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How Does Eating Affect Your Blood Sugar?
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How Does Eating Affect Your Blood Sugar?

Blood sugar, also known as blood glucose, comes from the food you eat. Your body creates blood sugar by digesting some food into a sugar that circulates in your bloodstream. Blood sugar is used for energy. The sugar that isn’t needed to fuel your body right away gets stored in cells for later use. Too much sugar in your blood can be harmful. 

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Measuring up happiness.
Kate Walker Kate Walker

Measuring up happiness.

Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.

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Dealing with worry and anxiety.
Kate Walker Kate Walker

Dealing with worry and anxiety.

Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.

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What is mindful eating?
Kate Walker Kate Walker

What is mindful eating?

Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.

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Emotional eating isn't straightforward.
Kate Walker Kate Walker

Emotional eating isn't straightforward.

Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.

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Healthy Eating Doesn’t Have to Be Expensive
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Healthy Eating Doesn’t Have to Be Expensive

Many people believe that you have to spend lots of money to eat healthy. However, that doesn’t have to be the case. On the contrary, the cost of not-so-healthy fast food, convenience meals, and snacks can stack up pretty quickly and become very expensive over time. In fact, eating healthy can actually save money in the long run, especially if you stick to a few key principles when shopping for, selecting, and preparing your food.

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The 2 Types of Belly Fat and How to Lose It
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The 2 Types of Belly Fat and How to Lose It

Having some fat in your belly is normal. After all, fat serves to protect and insulate your body. However, having too much belly fat may harm your health and increase your risk of developing certain chronic diseases. As such, keeping your total body fat, including your belly fat, at a healthy level can be helpful.

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Hypoglycaemia Symptoms
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Hypoglycaemia Symptoms

Low blood sugar, also known as hypoglycaemia, can be a dangerous condition. Low blood sugar can happen in people with diabetes who take medications that increase insulin levels in the body. Taking too much medication, skipping meals, eating less than normal, or exercising more than usual can lead to low blood sugar for these individuals.

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How Health Buzzwords Trick Consumers
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How Health Buzzwords Trick Consumers

Health buzzwords like ‘protein’, ‘paleo’ and ‘organic’ are used in healthcare marketing as key selling points for many of today’s health products. Yet these words can also trick consumers into believing a product is healthier than it really is.

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Understanding your 'Bliss point.'
Kate Walker Kate Walker

Understanding your 'Bliss point.'

Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.

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The Calorie Fallacy
Kate Walker Kate Walker

The Calorie Fallacy

According to many experts, it all boils down to straightforward maths: Calories in minus calories out equals calorie balance. Countless millions who struggle with their weight heed this message, dutifully tracking their calorie intake. But eventually many discover that all the counting is in vain.

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Lockdown and Weight Gain - should we worry?
Kate Walker Kate Walker

Lockdown and Weight Gain - should we worry?

Over recent months, it’s become impossible to ignore the analysis of whether our changing diet – due to food availability and lifestyle shifts – is impacting our weight.

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Lockdown Weight Gain
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Lockdown Weight Gain

More than 40% of adults in England have gained weight during the pandemic, a survey suggests, with the average gain being half a stone (just over 3kg). Public Health England (PHE), which surveyed 5,000 people, says Covid lockdowns and disrupted daily routines have made it challenging for people to eat healthy and keep fit.

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‘Cave Syndrome’ Keeps the Vaccinated in Social Isolation
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‘Cave Syndrome’ Keeps the Vaccinated in Social Isolation

After a year in isolation, many people who have developed an intimate understanding of what it means to socially isolate are afraid to return to their former lives despite being fully vaccinated. There is even a name for their experience: the clinical sounding “cave syndrome.”

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The Great Friendship Cull
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The Great Friendship Cull

Now, as we emerge out of lockdown, some of us have found that our friendship groups have shrunk to just a handful of people we’ve kept in regular contact with over the last 18 months. But how did this happen? And are we better for it?

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Friendship breakups
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Friendship breakups

Dr. Dunbar suggests that your social world consists of a series of layers and as they increase in size, they decrease in emotional closeness.

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‘Are we still Covid-ing?’
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‘Are we still Covid-ing?’

Abundant research suggests that supportive relationships can help relieve harmful stress, with physical and mental benefits that include resistance to viruses. However, the pandemic has caused stress and strain to every relationship.

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