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• Doctor's advice on Trumpcare v Obamacare: 'Don't get sick!'

  14-03-2017 23:57 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The new Republican healthcare plan viewed from three perspectives.
  
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• 11 'Healthy' Foods Nutritionists Never Eat

  14-03-2017 23:24
  
  And why you should skip them, too.
  
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• 5 Basic Rules You Need To Follow If You’re Trying To Erase Belly Fat

  14-03-2017 23:23
  
  Your genes might play a role.
  
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• 5 Things You Need To Know About ‘Natural’ Plastic Surgery

  14-03-2017 22:50
  
  Transferring fat from your stomach to your butt might sound amazing—but is it, really?
  
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• 3 Easy Ways To Fill In Your Eyebrows

  14-03-2017 22:36
  A bold brow is just minutes away.
  
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• 7 Reasons You Haven't Been Able To Lose 10 Pounds

  14-03-2017 22:05
  
  You might not be eating enough fat.
  
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• GPs are failing to diagnose patients with early dementia

  14-03-2017 21:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  GPs are failing to diagnose patients with early dementia despite a major Government drive to improve detection rates, research by University College London shows today.
  
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• Probiotics only work for people with atrocious diets

  14-03-2017 21:24 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers in Australia found an extra dose of 'good bacteria' - like Lactobacillus found in yogurt - had a transformative effect on rats with poor diets, but the opposite in healthy rats.
  
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• Priory hospital in Roehampton declared unsafe

  14-03-2017 20:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The private facility in south west London, used by a range of celebrities, was ordered to make urgent improvements, with inspectors rating the safety of care as 'inadequate'.
  
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• Tracy Anderson Talks About Her Body Image Struggles and Offers Advice for Teens in New Book

  14-03-2017 20:13
  
  This article originally appeared on People.com. Tracy Anderson has used her fitness expertise to shape some of Hollywood’s most notable bodies — including Jennifer Lopez and Gwyneth Paltrow — and now she’s using her research and experience to help teenage girls embrace their own bodies and get healthy in a positive way.“After spending almost 20 focused years helping people find comfort in their own skin, I saw a huge preventative opportunity
  
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• Extreme challenges help people escape their problems

  14-03-2017 20:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Extreme and painful adventure challenges help office workers deal with the impact of a sedentary lifestyle, according to new research from Cardiff University.
  
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• Close cancer loophole now to save children’s lives | Letters

  14-03-2017 19:41
  
  Children and young people are being denied the latest cancer treatments by outdated European regulations. Pharmaceutical companies are able to use a loophole in EU legislation to avoid trialling cancer drugs in children – despite evidence that these treatments could work. An analysis of European Medicines Agency data by the Institute of Cancer Research shows that since 2012, the loophole has been enacted to prevent 33 new cancer drugs from being evaluated in children. There is evidence tha
  
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• A Woman Reacts To Steak And A Blow Job Day

  14-03-2017 19:41
  
  “What I want to know is who are all these people clamoring for a blow job after eating a steak?”
  
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• This Yoga Routine Will Reverse A Day’s Worth Of Standing On Your Feet

  14-03-2017 19:37
  
  Say goodbye to lower back pain.
  
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• What nutritionists eat when craving something sweet

  14-03-2017 18:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  When hunger pangs strike, it may seem irresistible to grab a chocolate bar, or dip into that cake Karen left in the office kitchen. We spoke to eight nutritionists who revealed their go-to sweet treat.
  
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• The Best Face Masks For Your Skin, According To Dermatologists

  14-03-2017 18:31
  
  Bonus: They're all super cheap.
  
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• Are skinny jeans really harmful?

  14-03-2017 18:17 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Chiropractors are warning that some fashion items can be bad for us but experts have rejected the idea.
  
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• Can A Vitamin Deficiency Cause Depression?

  14-03-2017 18:15
  
  One reality star says it triggered months of suffering for her.
  
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• 'I Stopped Eating Dessert For 2 Weeks—Here's What Happened'

  14-03-2017 18:05
  
  It didn’t go quite as planned.
  
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• This Woman's Photo Shows What It's Really Like To Live With Extreme PMS

  14-03-2017 17:47
  
  Cramps are the least of it.
  
