Tag: Health & wellbeing
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Fossil fuels are the new tobacco when it comes to health risk
Letters: We call on the Wellcome Trust and Gates Foundation to divest from the fossil fuel industry and show the leadership we, as future health professionals, need to bring about a healthier economy
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From antibiotics to fossil fuels: the inconvenient truth about sustainability
Humanity has spent the last century creating life-changing luxuries. Here’s why our next move should be learning how to wean ourselves off these wonders
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Phthalates are everywhere, and the health risks are worrying. How bad are they really?
Phthalates are everywhere, and a tidal wave of new research has documented their wide-ranging negative health impacts, but what are the real risks?Interactive: what’s in your shampoo?
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The truth about ‘miracle foods’ – from chia seeds to coconut oil
Cancer, diabetes, heart disease, dandruff… can these things really be cured, or at least prevented, by what we eat?
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Do you know what too fat looks like?
A study suggests that African American women in the US have a different picture of what unhealthy weight looks like than medical experts, prompting suggestions that pictures should be more widely used with health messages to counter the new normality of excess weight
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How to keep your brain healthy
Could sudoku, drugs and a Mediterranean diet help keep our brains fit? What can the latest neuroscience research tell us?