Wellness tips, fitness advice, and health related breakthroughs.
Wellness tips, fitness advice, and health related breakthroughs.
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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…
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It's an unfortunate fact that a lot of men don't discuss their sexual health until it's too late. Whether it's out of bravado, or anxiety, or toxic masculinity, men will often maintain a stoic facade when it comes to sexual or genital issues, and pretend to be unaffected by aches,…
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Regardless of the various toppings and sauces you can get with your incredible pie, you truly haven't lived until you've had a pizza adorned with five different toppings. Four's fine, I suppose, but five's fantastic. Parmesan, cheddar, mozzarella and gorgonzola, but instead of a tomato sauce, the base was adorned…
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Staying in shape isn't easy. You can try all the fad diets and extreme workouts you like, but - ultimately - maintaining a healthy body and lifestyle takes constant work. And we really mean constant. Though you may not realise it, your body is always burning calories - whether you're sitting…
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A restaurant patron out in New Jersey was stunned and devastated to discover that there were nematodes - tiny worms - crawling around in a fish dish. Jim Guinee was dining with his girlfriend Jennifer Marzano at Stella Marina Bar and Restaurant in Middletown when he noticed something in her (half…
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Every day when I get into work, I speak at length with my colleagues about how if I don't have my morning coffee I will be very tempted to bite somebody. They think I'm kidding, but I'm not. Although energy drinks aren't good for you and caffeine pills come with…
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If you asked me to document my weight loss journey on an Instagram account, there would be three pictures of meal plans, healthy breakfasts and vague workout equipment before I gave up and posted seven photos, four videos and one unnecessarily long Instagram story of myself crying into an extra-large…
