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Reducing Homocysteine May Help Increase Longevity(Post)
Homocysteine is an amino acid by-product which is manufactured as a result of the metabolism of protein rich foods such as meat and dairy products. Clinically evaluated studies carried out over the l ...
Reducing The Risk of Deep Vein Thrombosis(Post)Deep Vein Thrombosis, DVT, is caused by the pooling of blood in a vein, which triggers the blood clotting mechanism. The formation of the blood clot, known as a thrombus, usually occurs in a deep leg ...
Sarah's Health Notes: Lyme Disease Alert(Post)I’m on my annual summer mission to persuade everyone to trouser up for tramps in the long grass whether you’re in country fields or urban parks. I wrote this feature last year but the message is exac ...
Gardening(Post)This is my favourite time of year, when Mother Nature wakes from the long, deep sleep of winter. The branches of trees are dusted with fresh new green, and the woods are alive with the gentle colours ...
How Yoga Can Help Anxiety(Post)However buoyant we are usually, the current climate is triggering a tsunami of anxiety and depression, which affects people to varying degrees of intensity. Many of us don’t want to take medication – ...
Sarah's Health Notes: Reaching Out…(Post)We hadn’t seen each other for ten years but, as my dear friend Ben remarked, ‘it felt like no time at all’. He is an old friend both in age (84) and how long we’ve known each other – about 40 years.
Post-Workout Beauty(Post)Let’s just get one thing straight: I am not, and never have been, the sporty type. Not long ago I informed my husband that the very last words he was ever likely to hear coming out of my mouth are: ‘ ...
How To Save Yourself(Post)Life, I’ve decided, is too short to spend dithering over what to wear. And so I post the question: how long did it take you to get dressed this morning? Two minutes? Ten minutes? Half an hour…? Over ...
Suicide(Post)Suicide. It scares people – both those who are not suicidal, and those who are. It’s almost impossible to talk about unless you are with somebody who understands, because they have been there themsel ...
The Importance Of Self Reflection(Post)One of the more extraordinary and wonderful things that happened to me in the last decade was – as some of you already know – appearing as Lauren Laverne’s castaway on Desert Island Discs last summer ...
Weekend Read 25 September 2021(Post)As I welcome you to the Weekend Read, I would like to continue talking about some of the issues that remain concerning for so many. This doesn’t mean we can’t laugh, it doesn’t mean we can’t have fu ...
The Lymphatic System(Post)What is the lymphatic system? The lymphatic system is the largest circulatory system within the body and it is also a system which has not been fully investigated. In fact, most people are simply una ...