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smoking

Crafty ways tobacco corporations keep the Middle East smoking

Jonathan Gornall May 30, 2022

Humans are notoriously bad at estimating risk. Most people fear flying far more than driving, even though the odds of dying in a car accident (1 in 107 in the US, for example) are far higher than perishing in an aircraft crash (about 1 in 11 million). What we are really good at, however, is self-deception. Take smoking. By now, just about everyone must surely know that tobacco is extremely bad for us in all

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Luke Coutinho, holistic health, resilient

‘The body is resilient every second of the day’

Ann Marie McQueen May 18, 2022

Luke Coutinho is a holistic lifestyle coach based in India and a frequent visitor to Dubai. He’s a passionate advocate of using balanced nutrition, adequate exercise, quality sleep and emotional detox to heal from just about everything that ails us. During his appearance on The Livehealthy Podcast, he talked about everything from how our spiritual beliefs are linked to our health to why we shouldn’t be so obsessed with fitness trackers to why the body is the essence of

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vitamin D

Why you need more Vitamin D

Natalie Hildon September 7, 2021

Social distancing, masks and hand sanitizer only go so far in the fight against Covid-19, not to mention a host of other chronic and lift-threatening conditions. There’s a reason why the department of health in Abu Dhabi earlier this summer urged residents to boost their vitamin D levels — even as the emirate remains one of the few health authorities in the world to be doing so. The recommendation came on the back of a

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coffee

Why coffee is good for you

Devinder Bains August 11, 2021

Don’t you just love it when something you may have considered a “vice” turns out to be good for you? Coffee has been on this upward trajectory for a while now, which just as well, as we drink a massive 1.4 billion cups a day across the globe. Although in the past, coffee consumption has been linked to heart disease, asthma and increased risk of stroke, many of those early studies have slowly been discounted. These

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cancer

Why don’t doctors like the new cancer tests?

Jonathan Gornall July 26, 2021

There is a basic truth that dictates survival rates for all kinds of cancer. Detect it early enough and, with appropriate treatment, a patient stands an excellent chance of surviving and living a normal life. The problem is that many cancers are tough to detect in their early stages and, because of a lack of definitive tests for most types of cancer, in most countries screening is carried out for only three of them: bowel,

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