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• How to explain mass shootings to your children

  04-10-2017 23:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Explaining a tragedy to a child can be daunting, as parents try to decipher what a child has already heard about an event and how to go from there. Here, a mental health expert provides advice.
  
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• Forget toning your abs – exercise beefs up your brain

  04-10-2017 23:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A new study by the National Institutes of Health shows going on a regular jog grows brain connections. Lab mice experienced tangible changes after just a week of running.
  
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• Demi Lovato's Jiu-Jitsu trainer offers his top tips

  04-10-2017 23:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Demi Lovato just released her new album. Behind the scenes she is keeps fit with Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. Her trainer, World Champion Tarsis Humphreys, tells how the sport can change your life.
  
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• Dangers of drug Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock was taking

  04-10-2017 23:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Doctors warn it is highly unlikely - if not impossible - for diazepam to drive a person to shoot more than 500 people. But many agree that it can have risky adverse effects if the patient isn't monitored.
  
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• This Place Is Changing The Game When It Comes To Organic Food—Here's How

  04-10-2017 23:13
  It started off as an experiment, but turned in to so much more.
  
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• Meet The Nurse Who Rescued Victims During The Las Vegas Shooting

  04-10-2017 22:58
  "I just felt that I had to."
  
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• Picky eating could be GENETIC

  04-10-2017 22:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists have identified two genes associated with two different kinds of picky eaters. The University of Illinois researchers say that picky eating isn't solely caused by bad-parenting.
  
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• This 10-Minute Abs Routine Is Perfect For Days When You've Got No Time To Work Out

  04-10-2017 22:50
  No excuses.
  
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• ​This Is The Difference Between Every Type Of Eyeliner

  04-10-2017 22:41
  ​We asked a makeup artist to break it down.
  
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• We Asked A Doctor If Tampons Expire And Her Answer Kind Of Blew Our Minds

  04-10-2017 22:12
  Did you know they can get moldy?!
  
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• High blood pressure link to dementia: Warning for women in their forties with hypertension

  04-10-2017 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  WOMEN with high blood pressure in their forties are at greater risk of dementia, new research shows.
  
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• These 5 Meatloaf Recipes Are Perfect For When You're Trying To Eat Healthy

  04-10-2017 21:09
  We asked nutritionists for their fave recommendations.
  
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• Miley Cyrus Just Shared A Crazy New Detail About Her Love Story With Liam Hemsworth

  04-10-2017 20:47
  He literally couldn't escape her.
  
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• Mindfulness championed by Gwyneth Paltrow reduces stress

  04-10-2017 20:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the Max Planck Institute of Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Germany found mindfulness relieves tension by 51 per cent by boosting certain regions of the brain.
  
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• Pre-natal exposure to air pollution increases risk of ADHD

  04-10-2017 19:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Pollution and poverty combine to increase the likelihood that a child will have ADHD-related problems, a new study of New York City, New York mothers and children reveals.
  
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• Doctors removed 100 pieces of metal from a man's stomach

  04-10-2017 19:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  After a 52-year-old French man with psychosis repeatedly swallowed sharp objects, doctors had to remove them five times in five years. The objects included nails, knives, pins needles.
  
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• Deliver political leaflets to improve your health and the country | Letters

  04-10-2017 19:44
  Forget the gym, says Geoff Read – getting out and delivering leaflets for your local party has multiple health benefitsIn the final sentence about “voting with our feet” in her piece on “the miracle cure” (G2, 4 October), Sarah Boseley unwittingly offers a clue to a little noticed and highly unfashionable route to better health – active politics. But it must be with a local party that relies on volunteers to deliver leaflets at regular intervals. It is th
  
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• The true cost of sugar is more than its price | Letters

  04-10-2017 19:25
  Alison Tedstone of Public Health England says that the food industry must put any savings made from the falling price of sugar into research against its damaging effects on health. Michael Tribe says we must consider the impact of sugar prices on developing countriesIn response to your article (Beet that: sugar prices set to fall as EU quotas abolished, 29 September), whether sugar costs pennies or pounds, the food industry knows the government target – 20% – on how much of it they n
  
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• Angry doctors threaten to shut their doors to new patients

  04-10-2017 19:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The British Medical Association has written to Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt calling for a meeting to discuss the 'urgent challenges' facing GPs. These include rising indemnity costs.
  
