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Cinnamon Has Certain Health Benefits

Cinnamon has been considered for a number of years to be another food that can provide health benefits.  One being that it can prevent spikes in blood sugar, which then improves insulin take up for your...

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Get A Tent And Improve Your Sleep

Get A Tent and Improve Your Sleep In a recent article in the Guardian it said that there had been a study on sleep where a group had been sent camping in the neighbouring hills...

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Make Sure You Eat Your Broccoli

Broccoli has been shown that it is one of nature’s most valuable health promoting foods and is capable of preventing a number of health problems. It is believed that it can contribute towards lowering blood pressure, reduce or remove allergies,...

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Being Outdoors With Nature Is Good For You

Spending time outdoors in green spaces has psychological and physical benefits. Just having a walk outside amongst nature has been shown to release endorphins and help reduce depression. A study has found that experiencing nature may...

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Knee Problems After 50

A large number of people over fifty are likely to have or to get pains in the knee. It is often known as osteoarthritis. The pain can be to the side of the knee, above or below...

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Are You Eating Enough Purple Food?

“Absent Mindedness” or a ‘Senior Moment” is something that tends to happen more as we age. This is thought to be due to our brain shrinking. It is believed that our brain shrinks about 5% a decade...

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Sitting Can Affect Your Health

It’s spring so I thought that it was a good time to remind you that you needed to spring up onto your feet and be as active as possible. As I started to write...

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Could Intermittent Fasting Help You ?

Intermittent fasting is one where you feast on some days and cut down greatly on calories on other days. Our bodies were originally made to deal with periods of feasting and then famine as...

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Bitter Truth

When you eat anything bitter you screw up your face and probably stick out your tongue. This is a natural reaction to bitterness. Bitterness is a reaction to a toxin. Not all bitter things are...

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What’s Your Excuse For Not Exercising?

Is this familiar to you? “I’m too tired”, “I’ve got no time”, “it’s too cold”, “it’s raining”, “I’m too embarrassed”, “I don’t have the right clothes”, “I’ve got too much work”,”people will be looking at me” etc. If you...