http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-10726414 Eating less meat may be the key to keeping a healthy weight, say researchers.

A European study of almost 400,000 adults found that eating meat was linked with weight gain, even in people taking in the same number of calories.
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We've all come across fmylife.com, yes? My favourite entry recently: Today, I woke up crying in the middle of a nightmare in which my boyfriend of 8 months shot me through the heart whilst laughing as I screamed 'I Love You'. After I told him about this, he took me into his arms as I cried, stroked my back and said, 'What kind of gun was it?' FML ( Read more... )

In the past month or so, the suggestions from politicos for how Labour should attack the Tories are that they should focus on Cameron vs the party. The biggest example is that David Cameron says he loves the NHS, but members of the Tory party goes on about how awful it is on US telly or suggests that someone who's off work ill should pay £10 to ( Read more... )

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... for making me look up the symptoms to norovirus ( Read more... )

Does anyone have any particular recommendations for good charities/institutions that do medical research into particular conditions? I have zero idea which ones are reputable, and which ones just eat money to pay cushy salaries to people, or anywhere in between. Specifically, I'd like to donate to places that fund research primarily ( Read more... )

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6713163.stm Scientists have shown how having a stroke - or even snoring heavily - can increase the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease.
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That's the only thing you see ultrasound scans for on t'telly, anyway. But it's obvious that being able to see things inside people will work for other things, except everyone has X-rays for that. Or MRIs. Or biopsies. Or lots of things. So it feels a bit weird having an ultrasound scan and not being told I'm pregnant ( Read more... )