Health and Fitness

Foods, benefits and meal plan

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Sarah Carter

Ignore chronic inflammation at your peril. Recognised as a contributor to many deaths globally, half of these are partly attributable to inflammation-related ...

Can’t resist white sliced bread? Here are the ‘healthiest’ loaves to buy

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Sarah Carter

The humble white sliced loaf has been an essential part of the fabric of British life for around 100 years, when it ...

My food addiction was a cycle of total misery – here’s how I learnt to control it

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Sarah Carter

After I retired from the NHS two years ago, I took a course called Holistic Medicine for Addiction with Bitten Jonsson and ...

I had a happy family and a good job as a GP – but I decided to kill myself

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Sarah Carter

Juliette Stern, whose husband Miles Christie, a London-based GP, died by suicide in 2018, believes the NHS should force surgeries to hold ...

The truth about women and emotional eating

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Sarah Carter

It’s the classic image of a lonely woman: Bridget Jones, wrapped in a duvet and clutching a half-eaten tub of Ben & ...

How to keep off the pounds after stopping weight-loss jabs

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Sarah Carter

Normally, the dose is gradually increased as patients get used to the treatment. But the study of 2,246 Danes, with an average ...

Benefits, heart health and weight loss

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Sarah Carter

“The Med diet can include white pasta and grains on occasion, but within the pyramid, the biggest layer is for whole fruits ...

What the colour and shape of your poo says about your health

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Sarah Carter

Yellow stools “People can get yellow stools for various reasons, you can sometimes get it in the context of viral infections, and ...

I’m 78 and taking magic mushrooms – I’ve never looked back

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Sarah Carter

Christie’s own experience with psychedelics unfolded in the darkened downstairs bedroom of a bearded man named Bill. He gulped down a concoction ...

The three ages at which affairs are most likely – and how to stop them

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Sarah Carter

A new book How To Be Unfaithful Without Getting Caught is shamelessly designed to tell its mostly male-readership how to cheat and ...