7 h. ago Experts says stop eating these nine foods after the age of 50

The body changes in metabolism, nutritional needs, and the ability to process certain foods after a certain age

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2 d. ago How much protein do you really need? Top GP warns that too much can be as bad as too little

We're constantly told to eat more protein, with many people eating it at the exclusion of other key nutrients, but experts warn that this advice is not only misleading, but potentially harmful.

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1 week ago Is it okay to eat an avocado once it's gone brown? Top food experts give their verdict

Top food experts have revealed whether or not it's safe to eat avocado that has gone brown.

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1 week ago 996 work culture is sad and inhumane. Whatever’s wrong with 888 – or even 000? | Emma Beddington

Silicon Valley is keen, once more, on a working pattern of 12-hour days, six days a week. It really is time for a new approach ...My current cultural comfort food is The Gilded Age, Julian Fellowes’ deeply silly Manhattan toffs-in-bustles drama, in which one storyline (summarily dealt with due to lack of taffeta-rustling opportunities, I suspect) features a tycoon’s downtrodden steelworkers going on strike for “888”: eight hours each of work, sleep and recreation.That wasn’t a revolutionary demand in the 1880s. The slogan, coined by the utopian social reformer Robert Owen, dates from 1817 (his New Lanark mill workers still did 10.5-hour days, though). Even then, it wasn’t unprecedented: apparently, a 16th-century Spanish ordinance limited New World construction workers to eight-hour days. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago One third of children in parts of Kenya severely malnourised as aid cuts worsen crisis

Exclusive: Data from Save the Children reveals a devastating shortages of food in affecting tens of thousands of infants under the age of five

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2 w. ago Pharmaceutical companies are 'cashing in on shame' with weight

Dr Ord, who has battled bulimia and anorexia herself, worked as a trainer on The Biggest Loser UK before retraining as a psychologist, specialising in body image.

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2 w. ago Simple snack before bed 'relaxes muscles' and 'calms body' for better sleep

Experts recommend eating one "melatonin-promoting" food before bed in order to get better sleep

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4 w. ago New fat jab triggers weight loss without changing the way you eat

A new type of weight loss jab could tackle obesity without people needing to change their eating habits, experts have claimed.

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4 w. ago New discovery shatters caveman myth and solves 'missing part of the story'

Both cavewomen and cavechildren went scavenging for food back in the Stone Age as new research finally shatters the centuries-old caveman myth

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