29 h. ago Beauty queen, 20, dies in horror motorbike crash on one of world's most dangerous roads

Alondra Marianela Hernández Pérez, 20, was on her way to work when she suddenly lost control of her bike and crashed on the notorious San Marcos-Quetzaltenango road

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1 week ago Joe Wicks accused of 'triggering eating disorders' over dangerous diet and 'relapse'

Joe Wicks, also known as The Body Coach, has been documenting his bid to go sugar free on his social media – with some experts now speaking out about the attempt

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1 week ago 'For years, we have repeatedly raised concerns about its dangers... now someone has died'

A 70-year-old woman died earlier this month

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2 w. ago The secret life of a child star: how Alyson Stoner survived stalkers, starvation and sexualisation

Stoner was a small child when they began acting professionally – and their experience included extreme pressure, dangerous diets, rehab, dashed hopes and self-doubt. Now, with a new memoir, they consider how they escaped ‘the toddler to train-wreck pipeline’When Alyson Stoner was nine, a wardrobe assistant on the set of a TV show noticed the child actor’s dark leg-hair and told Stoner it was “dirty and unladylike”, and that they couldn’t wear shorts in the show until it was removed. “I started to view my body in a detached way where it was just something to control, to fix, to manipulate for whatever standard was presented to me,” says Stoner. “In this case, the extreme beauty standards of the industry.”It was a lot for a nine-year-old to take on, but by then Stoner had been working for several years – they were a Disney regular, and appeared in films such as Cheaper By the Dozen – and were used to doing whatever adults asked. As a teenager, this would lead to an excessive exercise ...

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2 w. ago French listeria outbreak which has already killed two could have spread to UK, European health officials warn

Twenty five people have been infected and two have died following an outbreak of dangerous listeria linked to soft cheese supplied by a French manufacturer.

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2 w. ago Parents of woman who died in Texas flooding file lawsuit saying campground had ‘history of dangerous flooding’

The lawsuit accuses the campground of placing ‘guests in a known floodplain with a history of dangerous flooding’

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3 w. ago Joe Wicks's health advice labelled 'dangerous' after he told fans he 'relapsed' on his sugar

The 'Body Coach', 39, also said that eating 'half a melon, three satsumas, two nectarines and three peaches' was 'not normal'.

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