31 h. ago 'Healthy' foods that are secretly spiking your blood sugar and causing weight gain

These seemingly 'healthy' foods are sabotaging your diet by raising your blood sugar levels

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3 d. ago Eddie Howe health explained as he battles pneumonia infection with a 14% death rate

He's fit and healthy but Eddie Howe has been laid low by pneumonia and the number of people who pass away from it annually in Britain is higher than anywhere else in Europe

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3 d. ago Murder probe after dad dies in devastating UK house explosion

The UK tragedy saw 999 crews called to John Street in Worksop

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3 d. ago Tragic groom, 29, who died in horror incident on Benidorm stag do pictured

Dad-of-one Oliver Holroyd, 29, from Halifax, died in front of his father and friends on his stag do in Benidorm after falling backwards off a bar stool and hitting his head

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4 d. ago Why having untreated high blood pressure could be a RISK FACTOR FOR dementia

For years we've known high blood pressure is bad for your health. It raises your risk of heart attacks, strokes and kidney failure. Now it's clear high blood pressure is also a major cause of dementia.

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4 d. ago Why having 'normal' blood pressure could be a sign of dementia

For years we've known high blood pressure is bad for your health. It raises your risk of heart attacks, strokes and kidney failure. Now it's clear high blood pressure is also a major cause of dementia.

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4 d. ago Bridegroom, 29, dies on Benidorm stag do in front of his dad and friends after 'falling off bar stool'

The dad-of-one died after a horrifying incident at Benidorm's Funky Flamingo bar

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4 d. ago Family's double heartache as dad and son die within days of each other

Alan Chappell, 72, died a week after his son Justin, 28, sadly passed away after suffering a fatal seizure

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4 d. ago Brit groom dies on Benidorm stag do in front of dad and mates in Flamingo Bar tragedy

A Brit groom was pronounced dead at the Funky Flamingo bar in Benidorm while on a stag with friends and family – the man's wedding was planned for May this year

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4 d. ago Music can lift mood, foster community and even rewire brains – but does it need to have a purpose?

The therapeutic role music can play is the focus of a string of new books and even an entire BBC radio station. But why can’t we just listen to music for music’s sake?Growing up, I never questioned the intrinsic value of classical music. My father practising classical and jazz guitar was the aural wallpaper to my childhood, and at my rural state school I took lessons on the recorder, the violin, the cello, the trombone, the piano. The after-school clubs on offer included, somewhat implausibly, an ocarina ensemble. Music was art, and wasn’t art the point of it all, when you got right down to it? The reason to live, after we cater for all our basic needs? It was certainly what led me to become first a classical musician, and then a music historian.But when my dad died unexpectedly in 2019, it threw my relationship with music into sharp relief. All of a sudden, I couldn’t bear listening to it. It was too painful, or it grated on my nerves and made me angry. I started to question how an...

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4 d. ago Young dad on Benidorm stag do collapses and dies in front of friends and family

The 29-year-old was pronounced dead following the incident at the Funky Flamingo bar on March 22.

Events

6 d. ago Think your dog is fit and healthy? TV vet warns these ten signs could signify an underlying health issue

Experts are warning many of us are not taking our four-legged friends for regular check-ups

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7 d. ago 'I was a really fit, healthy doctor living a happy life until something completely out of the blue at work'

The then-31-year-old was rushed to A&E at the hospital where she was working as a fertility doctor

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8 d. ago Footballer, 21, dies after horror clash with keeper during match as dad watches on

The youngster was left unconscious after colliding with a keeper during a Peruvian Cup match

Events

8 d. ago Colin Farrell's dad Eamon dies after 'long illness' with family by his side

Hollywood actor Colin Farrell's dad and former Shamrock Rovers football player, Eamon, has died after a long illness, according to a death notice

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8 d. ago Pollen peril: how heat, thunder and smog are creating deadly hay fever seasons

Scientists say a complex mix of factors are making seasonal allergies worse for longer in many parts of the world – but why is it happening and is it here to stay?The first time it happened, László Makra thought he had flu. The symptoms appeared from nowhere at the end of summer in 1989: his eyes started streaming, his throat was tight and he could not stop sneezing. Makra was 37 and otherwise fit and healthy, a mid-career climate scientist in Szeged, Hungary. Winter eventually came and he thought little of it. Then, it happened the next year. And the next.“I had never had these symptoms before. It was high summer: it was impossible to have the flu three consecutive years in a row,” he says. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Only people 'fit and healthy' enough for surgery will be added to waitlists in Wales

It is all part of plans to cut waiting times

Science

1 week ago The six things a physio wishes people over 60 would stop doing

Keep yourself fit and healthy by addressing these common habits and thought processes

Politics

1 week ago ‘My father’s death saved my life’: director Steve McQueen on grief, gratitude and living with cancer

After his dad died at 67, the 12 Years a Slave film-maker knew it was only a matter of time before he would get prostate cancer, too. The disease kills 12,000 men a year in the UK – a disproportionate number of them black. Now, in a bid to save lives, he is speaking out about his own diagnosis, alongside the doctors who successfully treated himSteve McQueen felt relieved when he was diagnosed with prostate cancer. He had no symptoms, was perfectly fit, at the peak of his game. Yet the Oscar-winning film-maker and artist believed it was inevitable. After all, his father had died from it, and he is a black man. The statistics speak for ­themselves. They are as overwhelming as they are bleak. One in eight men will get prostate c­ancer. They are two and a half times more likely to get it if their father or brother had it. They’re twice as likely to get it if they’re black – and they’re two and a half times more likely to die from it, too.McQueen is here today with his urology specialist...

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1 week ago ‘My father’s death saved my life’: director Steve McQueen on grief, gratitude and getting cancer

After his dad died at 67, the 12 Years a Slave film-maker knew it was only a matter of time before he would get prostate cancer, too. The disease kills 12,000 men a year in the UK – a disproportionate number of them black. Now, in a bid to save lives, he is speaking out about his own diagnosis, alongside the doctors who successfully treated himSteve McQueen felt relieved when he was diagnosed with prostate cancer. He had no symptoms, was perfectly fit, at the peak of his game. Yet the Oscar-winning film-maker and artist believed it was inevitable. After all, his father had died from it, and he is a black man. The statistics speak for ­themselves. They are as overwhelming as they are bleak. One in eight men will get prostate c­ancer. They are two and a half times more likely to get it if their father or brother had it. They’re twice as likely to get it if they’re black – and they’re two and a half times more likely to die from it, too.McQueen is here today with his urology specialist...

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