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• Golf round worth a week of exercise

  28-05-2017 23:24 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The health benefits of golf are being overlooked – according to a leading cancer charity. Macmillan Cancer Support said that during a typical single round of golf, players walk for four to eight miles.
  
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• Lily Bailey on living with OCD: 'My brain was filled with weird, uncomfortable thoughts'

  28-05-2017 22:10
  
  Tired of people misunderstanding OCD, the UK model and writer decided to share her secret inner world. Here she answers 10 questions about the fourth most common mental illness1. Your extremely compelling book, Because We Are Bad, details your life with obsessive compulsive disorder. You are 23 now and your book gives the impression it has always been with you. But was there any starting point as such, and if so, what was it?
  I don’t remember ever not living with OCD. From as early as I ca
  
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• The world's most toxic town: the terrible legacy of Zambia's lead mines

  28-05-2017 21:00
  
  Almost a century of lead mining and smelting has poisoned generations of children in the Copperbelt town of Kabwe in ZambiaThe heavy legacy of lead in the world’s most toxic town – in pictures“I’d like to be a doctor,” says seven-year-old Martin, sitting quietly in his modest home in Kabwe, Zambia. But the truth is that Martin struggles with his schoolwork, and his dream seems unlikely to become a reality.
  Kabwe is the world’s most toxic town, according to pol
  
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• Breast cancer campaigner who raised £30k for charity dies

  28-05-2017 19:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Laura Plane (pictured) has been battling breast cancer since 2009. In that time she helped raise £30,000 for charity and made her cousin aware that she too had breast cancer.
  
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• Bigger wine glasses make us drink too much, says researcher

  28-05-2017 17:42
  
  Today’s glasses, 450ml compared with 65ml 300 years ago, encourage consumption, Cambridge scientist tells Hay festivalWine glasses have increased in size from a capacity of 65ml 300 years ago to 450ml today and the change has encouraged us to drink far more than we should, according to a behavioural scientist speaking at the Hay festival.
  Theresa Marteau, director of the behaviour and health research unit at Cambridge University, said her team had looked at 18th-century wine glasses at the
  
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• Spoon-fed babies more likely to be obese, says Swansea Uni

  28-05-2017 16:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Amy Brown, an associate professor at Swansea University, said youngsters who are given the opportunity to feed themselves are more likely to be adventurous as well as healthy eaters.
  
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• Sara Malm's bizarre exercise tools for summer fitness

  28-05-2017 14:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Need a self-rolling yoga mat, an aerobic coffee table or a satnav for swimming? Sara Malm digs out the wackiest ways to summer fitness.
  
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• Walk this way: how the brain recognises someone by their gait | Daniel Glaser

  28-05-2017 07:00
  
  Pippa Middleton walking up the aisle is a reminder of the special neuroscience behind seeing someone walkOnce again, all eyes were on Pippa Middleton as she walked up the aisle, this time at her own wedding. As she wrote in her book Celebrate: ‘It’s a bit startling to achieve global recognition… on account of your sister, your brother-in-law and your bottom.’It’s unlikely the biological aspect of how we watch people walking was foremost in her mind last week, but t
  
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• Research shows getting children outside is good for health

  28-05-2017 03:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Last week, a US study found that children who follow government advice on physical activity, screen time and sleep have an 89 per cent lower risk of being obese.
  
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• Hairy Bikers go veggie with new recipes

  28-05-2017 01:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  It’s safe to say that Si King and Dave Myers, the TV duo better known as The Hairy Bikers, are dedicated meat lovers. But now the pair have brought out a vegetarian cookbook.
  
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• Antidote for paracetemol overdoses: Drug could save hundreds of people

  28-05-2017 01:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A REVOLUTIONARY drug could save hundreds of people from paracetamol poisoning.
  
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