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“Obesity is the heavy accumulation of fat in your body to such a degree that it significantly increases your risk of diseases that can damage your health and knock years off your life, such as heart disease and diabetes. The fat may be equally distributed around the body or concentrated around the abdomen or midriff…

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 Are You on Good Terms with Winter and Cold? I am asking this because I am not. There hasn’t been a single winter in the past 5 years or so without someone in our family (or all of us) “catching”  something – like a cold, or worse – the flu. I am using the word…

Read More Flu & Cold: Why Some People Never Get Sick, and How You Can Become One of Them

The subject of lead toxicity came up when I switched on the news channel a few days ago. I only caught the last words of it – that as a result of scientific research, removing lead from petrol significantly reduced crime in several USA cities (where the research was conducted). Since the subject of heavy…

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Would you agree that few people can say that they haven’t tried to diet at least once in their life?  And in so many cases success is so short-lived… It has happened to me more than once, which made me ask myself – why do most diets fail to bring long-term results? What normally happens…

Read More Five Reasons Most Diets Fail