How breakfast jam was used to scare the enemy The amazing health benefits of bilberries Find out how this fermented remedy can cure your horse! My Dad likes to tell an unusual story about my grandma’s visit to a department store in the ’80s… While on the escalator between floors, she was startled by the sight of a woman descending on an opposite escalator. She waved at the woman, and the woman waved back. ‘Ooooh,’ she said, ‘I think I…
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A shocking fact about ‘toxic home syndrome’ Could this be a hidden reason for poor sleep, breathing problems, depression and pain? Seven plants that clean the air in your home It’s cold and rainy. And the Christmas holidays are coming up. Which means that most of us will be spending a lot of time at home in December. But what if your home makes you ill? It’s something a lot of people don’t consider – yet it could be the…
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The truth is out at last, make sure you listen Discover the body’s secret mechanism for keeping you alive Find out why this ‘absolute health rule’ is not what it is cracked up to be Despite the assertion of my dear wife that I spent my days in English Literature lessons merely reading Just William, I did do proper English as well. For instance I vividly recall a line from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge…
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Discover the health benefits of good sleep Why should you have a dark experience every night? Find out the five secrets of restful sleep Every so often we all struggle to get to sleep. It’s usually because we are fretting about something, or we may have overdone the rich food and wine at a party. But for some night time is a series of short naps and long periods of tossing and turning, watching the clock slowly tick through the…
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How a hot dog can kill off dangerous bugs Why scientists get my goat How the nation’s favourite food could keep your brain alive! The Health and Safety folk would have had a field day if they’d seen me last night… There’s a park at the end of our road that’s used a lot by the local community… picnics, kick arounds, sunbathing (on the 3 days of summer we get)… you name it, it happens. And yesterday being bonfire night,…
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Aspirin; safe cure or health risk… Discuss! How a misprint put the worlds healthy at risk The way forward… according to Ray Over the past few months there has been a lot of discussion within medical research circles about the potential benefits of aspirin being over stated. Maybe the advice that we should all be taking it to avoid a heart attack might not be based upon flawed data. Despite several claims that small doses of this inexpensive drug can…
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