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• Real Women Share What Body Positivity Means to Them in Our #WhatIModel Campaign

  16-02-2017 23:47
  
  "Every body, every age, every beautiful": That's the tagline for this year’s Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue, which features the most inclusive cast of models yet—from 63-year-old bombshell Christie Brinkley to powerful athletes like Simone Biles and Serena Williams. Here at Health, we are all for celebrating body diversity and positivity, which is why we've teamed up with SI and the Instagram community @WomenIRL (which are also owned by our parent company,
  
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• ‘How I Fought Period Cravings And Lost A Pound In One Week’

  16-02-2017 23:34
  
  One woman explains how her struggle with PCOS is impacting her weight loss and how she’s fighting back.
  
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• 5 Types of Period Cramps That Could Signal A Serious Problem

  16-02-2017 23:28
  
  Don’t write these off as just a bad bout of PMS.
  
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• Why Gwyneth Paltrow's advice to take iodine is dangerous

  16-02-2017 23:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Health experts have slammed Gwyneth Paltrow's advice to take iodine supplements. Her suggestion stems from an interview with a 'medical medium' who gets his information from ghosts.
  
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• House vote paves the way for states to defund Planned Parenthood

  16-02-2017 22:51
  
  Approved resolution will let states withhold federal family-planning funds from the healthcare provider, as Republicans push forward an anti-abortion agenda The House on Thursday approved a resolution that would permit states to withhold federal family-planning funds from affiliates of Planned Parenthood and other healthcare providers that offer abortions. Abortion foes immediately hailed the measure, which is expected to pass the Senate, as a critical victory, while public health advocates worr
  
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• How to Stop Fat-Shaming Yourself

  16-02-2017 22:41
  
  I hate my cellulite. That cookie is going straight to my hips. You might think it’s no biggie to go low on your looks now and then, but words like these eat away at your confidence and self-worth. “Fat-talk comments are like Velcro; they stick to you, and they can start to become your identity,” says Cynthia Bulik, PhD, professor of eating disorders and nutrition at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. Put a sock in it: The first step is to identify your body-ba
  
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• Are YOU fit enough for your age?

  16-02-2017 22:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  To a certain extent, our strength and stamina can boil down to genetics. However, there are certain heights we should all be able to reach. Here, personal trainer Max Zeumer explains...
  
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• The Best Way To Dress A Bubble Butt

  16-02-2017 21:13
  
  How to rock all that junk inside your trunk.
  
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• Scanner that detects strokes in minutes could save lives

  16-02-2017 20:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The new device, created by scientists at the West Virginia University could be deployed in ambulances, by paramedics, at hospital bedsides and on the battlefield.
  
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• Portable brain-scanning helmet could be future for rapid brain injury assessments

  16-02-2017 20:00
  
  Stroke victims and those felled by head injuries on the sports pitch or battlefield could benefit from a new wearable scanner currently being tested A transportable brain-scanning helmet that could be used for rapid brain injury assessments of stroke victims and those felled on the sports pitch or battlefield is being tested by US scientists.The wearable device, known as the PET helmet, is a miniaturised version of the hospital positron emission tomography (PET) scanner, a doughnut-shaped machin
  
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• Doctors use virtual reality to prepare children for scans

  16-02-2017 19:53 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Doctors have started using virtual reality to help kids overcome their fear of MRI scanners in hospitals.
  
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• Leaflet says Tory win in Copeland will 'cost mums their children'

  16-02-2017 19:43
  
  Handwritten letter from local mum urging Labour vote contains dire warnings about closure of local maternity servicesA graphic Labour pamphlet warns voters in Copeland that a Tory victory in the by-election will “cost mums their children” in an open letter aimed at highlighting the risks of NHS cuts in the constituency. The handwritten letter in support of Labour candidate Gillian Troughton, a St John ambulance driver and former hospital doctor, is from local mother Paula Townsley. T
  
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• Celebrities causing a surge in plastic surgery

  16-02-2017 19:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  New mothers are making up around half of all plastic surgery clients for tummy tucks because of the pressure from celebrities, a surgeon from Imperial College, London, claims.
  
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• Unhappily married? You’re not alone | Virginia Ironside

  16-02-2017 19:15
  
  As an agony aunt I’ve heard all sorts about couples. But this doesn’t make it any easier to judge whether Tini Owens’s loneliness should be grounds for divorceThe marriage between Tini Owens and her multimillionaire mushroom farmer husband, Hugh, doesn’t sound like one that most of us would relish. She tried to divorce him last year, but was told by a judge that she couldn’t, because they hadn’t lived apart for five years. Now she has asked the court of appeal
  
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• Plastic surgeons reveal the perfect pout 

  16-02-2017 19:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A new study conducted by plastic surgeons at the University of California, Irvine, has revealed what women consider to be the perfect dimensions for attractive lips.
  
