medically-approved tips for losing weight, such as not skipping breakfast, eating plenty of fruit and vegetables, moving more and using a smaller plate….
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Mother claims to have reversed her severe eczema by going vegan
Eczema-suffering mother, 36, claims going VEGAN healed her flaky skin ‘which was caused by powerful steroids and made her go into hiding’ Jennifer Pierce’s eczema flared up when she had her first child four years ago The 36-year-old stopped using…
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Here’s how brain balances pleasure, pain experiences
According to the study, published in the journal Neuron, different classes of nerve cells control positive and negative motivations. Researchers have discovered a brain circuit involved in dividing the labour to handle two opposing motivations for behaviour — pleasure and…
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Are your children sleeping enough? New blood test might hold the answer
A simple blood test could provide a reliable metric to tell if children are sleeping enough—which is also a marker for general health as sleep affects susceptibility to many diseases—according to new research published in Experimental Physiology this week. It…
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Teen perceptions about e-cigarette health risks vary by socioeconomics and personal demographics
Teenagers’ gender, sexual orientation, household income and their parents’ level of education are among factors that impact whether they believe that nicotine, toxins and other chemicals in e-cigarette and vaping products are harmful to their health, according to new research…
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