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A Gene Sequence Which Determines If Coffee Is Good for Your Heart

A Gene Sequence Which Determines If Coffee Is Good for Your Heart
A gene sequence may be the answer to the debated topic whether coffee is healthful or harmful for your heart. Those with the sequence on gene CYP1A2*1F are not able to remove the caffeine quickly from their body while those with the sequence CYP1A2*1A are rapid metabolizers of caffeine. A study found that those who…
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4 Good Reasons to Get Back in Your Kitchen

4 Good Reasons to Get Back in Your Kitchen
With the ability to deliver fast food pretty much anywhere at any time you may wonder why bother using your kitchen at all? Here are four good reasons to keep cooking a part of your lifestyle: Cost. You do pay for convenience and cooking at home will save you money. Saving can increase further if…
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Gym Goers Take Advantage of this Performance Enhancer

Gym Goers Take Advantage of this Performance Enhancer
If you exercise at the gym for 20-70 minutes at a time you will want to read this. Endurance exercise is meant to make you feel puffed, get your breathing rate up and make you feel hotter, but did you know rinsing your mouth with peppermint can help reduce these symptoms during exercising? Unfortunately for…
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Immediate Benefits of Eating your Veggies

Immediate Benefits of Eating your Veggies
Let’s face it, it can be difficult to eat enough veggies a day to look after your health. The desire to get through the last few brussel sprouts, kale or broccoli can be low if the consequence of eating them is going to be seen in many years to come. Good news is recent studies…
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Olive Leaf Extract to Kill a Cold

Olive Leaf Extract to Kill a Cold
  This time of year, you are almost guaranteed to catch some form of cold. The amount you suffer from this is down to recovering well with sleep, drinking plenty of water and of course optimal nutrition. Have you considered the power of olive leaf extract? There are compounds called phytoalexins which are like the…
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Nutrition to Tame Your Period Beast

Nutrition to Tame Your Period Beast
You are not alone if that time of the month leaves you feeling cranky, bloated and reaching for chocolate. You may already know some strategies to help make this time of the month suck a little less like exercising but do you know ways your diet can help make this time a little easier? Tame…
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A Lifestyle to Increase Your Lifespan

A Lifestyle to Increase Your Lifespan
20-30% of your lifespan is determined by your genes. The rest can be controlled to a large extent by optimising your environmental and individual behaviours. Positive changes to the way you eat, exercise and behave may keep your telomeres which act as buffers to the end of the chromosomes of your DNA and protect your…
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4 Common Inflammation Myths

4 Common Inflammation Myths
Are you one of the many confused by what foods cause inflammation? There are many ‘experts’ selling their opinion but unfortunately these opinions are often not backed up by science. Let’s clear up fact from fiction of 4 common myths on inflammation. Myth: Gluten causes inflammation. Fact: Unless you have celiac disease or are intolerant…
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