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• Hate fish? Revealed, 3 ways to make it more palatable

  16-02-2017 19:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  EXCLUSIVE: Using a blow torch before serving oily fish will seal flavours and lead to less odour, advises award-winning chef Kelan McMichael from the Bull & Ram, Belfast.
  
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• Map shows where people are hypochondriacs

  16-02-2017 19:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A new study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has revealed where where medical providers consistently order more tests and treatments.
  
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• Watch This Guy Explain To His Ex Why He Cheated On Her

  16-02-2017 19:01
  
  “You were my best friend.”
  
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• Robots could be injected into the body to fight cancer

  16-02-2017 19:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from Philips Innovative Technologies in Hamburg have created an army of microscopic robots that can move their limbs independently thanks to their tiny magnetic screws.
  
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• Celebrities are causing a surge in plastic surgery

  16-02-2017 18:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  New mothers are making up around half of all plastic surgery clients for tummy tucks because of the pressure from celebrities, a surgeon from Imperial College, London, claims.
  
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• ‘The ONE Thing That Helped Me Figure Out Why I Was Gaining Weight On A Vegan Diet’

  16-02-2017 18:35
  
  Is it possible to eat too much healthy food?
  
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• Dental therapists could be allowed to do tooth extractions

  16-02-2017 18:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Several states are considering bills that would create a new midlevel position in dentistry called dental therapist who perform routine procedures such as pulling teeth.
  
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• Survival rates for preterm babies improving in the US

  16-02-2017 17:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A study of 4,500 babies between 2000 and 2011 showed a small but significant drop in fatalities for babies born between 23 and 37 weeks gestation.
  
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• You Have To See These Amazing Breast Cancer Survivors Walk Topless At NY Fashion Week

  16-02-2017 17:44
  
  Absolutely stunning.
  
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• 9 Women Share How Fitness Helps Them Fight Their Chronic Illnesses

  16-02-2017 17:28
  
  “My disease has taken plenty from me—but I won’t let it take my precious miles.”
  
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• This Routine Got My Skin Tons Of Compliments—Even When I Was Sick

  16-02-2017 17:17
  
  Just because you don’t feel well doesn’t mean you need to look it.
  
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• 10 Percent Of Women In Their 20s Have This Pee Problem—Do You?

  16-02-2017 16:30
  
  Luckily, it’s pretty easy to fix.
  
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• 'Skunk death' of peer's son investigated by NHS

  16-02-2017 16:25 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Lord Monson says his addicted son killed himself days after no hospital bed could be found.
  
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• Exactly How Emma Stone Got Fit For Her Role In 'La La Land'

  16-02-2017 16:19
  
  We got the inside scoop from her trainer.
  
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• Brain tumour causes woman to become obsessed with religion

  16-02-2017 15:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers, from the Hospital General Universitario Morales Meseguer in Murcia, found the 60-year-old woman had a glioblastoma multiforme - an aggressive form of brain tumour.
  
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• Schizophrenia patients could benefit from B vitamins

  16-02-2017 15:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  When taken alongside drugs, vitamin B supplements caused less hallucinations and delusions in sufferers of the mental disorder, Manchester University researchers found.
  
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• If you want grandchildren make sure you eat MEAT

  16-02-2017 15:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In a study on fruit flies, researchers from Monash University, Melbourne, found that a father's diet can massively impact their children's fertility by making their son's sperm less competitive.
  
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• 'I Spent More Than $50,000 On A Matchmaking Service—This Is What It Was Like’

  16-02-2017 14:57
  
  Inside the dating habits of the very, very rich.
  
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• Apology over 111 'computer' call

  16-02-2017 14:37 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The NHS says sorry to a Devon woman told "the computer is asking the questions" when she dialled the non-emergency service.
  
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• 'You can taste it in the air': your stories of life in polluted cities

  16-02-2017 13:15
  
  Readers shared their experiences of living in cities affected by air pollution – from the curse of the ‘Delhi chest’ in India’s capital to celebrating blue sky in Shanghai
  3 week old #airpollution filters frm cycling in Central #London - everyone should wear masks in #protest & tweet dirty filters! #cleanairnow pic.twitter.com/b34puftPGM Air Pollution effects. Location: Santiago, Metropolitan District, Chile. #InstaChile #minimalism #summer #mountains #Explorer #Trave
  
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• Air pollution may cause millions of premature births

  16-02-2017 13:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Pollution in south Asia has caused up to 1.6million premature births since 2010 as tiny pollutants get lodged in mothers' lungs, according to a new report from the Stockholm Environment Institute.
  
