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• Weight loss diet: Why you should BEWARE these three vegetables

  16-09-2017 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  WEIGHT loss usually involves increasing intake of fruit and vegetables, however sweet potato, tomatoes and spinach should be consumed with caution.
  
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• What Your Poop Says About The Best Way For You To Lose Weight

  16-09-2017 19:37
  It’s all about your bacteria.
  
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• Make Sure You're Not Eating While You Watch This Epically Gross Ear-Pimple Extraction Video

  16-09-2017 18:54
  It's a lot
  
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• Trump wants to bring jobs back. Fixing the opioid crisis is part of that task | Rakeen Mabud

  16-09-2017 17:40
  In a new paper, labour economist Alan Krueger finds that employment dropped in areas where more opioids are prescribed. Our so-called ‘jobs president’ must act
  By all accounts, we are living in a humanitarian and public health crisis. Deaths from prescription opioid overdose have quadrupled in the last 15 years, and data show that as of June 2017, the number of opioid deaths has surpassed the peak of the HIV/Aids crisis in 1995.Drug overdoses are now the leading cause of accidental d
  
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• On your bike! Why Britain needs to do more to get children cycling

  16-09-2017 12:00
  Learning to ride is a wonderful milestone for children and promotes good health in later life, but the UK is lagging behindStored away on my phone is a brief video showing the day, a few years ago, when my son first learned to ride a pedal bike – more precisely, the moment he gained sufficient confidence for me to stop hovering and record the historic event for posterity.Looking back at the footage, what struck me was the meandering route he plotted. But this wasn’t beginner’s
  
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• Make tracks: ride the world's newest cycling routes

  16-09-2017 12:00
  New paths for recreational cycling are springing up in the UK and around the globe, offering everything from scenic countryside tours to relaxed city ridesThe eight mile, family-friendly Brean Down Way in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, opened in July 2017 after 18 months of volunteer work and fundraising. It follows a newly-opened sluice-top road, crosses the River Axe, skirts a wetland nature reserve and mud flats, and takes in numerous cafes, before finishing at Brean Down Fort. Originally built
  
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• Heart failure warning: Taking THIS supplement could lower your risk

  16-09-2017 09:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  HEART failure can be deadly, but taking a daily vitamin D supplement could help lower your risk.
  
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• UK legal claims grow over exposure at work to toxic diesel fumes

  16-09-2017 08:30
  Unions warn effects of exposure to diesel pollution is ticking time bomb for business, likening situation to ‘early days of asbestos’Legal claims over exposure to diesel exhaust fumes at work are growing as unions warn toxic air in the workplace is a ticking time bomb on a par with asbestos.
  Royal Mail and at least one local authority are among major employers who are being sued over their alleged failure to protect staff from the damaging health effects of diesel pollution from vehi
  
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• Cancer news: Jodie Kidd blasts 'stiff British upper lip' to incurable illnesses

  16-09-2017 05:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  JODIE KIDD is supporting a new campaign to raise awareness of the importance of modern treatments for incurable cancer patients, by talking about the 'precious' time she spent with her sister-in-law Sandy who died earlier this year.
  
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• DR MAX THE MIND DOCTOR: Why we Britons are so depressed

  16-09-2017 03:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  This week DR MAX looks at why people in the UK are among the most depressed in the Western world. That is despite this country having a relatively high standard of living.
  
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• Beetroot, the superfood that boosts your muscles

  16-09-2017 02:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists at the University of Northumbria asked 30 men aged between 18 and 28, who work out at least twice a week, to do 100 intensive jump exercises.
  
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• What is the best 'diet clock' for you to lose weight

  16-09-2017 01:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  While more and more people are turning to intermittent fasting to lose weight, nutritionist Rob Hobson of Healthspan warns you need to choose the right numbers to fit in with your day-to-day life.
  
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• Hyperemesis gravidarum: 'It's crippling sickness'

  16-09-2017 01:10 via bbc.co.uk
  One sufferer of the pregnancy illness describes how difficult it made her daily life.
  
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• Drop in cancer deaths, new data shows

  16-09-2017 00:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Cancer deaths are down by 35 percent for children and 25 percent for adults in the US, new research from the American Association for Cancer Research.
  
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• The Story of the Hospital Staffers Who Took Photos of a Patient's Genitals Raises Questions About Privacy and Security

  16-09-2017 00:34
  
  [brightcove:2732874877001 default]Doctors and staff at a Pennsylvania hospital are under fire after what news reports described as a “ton” of employees crowded into an operating room to take cell-phone photos of a patient being treated for a foreign object lodged in his or her genitals, PennLive reported this week.University of Pittsburgh Medical Center’s Bedford Memorial Hospital has been cited by the state’s Department of Health for the incident, which took place l
  
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• How To Stay Fit When You're Injured

  16-09-2017 00:04
  Yes, it's possible.
  
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