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Is salt bad for you?

Do you know how much salt is in your diet? Many of us consume far too much of it, resulting in health concerns such as high blood pressure and possibly cardiovascular disease and cancer. So how can we control the salt in our diet?

Scar-healing foods

I have a brand new scar just above my right brow that needs to be treated with a lot of loving care – especially if I want it to heal nicely and eventually fade away. The most obvious course of action is topical skin treatments, of course, which I plan on thoroughly researching over the […]

Nobel Prize winner Elizabeth Blackburn

Elizabeth Blackburn has become Australia’s first female recipient of the Nobel Prize for Medicine, along with her fellow researchers Carol W Greider and Jack W Szostak. The trio won the prestigious scientific prize, awarded in Stockhom earlier today, for their discovery of telomeres. Likened to plastic tips that keep the end of shoelaces from unravelling, […]

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Hold the line

Aquaculture is espoused by some as the solution to our overfishing woes, but fish farming practices are presenting some problems of their own.

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Room to grow

Nothing tastes better than food grown from your own toil, but what if you don’t have the space? Community gardens are the answer to the apartment-dweller’s dilemma.