Sarah’s Health Notes: Lowdown On The Low Carb Diet
There’s no debate about the increase in obesity or overweight increasing a person’s risk of developing type 2 diabetes (T2D) – it accounts for about 80-85% of their risk, according t...
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Sarah’s Health Notes: Take good care of your bones
Chances are most people know about osteoporosis, the condition where your bones become weaker due to a loss of bone density (how much bone tissue inside your bones) and break easily. These ‘frag...
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Sarah's Health Notes: The Trouble With Gel Nails
Yes, they look pretty perfect. Yes, they last for weeks. But - there’s quite a big but with gel nails. Some consumers have experienced problems with nails and nail bed over months and it now eme...
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Sarah’s Health Notes: Beating Winter Blues
Trawling articles about winter blues, medically called Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) or winter depression, I found opinions from psychiatrists saying the condition was a myth or hypochondria. Thes...
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Sarah’s Health Notes: Poems please
What do you long for when you feel low? A hand to hold? A hug? An arm around you? For writer Rachel Kelly who has written about her own experiences of being engulfed by depression, one of the ways tha...
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Sarah’s Health Notes: Natural ways to help soothe eczema
Eczema is a beast. This inflammatory, dry skin condition, aka dermatitis, affects millions of people from babyhood to old age, causing unbearable, often constant itching that leads to ferocious scratc...
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