…e, sugar and vegetable oil, combined with days spent behind a desk and a wheel, saw him gain a sizeable belly and the apple shape so common today. In 1987, he died of a massive heart attack, aged just 65. His diet in his later years was not one that would have appealed to Gran. She was vehemently against margarine. “I’m not eating anything made in a factory,” she’d say. “You don’t know what they p…
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…k his life, few people knew that the well-known automotive entrepreneur wrestled with bipolar disorder. “Currently the best treatments for bipolar disorder are only effective for 30 percent to 50 percent of patients,” said Melvin McInnis, M.D., the Thomas B and Nancy Upjohn Woodworth Professor of Bipolar Disorder and Depression at the University of Michigan Medical School and associate dir…
stitute suggest there is a link between eating processed meat, such as bacon or sausages, and pancreatic cancer The study, published in the British Journal of Cancer, analyzed data from 11 trials and 6,643 patients with pancreatic cancer. It found that eating processed meat increased the risk of pancreatic cancer. The risk increased by 19% for every 50g someone added to their daily diet. Having a…
health-related deaths and Kate Chilver was sectioned under the mental health act, and remained so until the time of her death. One in every 200 women and one in every 2,000 men is affected and around 5% of sufferers will die from complications caused by malnutrition….
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Japanese magazine Numéro had airbrushed out Karlie Kloss’ prominent ribs in a photoshoot. The original photo, shot by Greg Kadel and released by his studio, showed the 20-year-old model leaning back with her hands behind her head. But the image that made its way onto the pages of the magazine’s October issue, Karlie Kloss’s ribs, sternum and prominent collar bones had been smoothed ov…
Sep 27 2012 | Posted in
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Read More » …ife, such as the patient’s job or social life. They must not be brought on by drugs or alcohol, or another mental disorder. The conclusions were drawn after the researchers interviewed more than 200 people who had been referred to a mental health clinic, without knowing the reasons for their referral. Of them, 150 were thought to have sexual behavior problems; the others had problems such as…
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Nicole Delien, a Pennsylvania teenager, slept for 64 days from Thanksgiving into January – her longest sleeping episode yet – as she struggles with a rare sleep disorder called Kleine-Levine, or Sleeping Beauty Syndrome, which affects an estimated 1,000 people around the world. During her sleep spells, which began when she was six and a half, Nicole Delien, now 17,will wake up in a co…
Nov 20 2012 | Posted in
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…nt life – almost everything any person may possibly would like. But it wasn’t sufficient. It was never good enough. Brandon Marshall But now we know the reason why: the All-Pro seated for 30 minutes along with journalists following training yesterday and stated he was diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder earlier this year. Miami Dolphins’ wide receiver has borderline persona…
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…off. The diet soared in popularity after featuring in a BBC2 Horizon documentary a few weeks ago by health journalist Dr. Michael Mosley. After a month eating normally five days a week and eating just 600 calories the other two days – known as the 5/2 diet – Dr. Michael Mosley lost nearly a stone, reduced his body fat by about 25% and improved his blood sugar and cholesterol levels. Scientif…
Aug 30 2012 | Posted in
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than calories from solid food, according to a study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Cutting out just one sugary drink a day resulted in a weight loss of more than 1lb after six months. 6. Underseasoning your food. Adding a bit of ground cayenne pepper to your meal can help burn calories faster. What’s more, the pepper seems to curb hunger – especially for fatty, salty and swe…
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pounders in 10 minutes Cheesecakes – 11lbs in 9 minutes. Chicken nuggets – 80 in 5 minutes Chicken wings – 183 in 12 minutes Crabcakes – 46 3oz cakes in 10 minutes Eggs – 65 hard boiled in 6 minutes, 40 seconds Fruitcakes – 4lbs, 14oz in 10 minutes Gyoza – 206 n 10 minutes Jambalaya – 9lbs of crayfish variety in 10 mins Lobster – 11.3lbs of mea…
Nov 26 2011 | Posted in
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…; if you look at the list of foods, you’ll see plenty of acidic ones that can be part of a healthy diet. It’s the ratio you need to get right. She recommends 70% of what you eat should be alkaline and 30% acidic to help tip your body into an alkaline state. She also advises having plenty of fibre from fruit and vegetables, plus wholegrains, to help sweep out your digestive tract and reduce your ac…
Jul 23 2012 | Posted in