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• If You Just Drank Way Too Much Coffee, Here's What You Should Do

  04-10-2017 19:02
  It's happened to all of us.
  
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• Malaysian teen boy has the dead foetus of his twin removed

  04-10-2017 19:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The patient, who remains anonymous, had been plagued with unbearable stomach pain and bloating since he was born. Surgeons at Sultan Abdul Halim Hospital in Sungai Petani found the foetus.
  
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• Front line America's war over abortion states ONE clinic

  04-10-2017 18:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  On Monday, a court in Missouri ruled that it would be allowed to move forward with opening three abortion clinics. For the other six states with only one clinic, the battle to stay open wages on.
  
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• Your Definitive Guide To Picking The Right Weights For Your Strength Workout

  04-10-2017 18:43
  We're breaking it down move by move.
  
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• Gabrielle Union Says She's Had '8 Or 9 Miscarriages' In Her Years-Long Struggle With Infertility

  04-10-2017 18:22
  She's opening up in her new book.
  
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• RCGP laments rise of people using Google to self-diagnose

  04-10-2017 18:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Professor Helen Stokes-Lampard, chair of the Royal College of GPs, said many patients are adamant they have an illness after consulting Google with their symptoms.
  
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• Everyone in London now breathes toxic air particles

  04-10-2017 18:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Research shows that every area of London exceeds the World Health Organisation's air quality guidelines for microscopic particles known as PM2.5.
  
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• Can A Chiropractor Really Help You Lose Weight?

  04-10-2017 18:08
  This 'Real Housewives' star swears by it, but does it actually work?
  
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• This Incredibly-Common Risk Factor Is Linked To A Whopping 40 Percent Of Cancers In The U.S.

  04-10-2017 17:53
  Here's what you need to know.
  
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• Dr Google won't see you now!

  04-10-2017 17:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Professor Helen Stokes-Lampard, chair of the Royal College of GPs, said many patients are adamant they have an illness after consulting Google with their symptoms.
  
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• 5 Snacks You Should Always Have On Hand If You're Trying To Lose Weight

  04-10-2017 17:31
  These portable eats will fend off the 3 p.m. munchies.
  
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• Malaysian boy, 15, has the DEAD FOETUS of his twin removed

  04-10-2017 17:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The patient, who remains anonymous, had been plagued with unbearable stomach pain and bloating since he was born. Surgeons at Sultan Abdul Halim Hospital in Sungai Petani found the foetus.
  
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• Which yoga should you do? Take this test to find out 

  04-10-2017 17:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Genny Wilkinson Priest teaches two different types of yoga in London. She has repurposed a classic personality test as a guide to which personalities suit which type of yoga.
  
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• Brain tumours: Pregnant mothers around THIS could be increasing kids’ risk of growths

  04-10-2017 16:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  PESTICIDES could encourage brain tumours to grow in children, a report claims.
  
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• England to consider optout organ donation

  04-10-2017 16:36 via bbc.co.uk
  Ministers announce plan to review system as figures show three people a day die waiting for transplants.
  
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• Your inherited fitness habits could lead to breast cancer

  04-10-2017 16:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Henry J. Thompson who works in the Cancer Prevention Laboratory at Colorado State University explains how your inherited fitness habits could lead to a breast cancer diagnosis.
  