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• Mental health hospital declared unsafe in damning report

  14-03-2017 17:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The private facility in south west London, used by a range of celebrities, was ordered to make urgent improvements, with inspectors rating the safety of care as 'inadequate'.
  
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• Why the sex YOU'RE having is painful 

  14-03-2017 17:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  It is supposed to be the ultimate experience, but, for many women, sex can be painful. Here, a consultant gynaecologist at Birmingham City Hospital's details the most common causes.
  
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• Most people will hurt others if told to do so by authority

  14-03-2017 17:23 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Poland have recreated the famous 1961 Milgram experiments to show that people follow orders even if they harm others.
  
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• CDC: Don't donate sperm in 3 Florida counties due to Zika

  14-03-2017 17:23 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The guidance had previously applied to Miami-Dade County, the only place in Florida where there's evidence the virus was spread by mosquitoes.
  
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• Men's diet affects their sperm quality, study finds

  14-03-2017 17:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Spanish researchers found diets rich in omega-3 fatty acids, zinc and vitamin D produced the most fertile sperm. While high levels of vitamin E, vitamin C, selenium and folate also helped.
  
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• Why Donald Trump should play even more golf | Patrick Barkham

  14-03-2017 16:48
  
  There’s a furore over how much he’s played in his first few weeks as president. But evidence shows that being outdoors could be the best way for him to stay calm and saneScrolling through Twitter last night, I wondered why I felt so well. Not smug, just mystified by a mental and physical glow that made me strangely impervious to the toxic aspects of social media. Related: Warning: living in a city could seriously damage your health | Florence WilliamsContinue reading...
  
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• Republicans call kicking millions off their healthcare 'freedom'? That's perverse | Adam Gaffney

  14-03-2017 16:38
  
  Trumpcare does nothing but serve the rich at the expense of the poor and the sick. This is no freedom – it is a form of oppressionPaul Ryan is promoting Trumpcare as if it were some sort of medical Magna Carta – a brave declaration of healthcare freedom. “We’re not going to make an American do what they don’t want to do. You get it [healthcare] if you want it. That’s freedom” he recently said on Face the Nation. Freedom to die uninsured, that is.
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• Common teams up with Big Pharma for HIV/AIDS campaign

  14-03-2017 16:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Rap star Common has spoken to Daily Mail Online about why he has teamed up with a pharmaceutical company in a campaign to end preventable blindness.
  
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• Girls 'too poor' to buy sanitary protection missing school

  14-03-2017 16:30 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A school teacher in Leeds contacted a charity which normally provides sanitary pads to girls in Kenya.
  
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• Eating cheese everyday WON'T give you heart disease

  14-03-2017 16:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Despite being high in saturated fat, consuming large amounts of cheese is safe and may help to reduce bad cholesterol levels, researchers from University College Dublin found.
  
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• How Gwyneth Made Cupping, Juice Cleanses, And Vaginal Steaming A Thing

  14-03-2017 15:56
  
  She says she trusts her gut.
  
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• The Sneakers This 2 Broke Girls Star Swears By

  14-03-2017 15:50
  
  Plus, how she went from sedentary sugar lover to healthy-lifestyle poster child.
  
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• Thomas Orchard death: police cleared of manslaughter

  14-03-2017 15:41
  
  Sergeant and two detention officers found not guilty over death of Orchard after he was restrained at Exeter police stationThree Devon and Cornwall police staff have been cleared by a jury at Bristol crown court of the manslaughter of a man with mental health issues who collapsed while in custody after a heavy webbing belt was placed around his face.Thomas Orchard suffered a cardiac arrest and brain damage after the belt was held across his face for more than five minutes. Related: 'He was reall
  
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• E-cigarettes are NOT a gateway to smoking

  14-03-2017 15:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from Buffalo and Michigan universities highlighted several shortfalls in previous studies that appear to show a link between e-cigarettes and traditional tobacco products.
  
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• 11 Things We Wish Guys Knew About Orgasms

  14-03-2017 15:26
  
  For all the bros who need to know.
  
