Wellness tips, fitness advice, and health related breakthroughs.
Wellness tips, fitness advice, and health related breakthroughs.
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Picture this. You're sitting on the sofa in your fancy pajamas, as the windows are shut and Netflix blares in front of you. The credits on that episode of Friends finish rolling, but before the next episode starts, Netflix stops everything to ask if you're still... y'know, alive. You know…
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It's amazing how much we have to juggle our social life with exercise and fitness. There have been many guilty occasions where I've shafted the gym and gone to hang out with friends. But all it takes is a few too many beers and not enough time spent on the…
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Although you don't really think of it much of the time, a huge part of living in the food world is all about innovation. Food companies are forever trying to top themselves with new burgers, dips and sides, or they're trying to figure out ways to improve on flagship offerings.…
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We don't often think about how much we take our five senses for granted, but if we were to lose just one of them, it would change our lives forever. Just think about never being able to experience the sight of your loved ones' face, or the sound of music,…
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When it comes to personal health and hygiene, I really think there is nothing more important than looking after your teeth. Nobody wants to grow old and lose their beautiful pearly whites - with false teeth and dentures a grim reality for those of us who don't grasp how important…
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Sometimes, it takes something very weird to motivate us to make a big change. Maybe hearing a beautiful piece of music is what inspires you to learn a musical instrument, or watching a travel documentary might convince you to give up your day job and go backpacking around the world. And…
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Health authorities across the US and Canada are warning people everywhere to throw out their romaine lettuce, after a new E coli outbreak has begun to spread over the continent of North America. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have warned people against eating romaine lettuce of any…
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Social media is a great platform for activists who want to spread awareness, and when you're scrolling down your Facebook or Twitter feed when you're bored, it truly is amazing the ways in which you can be alerted to social issues you might not have paid a thought to otherwise. One…
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Sophie Michelle is only 21, and yet she's already making over $77,000 a year. How you ask? By whispering on camera for her many thousands of YouTube subscribers. Okay, so it's a little more complicated than that. Sophie, a performing arts student who hails from Cheshire in England, is an ASMR artist. For…
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As someone with allergies, I can confirm that they suck. Even if it does bug me that I can't snuggle up with a cat or go for countryside walks for too long before I need to be taken to hospital, it's not as bad as having a food allergy. For…
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What is it about winter that absolutely ruins any attempt to live healthily? Seriously, there's a reason that we all have winter bodies and summer bodies, and that's because it's so much harder to say trim, go to the gym, and lay off the demon drink when it's pitch dark…
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Why is it that after eating, we can sometimes feel completely satisfied - while at other times our hunger lingers, leading us to go for seconds, thirds, dessert, and resort to snacking before the evening is done? Well, as it turns out, it's not always down to how much we…
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Although there are many people out there living with gluten intolerance and/or coeliac disease, at some point, we've managed to co-opt gluten-free living as some kind of marker of a healthy life. Stepping away from rye, wheat and barley in our daily lives is something we don't really think about…
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We all like to think that we could one day manage to achieve our ideal body, and look like the very best version of ourselves. All it would take would be getting rid of fast food and microwave meals, hitting the salad bar and a few spin classes. Unfortunately, the reality…
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Some people will do anything to get high; whether it's licking a toad's butt or huffing fumes generated from heated manure, there's no low that people won't stoop to in order to get totally baked. However, now it seems that there's a new, and totally gross, method of intoxication that's doing…
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Over the years, we've seen plenty of bizarre trends spring up on Instagram; usually as a result of bored beauty bloggers trying to make their snaps look more interesting, shocking, or just plain weird. A few of them have impressed us with their technical skills, while others just make us…
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Making a change in lifestyle is no mean feat, especially when you are trying to turn hard ingrained habits on their head. Eating habits are often built up over childhood and into adult life, and thus can be extremely difficult to break. And now, perhaps more than ever before, a…
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For most people, a shark attack while swimming would be a scary enough incident. But for Louisiana model Kelly Kohen, it was merely the prelude to an even more painful and frightening ordeal; which led her to escape death twice after she contracted a deadly, flesh-eating disease. Kohen, who hails from New…
