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The bookshelves at NYNHB towers are currently heaving with some brilliant new health books – most of them deserve a post to themselves, but time doesn’t really allow it – so, instead I’m going to do a mini round up…
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I’m about to introduce you to possibly the scariest thing I have ever found online. It’s the British Heart Foundation BMI Calculator. Ostensibly a tool to help you calculate your correct body mass index – a calculation doctors use to…
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I don’t write too many proper serious health posts on here. To be honest, that’s my day job and I write this blog for fun – but in the last few weeks I have written three features on bowels for…
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As I said, I’ve recently come back from holiday – Thailand mostly. That means two eleven hour plus flights from where I’m based. Now, when you’ve lived in Australia/NZ at a time when most of your family and work clients…
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The Boyfriend and I have spent this morning rolling around the floor and grunting a lot. No, this isn’t some 50 Shades style confession, we’ve been trying to sit down and then stand up from a sitting position without using…
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This month my theme is all things NEW in diet, fitness and beauty – today, a new book that might help you spot food intolerances freeing you from miserable symptoms like headaches, sneezing – and, if the theory is to…
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It’s not news that the Japanese are among the longest living races on earth: reasons put forward as to why include high levels of fish in their diets, generally low body weights, green tea consumption – but I believe I…
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Okay, I admit it, I may have been fibbing a teeny tiny bit over the last 10 days. I may actually have been on my Japan trip and written a few posts before I left. See I’m a paranoid person…
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This is Day 11 of my Japan inspired posts – today we get serious – and talk about the nocebo effect. I read a really interesting post on Tofugu the other day about how Japanese doctors have a tradition of…
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They are…. Hara Hachi Bu. And, in rough translation they mean ‘eat until you are eight parts full’. In other words, do not leave the table groaning with pain because you’ve crammed in everything on your plate, get up when…
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