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• If we hide our mental health issues, we make it easier for society to ignore us | Clare Allan

  14-03-2017 15:00
  
  The invisible nature of mental health problems underlies the discrimination many people face – and makes it easier to cut their benefitsPeople with mental health issues are being expected to “prove it” as never before. Whether, as individuals, being assessed for disability benefits or, collectively, campaigning for services and adequate welfare provision, the pressure to demonstrate genuine need, to prove that one is “really disabled”, to quote the Tory MP George Fr
  
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• M&S launches mental health drop-ins as part of Ruby Wax project

  14-03-2017 14:56
  
  Retailer to host fortnightly ‘Frazzled Cafes’ in 11 stores at which people can share their stories
  Marks & Spencer is to host mental health drop-ins in its store cafes as part of an initiative designed to soothe stressed shoppers.The Frazzled Cafe project is fronted by the comedian and mental health campaigner Ruby Wax. The fortnightly sessions, which will be hosted by trained volunteers in restaurants that have closed for the day, will initially be held in 11 stores with more lo
  
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• Does quantum theory explain human consciousness?

  14-03-2017 14:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Sir Roger Penrose, an Oxford University professor, has created a chess puzzle to prove the human mind can never be matched by a computer because it exhibits quantum effects.
  
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• This One Thing Completely Changed The Way My Partner And I Have Sex

  14-03-2017 14:30
  
  It’s 10 times better now!
  
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• 'Inadequate' celebrity mental health clinic ordered to improve

  14-03-2017 14:30
  
  Regulator concerned for safety of patients at risk of suicide or self-harm at Priory hospital, which treated stars including Amy WinehouseA private mental healthcare clinic that treated celebrity patients such as Lily Allen, Johnny Depp and Amy Winehouse has been ordered to make improvements amid concerns for the safety of patients at risk of suicide or self-harm.The Priory hospital is based in a Grade II-listed building in Roehampton, south-west London. Related: Child deaths in Priory hospitals
  
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• Extreme exercise an 'escape from life', Cardiff Uni says

  14-03-2017 14:06 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Extreme adventure challenges can help office workers deal with the "anxieties of modern life," research suggests.
  
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• 'He was really really let down': Thomas Orchard's family speak out

  14-03-2017 13:51
  
  Family of man with mental illness who died after being restrained in custody say situation was ‘clearly a medical crisis, not a criminal one’The ordeal began for Thomas Orchard’s mother, Alison, as she strolled beside a river in Devon in October 2012. She took a call from her son’s social worker saying he had missed an appointment for a mental health assessment. Related: Thomas Orchard death: police cleared of manslaughterContinue reading...
  
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• Study finds internet filters won't protect kids from porn

  14-03-2017 13:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from Oxford University found almost one in four teenagers with internet restrictions at home have had a bad experience nonetheless (stock image).
  
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• 'Lots of nurses have already left': EU workers head for exit

  14-03-2017 13:26
  
  How is the prospect of Brexit affecting different sectors? We asked you whether many EU workers were leaving or had plans to leave. Here are your stories
  Since news of the UK’s looming departure from the European Union hit, lots of industries have spoken out about fears of losing European workers. On Monday academics from Oxford University said staff would go if they were not reassured about their future. It comes amid news that EU citizens working in the NHS are thinking of leaving in the
  
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• Buzzing our brains with electricity could boost memory

  14-03-2017 13:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at Imperial College London found that electrocuting the brain gave a performance boost to memory processes used when remembering names at a party or telephone numbers.
  
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• Trampoline park emergency calls revealed

  14-03-2017 13:18 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Broken backs and broken legs were among the injuries reported at trampoline parks last year.
  
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• Disabled people are confronting the spectre of social death | Jane Campbell

  14-03-2017 13:00
  
  Superficially the UK leads the world on disability rights, but colossal cuts are undermining the progress made over the last few decadesOn Monday, disabled representatives from disability organisations across England, Scotland and Wales presented reports to the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Geneva. It is now eight years since the UK ratified the UNCRPD with cross-party support and this is the committee’s first full examination of the UK’s performance.So h
  
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• Antidepressants can stop prostate cancer from spreading

  14-03-2017 12:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The brain protein which cuts levels of 'happy hormones', was blocked by a drug similar to antidepressants, Washington State University researchers found.
  
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• Do you fancy nettle bubble and squeak?

  14-03-2017 12:42 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall on the benefits of eating weeds and nettles
  
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• Is your makeup adding YEARS to your face?

  14-03-2017 11:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  According to the top beauty gurus in the business, applying your foundation, blusher and concealer incorrectly can add decades to your looks.
  
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