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Food (apparently not so) glorious food?
While I sit in my living room in a Christmas induced carbohydrate coma (with a digestive biscuit balanced on my left knee), I think back to a disturbing article I read before I entered the 4-day munching marathon that is Christmas. The article was reporting a study, conducted by researchers from Loughborough University,…
A Christmas clear-out and a forgotten memory
When I went home for Christmas this year I found a couple of old boxes in the loft that had been there since I was in school. Among the haul were several bottles of bubble bath, a Cosmopolitan from September 2002, and embarrassingly detailed letters from my friends about the boys we were either…
Can a £30 widget really get you drinking more water?
I stumbled across a review in the Telegraph the other day for the ‘Ulla Smart Hydration Reminder’. Ulla is a little plastic capsule attached to a band, which slips onto your water bottle. It blinks every 40 minutes if you aren’t drinking enough (the ‘optimal hydration interval’, apparently) and the only way to stop this…