5 d. ago Eating this popular food just once a week could slash your risk of developing dementia

Dementia can be a distressing and debilitating condition, but a new study has suggested that increasing your intake of one particular food could help lower your risk.

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6 d. ago Pathemata by Maggie Nelson review – a writer’s attempt to describe chronic pain

Woolf said language ‘runs dry’ when it comes to convey the reality of illness. Here is an impressive effort to do just thatIn her landmark 1985 work, The Body in Pain, American essayist Elaine Scarry makes a case for the “unsharability” of pain and its resistance to language. “Physical pain,” she writes, “does not simply resist language but actively destroys it.” Sixty years earlier in On Being Ill, Virginia Woolf made her famous claim about how language “runs dry” when it comes to articulating illness. Both theories grapple with inexpressibility. Experiencing serious, persistent pain invokes many feelings: irritation, curiosity (what’s causing it?), fear (of something sinister) and ultimately the desire to eradicate it. The search for a diagnosis can be as debilitating as the condition itself. In Pathemata: Or, the Story of My Mouth, Maggie Nelson tries to solve the mystery of a longstanding health issue. “Each morning, it is as if my mouth has survived a war – it has pro...

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4 w. ago BBC Breakfast's Naga Munchetty admits 'I've had it forever' as she opens up on 'debilitating' allergy

BBC Breakfast presenter Naga Munchetty has opened up on a 'debilitating' condition during this weekend's show, as she joined co-host Charlie Stayt

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4 w. ago BBC Escape to the Country star issues warning to buyers as they're left devastated

Steve Brown was back on our screens on Friday to help a couple who wanted to move back to the UK after living in Spain but the pair were left devastated after missing out on their dream home

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last month Beloved TikTok grandad who quit job to follow dream left 'devastated' by debilitating condition

The globetrotting gramps went from working as a roofer to gaining 100,000 followers on TikTok

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last month Beloved TikTok grandad who quit job to follow dream left 'devastated'

The globetrotting gramps went from working as a roofer to gaining 100,000 followers on TikTok

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