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been used as a folk-medicine tonic. Science has shown that it can lower blood-sugar levels and that it helps with weight loss, probably by suppressing appetite. A 2009 Japanese study showed drinking a 500 ml drink with a tablespoonful or half-tablespoon of cider vinegar led to greater weight loss, because people ate less, and lower blood cholesterol than drinking water. Mix a splash with honey and…
Apr 29 2012 | Posted in
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an set up a binge/diet cycle that ruins your metabolism.” James Duigan says: “Just eat nutritious, wholesome foods that are as unprocessed as possible and forget about how many calories they contain.” 6. You can’t eat too much fruit “Lastly, most people assume the five-a-day message just applies to fruit, but try to eat more vegetables than fruit,” says James Duigan. “Fruit is high in natural suga…
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Pictures from inside the car of Peter Skyllberg, the Swedish man who survived in his snow-covered car on nothing but snow for two months in sub-zero temperatures, have been emerged to press. Peter Skyllberg, 44, had eaten nothing but handfuls of snow since December 19 when his car became bogged down in drifts near the town of Umea in northern Sweden. The images show the dashboard and seats covere…
and help to promote a healthy body image.” Girls under the age of 16 have already been banned from catwalks in London and the US, but this is the first time a magazine has issued its own standards. In 2009, Alexandra Shulman spoke out against the practice of designers providing tiny sample sizes. She sent a strongly worded letter to fashion houses saying she had been forced to hire girls “with jut…
“Bicholim Conflict” was voted a “good article” – a Wikipedia badge of honor – and sat happily on the online encyclopedia for more than half a decade. But editors have lately discovered a small issue with the site’s meticulously written 4,500 word article detailing the 17th century Bicholim Conflict. It was entirely made up. After five years of featuring the piece, which tells th…
ything could happen. I feel the mayor should do something about that. The children should be our first priority, no matter what else is going on in the city.” Zak, a former Cleveland police officer of 30 years, believes the community is feeling the effects of the city’s cuts in the police force. “The first thing a city should do is protect its citizens,” he said. Although police cannot be on the s…
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The amount of fish a woman eats while pregnant may affect her child’s chances of developing attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Eating fish twice a week was linked to about a 60% lower risk of a child developing certain ADHD-like symptoms, according to research from the Boston University School of Public Health. But the type of fish eaten is the key. Elevated mercury levels, wh…
Oct 10 2012 | Posted in
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it and vegetables, such as “On average, how many nights a week does your family eat at a table?” and “Do you cut up fruit and vegetables for your child to eat?” The study found 656 families said they always ate meals together at a table, 768 sometimes did, while 92 families never did so. Children in the “always” group ate five portions of fruit and vegetables, c…
Dec 23 2012 | Posted in
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Solar Impulse, a solar-powered plane, has landed in Rabat, Morocco, after flying from Spain, completing the second leg of its pioneering journey. Pilot Bertrand Piccard landed the Solar Impulse in Rabat, 19 hours after taking off from Madrid. The plane – the size of a jumbo jet – was powered by 12,000 solar cells turning four electrical motors. The 2,500 km-trip (1,550 miles), begun i…
…estigated the strength of protection from flavonoids, a class of antioxidant compounds present in fruits, vegetables, dark chocolate and red wine. The study used 14 years of follow-up data provided by 69,622 women who reported their food intake, including details on fruit and vegetable consumption every four years. The research team examined the relationship of the six main subclasses of flavonoid…
Israel passed a law banning models from advertisements or fashion shows if they measure less than 18.5 on the body mass index (BMI). The new law is part of an effort to promote health for women of all sizes, and to stop glorifying the ultra-thin. “Beautiful is not underweight,” says Rachel Adato, one of the creators of the bill. In recent years, much attention has been paid to how wo…
…wn as the Drink. A group of top international rowers were given it shortly before they rowed on fixed machines in a lab. After half an hour of hard rowing, those getting the Drink had rowed on average 50 m further in the same time than when they had a dummy drink. This was an improvement of 0.5%. It can be the difference between silver and gold. Dr. Scott Drawer, head of research at UK Sport, who…
Nov 27 2012 | Posted in
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A 63-year-old South Korean woman became “pregnant” with 12 baby squid after eating calamari, according to a claim in a bio-tech report. The woman was eating a portion of cooked whole squid when she felt a sharp pain in her mouth. The bizarre claim has been made in a scientific paper from the National Center for Biotechnology Information in Bethesda, Maryland. The lady told doctors that she could…