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• Seeing Brian overcome his stammer filled me with professional pride

  16-02-2017 12:54
  
  His biggest challenge was accepting his stammer. But after years of speech therapy, Brian was able to speak in front of his peers
  The first thing I noticed was his mum: the concerned way she looked at him as they entered my room and took their seats, the way she shifted uncomfortably when I, a speech and language therapist, asked Brian* if he knew why he was here, the way her shoulders tensed as I smiled expectantly at her teenage son.Then, as he attempted to answer, his whole body suddenly jerk
  
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• Oily fish twice a week could reverse junk food damage

  16-02-2017 12:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from Liverpool John Moores University found that mackerel, salmon and pilchards can all reverse the damage caused to the immune system by obesity.
  
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• Chefs reveal their ultimate cooking tips

  16-02-2017 12:21 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A Quora user asked: 'What do good cooks know yet others don't?' and chefs responded by sharing their top cooking tips, such as always having a sharp knife and using a high heat to add flavour.
  
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• Britons spend more on food and leisure, less on booze, smoking and drugs

  16-02-2017 12:03
  
  National survey suggests fall in number of smokers and rise in culture of eating out and recreational activitiesBritons are spending less on cigarettes, drugs and alcohol and more on eating out and hotels, according to the latest official snapshot of family spending.Weekly spending on booze, fags and narcotics fell below £12 for the first time since comparable records began in 2001-02, partly reflecting the decline in the number of people who smoke. Continue reading...
  
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• Black bones, gangrene and weeping: the unwelcome return of scurvy

  16-02-2017 11:59
  
  With cases of scurvy appearing in Sydney and Zimbabwe, Jonathan Lamb looks at the history of a disease that was once thought to belong to the pastWhen doctors and patients realised that scurvy had reappeared, in separate outbreaks in Zimbabwe and Sydney recently, they were stunned. “I couldn’t believe it,” Penelope Jackson, one of the Sydney victims, recalled, “I thought, ‘Hang on a minute, scurvy hasn’t been around for centuries’.”Shame followed,
  
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• Indian woman has 7cm growth on her face removed

  16-02-2017 11:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Noorkhi Bai, 32, from a remote village in Badwani district, India, first developed the growth three years ago, but it quickly spread to engulf her entire face.
  
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• Father, 47, who has hundreds of tumours across his body

  16-02-2017 11:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Believed to be suffering from neurofibromatosis, Shadot Hossain, from Shajadpur, Bangladesh, is in a race against time to secure surgery to remove the tumours - and save his sight.
  
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• 'Say the big words'

  16-02-2017 11:15 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Families describe the moment they shared the news that no-one wants to hear
  
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• Make-up so good it'll be like a facelift in a bottle

  16-02-2017 10:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  'Why spend over £10,000 on a facelift surgery when you can give yourself a DIY version in under 10 minutes and for around £100?' writes make-up artist LISA ELDRIDGE.
  
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• NHS spending thousands on drunks and malingerers

  16-02-2017 09:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The tragedy of the modern NHS is that the wartime generation, the one that defeated Hitler and never called an ambulance, is dying out and being replaced by the generation.
  
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• Where the wind blows: how China's dirty air becomes Hong Kong's problem

  16-02-2017 09:00
  
  Last month there were 300,000 doctor’s visits in Hong Kong linked to smog – much of which wafts over from mainland China. But in a busy town obsessed with money, will it take a direct economic hit to wake people to the danger?At the age of three, Margaux Giraudon developed something akin to a smoker’s cough. Thereafter, she became all too familiar with the inside of her doctor’s office in Hong Kong.For years, her father Nicolas Giraudon was told the same thing by doctors:
  
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• Countless women insist the pill causes them depression

  16-02-2017 08:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Mood swings have been cited for years as a possible side-effect, but many women complain that their experiences on hormonal contraceptives are dismissed by the medical profession.
  
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• Millions of premature births could be linked to air pollution, study finds

  16-02-2017 08:00
  
  Premature births across 183 countries may be associated with fine particulate matter, a common air pollutant, with Africa and Asia especially affectedAir pollution could be a contributing factor in millions of premature births around the world each year, a new report has found.Nearly 15 million babies are born annually before reaching 37 weeks gestation. Premature birth is the leading cause of death among children younger than five years old, and can cause lifelong learning disabilities, visual
  
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• Mental tricks that'll really make you nod off,

  16-02-2017 07:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Professor Jason Ellis, director of the Northumbria Centre for Sleep Research, reveals the ways you can switch off your brain and get back to sleep if you wake in the middle of the night.
  
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