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• Doctor SUES the FDA to get abortion pills sold in stores

  04-10-2017 16:23 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In a lawsuit filed against the FDA, Dr Graham Chelius said patients have to fly 300 miles to end a pregnancy as his coworkers refuse to stock the drug for abortions up to 10 weeks of pregnancy.
  
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• What is the new opt-out organ donor system?

  04-10-2017 16:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Figures estimate that around 6,500 patients are on the waiting list for an organ that could save their life. Last year 457 people died in England while waiting for a transplant, NHS data showed.
  
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• This Might Be The Best New Way To Treat Pain, Insomnia, And Anxiety

  04-10-2017 16:00
  Or is it too good to be true?
  
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• High-intensity workouts WON’T work for most people

  04-10-2017 15:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Professor Panteleimon Ekkekakis from Iowa State University says HIIT is not sustainable for majority of people and we only stick to an exercise routine if we make it an enjoyable part of our lives.
  
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• '13 Things I Learned While Staying At a Nudist Sex Resort For a Week'

  04-10-2017 15:51
  You'd think it'd be a wild week-long sex party— but you'd only be partially right.
  
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• Women with asthma are more likely to have pre-eclampsia

  04-10-2017 15:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the Karolinska Institute in Sweden also found the chronic lung condition raises the risk of women having a cesarean section, an underweight baby and a short pregnancy.
  
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• Laughing gas killed 8 people last year, figures show

  04-10-2017 15:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  EXCLUSIVE: The ONS data follows the death ofMiguel Fernandes, 19, from Egham, Surrey, in February, who was found dead with a plastic bag around his head after taking the drug.
  
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• Statins cut risk of infection that causes sepsis

  04-10-2017 15:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Research led by the Aalborg University Hospital in Denmark found long-term users had a 30% lower chance of getting of getting staph bacteria, linked to blood, lungs and heart infections.
  
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• Would YOU eat just one meal a day to lose weight?

  04-10-2017 15:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  According to Dr Xand Van Tulleken, fasting places a 'good stress' on the body that leads to fat burning, however, the British Dietetic Association warns followers of the plan should expect to feel hungry.
  
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• My 14-year battle to study with a complex mental health issue

  04-10-2017 14:04
  I’ve been to psychiatric hospital 12 times and had to give up on a number of courses – but now I’ve got my eye on a PhD Colin Evans was 20 when he was diagnosed with schizophrenia. He was doing his first degree at the time – chemistry at the University of Leeds – and had an acute psychotic episode during a night out that saw him end up in a mental health unit at hospital.During the 14 years since, he’s continued his education, but with both his medication and
  
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• High blood pressure risk: THIS pesto brand is being called out for increasing salt levels

  04-10-2017 13:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  HIGH blood pressure risk can be lowered by reducing salt from your diet, however a popular pesto brand has been found to have increased the salt levels in their products.
  
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• How a diet of potato, meat and Cheerios made boy go BLIND

  04-10-2017 13:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The strange case, involving medics at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, was published in JAMA Pediatrics Clinical Challenge. It stemmed from a lack of vitamin A.
  
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• Care homes places 'crisis' in five years across England

  04-10-2017 12:55 via bbc.co.uk
  Rising numbers of people aged 80 and over are not being matched by care home beds, Which? says
  
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• Starting school before 8.30am causes depression

  04-10-2017 12:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the University of Rochester Medical Center believe early start times put pressure on children to get plenty of shut eye, which hinders their ability to sleep and causes depression.
  
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• Why factory farming is not just cruel – but also a threat to all life on the planet

  04-10-2017 12:36
  It’s time the world woke up to the real impact of modern, industrial farming, says Philip Lymbery, author of Farmageddon and the DeadzoneThe world desperately needs joined-up action on industrial farming if it is to avoid catastrophic impacts on life on earth, according to the head of one of the world’s most highly regarded animal campaign groups.Philip Lymbery, chief executive of Compassion in World Farming (CIWF) and the author of Farmageddon and more recently Deadzone, said: &ldqu
  
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