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The Importance of a Good Night's Sleep for Your Health and Well-being

The Importance of a Good Night's Sleep for Your Health and Well-being

The Importance of a Good Night's Sleep for Your Health and Well-beingGetting a good night's sleep is crucial for maintaining optimal health and well-being. Sleep is not just a time of rest and rejuvenation, it is also a time when the body repairs and restores itself, and the brain consolidates memor
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Cholesterol and Colourful food

Cholesterol and Colourful food

Cholesterol and Colourful foodThere are many large-scale clinical trials that prove that lowering cholesterol reduces the risk of heart attacks and strokes. Cholesterol is a significant risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD) and should be considered alon
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Do you need compounded medicine?

Do you need compounded medicine?

DO YOU NEED COMPOUNDED MEDICINE?Compounded medicines are a mixture of drugs that create a medication for specific needs. Compounding allows us to customise individual solutions for your needs when readily available medicines cannot achieve this. There are so many examples of
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Fat at 50 Means Sick at 70

Fat at 50 Means Sick at 70

Carrying extra weight in your mid-life years means you are more likely to have major chronic disease and physical and cognitive limitations by the time you reach your 70s, according to results published in the British Medical Journal. Long-term research known as the Nurses Health Study showed
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Do you snore? Are you tired?

Do you snore? Are you tired?

Sleep apnoea affects 25% of Australian men and 9% of Australian women.The most common form is called obstructive sleep apnoea, where your airwaymay be blocked for 10 seconds to several minutes during sleep. Your brain runs low on oxygen and so triggers th
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Cold and flu – facts and fiction

Cold and flu – facts and fiction

Old wives tales and urban myths abound around the treatment of colds and flu. How do you sort out the facts from all the fiction?Sneezing and coughing is the only way infection is spreadFiction: Breathing in the expelled droplets from an infected person’s cough or sneeze will certainly expose you to
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