Category: Lifestyle
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C-section babies 40% more likely to develop Asthma
According to a Danish study, babies born via C-section are more likely to be hospitalised more frequently and develop immune disorders such as asthma, allergies and diabetes. The exact cause of this isn’t clear, and the operation itself is not likely to be the direct cause of these effects, so what could it be? Recent…
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New Years Resolutions
Achievable Resolutions Not a ‘New Year New Me’, more of a ‘Me with some improvements’, set of resolutions. I know that if I set myself a goal which is too far away from my current lifestyle, I’ll be setting myself up for failure and disappointment. So I’ve got a couple of resolutions which, hopefully, are…
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A Poem For My Grandma
My grandma died a year ago today, and in the days after her death I wrote this poem, kind of by accident. I woke up one morning with the first few lines in my head, then spent the next 2 days bent over my notebook writing the rest. I ended up reading it out at…
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Are cocktails giving you brain damage?
Well yes, they are actually. Do I still love them? Yes, they’re pretty and yummy. This post is about increasing awareness rather than personally condemning everyone that drinks (myself included) and just hopefully inspiring people to ask a few more questions and take the issue a little bit more seriously. One quick comment before I…
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Affirmations – learning to thank ourselves
I think we all need reminding sometimes to thank our bodies for all the work that it does. It’s easy to get caught up in minor details about your self that you don’t like, details that no-one notices but you, and to beat yourself up about things that actually don’t matter in the scheme of…
Sophie Victoria Manley 