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More People Seek Gastric Band Surgery To Lose Weight

More people are failing to lose weight with diet and exercise programs and instead opting to go under the knife. Gastric band operations are becoming more common. However, are...

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What Is A Perfect Man? Strong, Lean or Fat?

What Is A Perfect Man? Strong, Lean or Fat?

The question of the perfect man, the holotype of the human male, came up on QI. It turns out that there is not an official perfect man as previous...

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Healthy Lifestyle Makes You More Attractive

Researchers at St. Andrews University have found that people find healthier faces more attractive. Diet and exercise actaully makes people look more attractive than make up. Women all over...

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Think Twice Before You Ice – Icing May Not Be The Best Approach

Latest research has shown that cooling an injury with ice is not always the best treatment. In fact in some case using an ice pack (often a bag of...

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Fat Burning Creams Actually Work?

Fat Burning Creams Actually Work?

The weight loss industry has now turned to the insecurities of some new moms and created a weight loss cream that can be rubbed over your belly to help...

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Rebecca Adlington – Olympic Double Gold Winner – Her Swimming Workout

Rebecca Adlington – Olympic Double Gold Winner – Her Swimming Workout

Rebecca Adlington: Date of Birth: 17/02/1989 Lives: Mansfield Born: Mansfield Country of Birth: England Height: 179cm Weight: 71kg Club: Nova Centurion Coach: Bill Furniss Occupation: Swimmer / Olympic Hero...

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Europe Votes for the GDA Food Labelling System

The European Parliament today voted on front of pack food labelling. The vote is intended to introduce a European-wide food labelling system for processed foods (ready meals, sandwiches, pies...

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Practice Makes Perfect, Not Genetics – Matthew Syed’s Bounce

Why are some people very good at sports while others are left on the touchline? Why do some people become great scientists or salespersons, while others fail in these...

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Make Small Changes To Eating Habits Rather Than Diet To Lose Weight Successfully

Make Small Changes To Eating Habits Rather Than Diet To Lose Weight Successfully

Researchers from Liverpool and Oxford universities have reported that rates of obesity could be reduced and health improved if people made small changes to their diets. There is an...

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Pineapple Studios Boss Wastes an Opportunity to Promote Healthy Living

Homeopathy seems to have been getting some bad press recently, which it rightly deserves. However, now an article in the Daily Mail newspaper (online edition) is once again promoting...

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Seth Wescott – Profile of an Olympic Snowboarder

The 2010 Winter Olympics are underway in Canada at the moment, and there is some pretty exciting action coming from the snowy slopes of Cypress Mountain. Seth Wescott has...

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Tips to Fight off Colds and Flu

It is cold and flu season again. The panic over swine flu is subsiding although there continue to be new cases, but now the weather is turning colder more...

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How Dangerous Is Horse Riding?

How Dangerous Is Horse Riding?

Was it right for Prof. Nutt to compare ecstasy to horse riding? Was it right for him to be sacked for making this comparison? Horse riding is for many...

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For Long Life and Good Health, Keep Working

It seems that work is good for us. Many people dream of the day that they can retire, but in reality our work keep us healthy. A recent study...

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Parasitic Gut Worms Ward Off Asthma

Parasitic Gut Worms Ward Off Asthma

Some remarkable news has come out of Vietnam, from research carried out by Nottingham University. It seems that one of the reasons why asthma and other allergies such as...

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British National Health Service to Partner with Google and Microsoft

The British National Health Service (NHS) has undergone a lot of criticism in recent years due to overspending on IT project that have subsequently failed to delivery on time...

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