Here are some fantastic home cough and cold remedies Nan’s cure-all is vindicated Find out why a remedy involving a hat is my favourite With the wet and windy weather of late, and all the talk of further impending storms there isn’t much incentive to get out of bed. However, I can’t wait to be up and about because you, my dear readers, have made me laugh every single day. Last week I asked for some of your family heirloom…
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Even cavemen used their grannies remedies The magnificent seven…or not! Can you do better? There seems to be a few people suffering from old fashioned coughs around at the moment. It’s not an outbreak of a new variant of COVID or anything nasty…. it just seems to be the return of a normal winter cough. Whoever thought we might welcome something so familiar back! This outbreak had me searching in my resource centre (OK, the pile of yellowing newspaper clippings…
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How would you do in the health food quiz show? Discover why this survey might not be telling the truth Here’s why it is not too late to make a change for the good “Jeremy Paxman here with the University of Life versus the Maladjusted Malcontents School of Hard Knocks in the final round of our quiz, and here is your first question…” The suspense builds and… “…Why do we eat?” Not one of the questions you’d expect to hear…
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The latest shocking news about fish oils (I hate to say I told you so) The rancid supplement you think is healthy Why you cannot see or smell this problem Imagine this… You go to the fridge one morning to get milk for your tea or coffee. Off comes the cap and you give it a sniff. “UGH!” The milk smells horrible – quite clearly, it has gone off. What next? Would you drink it? No way. Similarly, if you…
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Do the numbers really add up to a good story? The real reason to indulge a passion for good food What can really turbo boost a healthy salad? Really! A perfectly cooked boiled egg is a culinary work of art. You can keep the five star, Michelin chef prepared fripperies that food critics salivate over. No piquant prawn and chorizo tower with saffron glaze and pea shoot foam can hold a candle to what I have before me right now….
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Why this classic old fashioned sweet is so bad for your health This herbal tea should have a health warning for its effect on your blood pressure Revealed, liquorice’s dark secret Lara loves going on Twitter. And I admit, she shows me some really interesting stuff from time to time. Just before Christmas there was a great ‘thread’ (AKA: string of Tweets) with a stark warning about the dangers of a classic type of sweet, which is also an ingredient…
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