• Childhood cancer survivor reunites with ‘life-changing’ nurse 30 years later
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    Childhood cancer survivor reunites with ‘life-changing’ nurse 30 years later

    Liz Brown, a 43-year-old mother of three from East Riding, Yorkshire, was diagnosed with aggressive osteoblastoma, a rare form of bone tumour, when she was 14 years old. Ms Brown received the diagnosis having woken up paralysed on her 14th birthday. Ms Brown was admitted to Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge in 1989, where she was told that she shouldn’t expect to survive into adulthood.

  • Should Kim Kardashian be straightening five-year-old North’s hair?
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    Should Kim Kardashian be straightening five-year-old North’s hair?

    Kim Kardashian has caused controversy by straightening her young daughter’s hair. Kim Kardashian has found herself at the centre of controversy after straightening five-year-old daughter North West‘s hair, opening up conversations about black hair, identity and mum-shaming. Days later, the mother and daughter pair were snapped out again, this time with North wearing her newly-straight hair down.

  • Gaslighting: What is it and how can it change a victim's perception of reality?
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    Gaslighting: What is it and how can it change a victim's perception of reality?

    You are constantly second-guessing yourself, your confidence is shot, and you are questioning your perception of reality. Google searches of the word have gradually crept up in recent months, and the tactic is incredibly common according to Penny East, a spokeswoman for the charity SafeLives told The Independent. Indeed, to an outsider, the perpetrator may appear to be the perfect, caring partner,” Sandra Horley CBE, chief executive of Refuge told The Independent.

  • Love Island fans express increasing concern over Alex’s sunburn
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    Love Island fans express increasing concern over Alex’s sunburn

    Dr Alex George has become a firm favourite among Love Island viewers for his endearing attempts to find love in the villa. Many have expressed increasing uneasiness over Alex’s sunburn, which appears to be worsening as the show progresses. If a person sustains sunburn, there are a number of measures that they can take to ensure that their skin doesn’t become any more damaged than it already is.

  • Elle Macpherson under fire for 'beach body' summer weight loss advice
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    Elle Macpherson under fire for 'beach body' summer weight loss advice

    The supermodel, 54, who became known as “The Body”, made the comments in a segment titled “Elle Macpherson’s Beach Body Secrets” on This Morning on Wednesday. “Summer’s coming up and I too am getting ready for summer body,” the supermodel said. “Coming up to summer, I will limit the bread intake, rice, you know, cream… Anything white,” Macpherson said, going on to explain how she sometimes skips dinner in favour of a shake.

  • Blue Ivy is all of us when watching our parents get frisky
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    Blue Ivy is all of us when watching our parents get frisky

    A new video from Beyoncé and Jay Z's concert shows the six-year-old cringing at her parents

  • Here’s Why Princess Eugenie’s Wedding Is Going to Be Seriously Uncomfortable for Meghan Markle
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    Here’s Why Princess Eugenie’s Wedding Is Going to Be Seriously Uncomfortable for Meghan Markle

    Another royal wedding is upcoming, and Meghan Markle is getting an invite. Here's why she may not want to go after all.

  • How giving up sugar can help cure anxiety, according to woman who tried it
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    How giving up sugar can help cure anxiety, according to woman who tried it

    In 2017, researchers in Ireland decided to explore whether the gut microbiome could be linked with anxiety disorders, coming to the conclusion that there may in fact be an association between the two. When New York Times bestselling author Sarah Wilson decided to try eliminating sugar from her diet, she hoped that it would help alleviate the inflammation in her thyroid caused by Hashimoto’s disease, an autoimmune condition that left Wilson severely unwell on a daily basis. “We now know that inflammation causes all of the contemporary metabolic diseases.

  • Are you a functioning alcoholic? Know the signs
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    Are you a functioning alcoholic? Know the signs

    We all know that as a society, we drink too much. There’s always a reason to drink and there are always people encouraging you to do so.

  • Women share their surprising pregnancy symptoms
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    Women share their surprising pregnancy symptoms

    Who knew dogs behaved differently around pregnant women?!

  • New parents get less than five hours sleep per night, study claims
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    New parents get less than five hours sleep per night, study claims

    New parents will get just four hours and 44 minutes of sleep in an average night during the first year of their baby's life, it has emerged. The study also found sleep deprivation can take an emotional toll on relationships, with the average new-born waking three times a night when they first arrive home. More than two thirds of British parents believe they have got into arguments with their partner purely as a result of their baby’s poor sleep habits.

  • Living in a fast-paced city is key to happiness, research claims
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    Living in a fast-paced city is key to happiness, research claims

    While urban environments are sometimes associated with greater levels of stress and anxiety, keeping yourself occupied on a daily basis has also been linked to greater levels of life satisfaction, as chartered mediator Dr Jeanette Bicknell explained. “Among individuals in a society, busyness - or the feeling of busyness - seems to be an important factor in wellbeing,” she wrote in a blog post on Nautil. Dr Bicknell cited a study undertaken by Robert Levine from California State University Fresno and a team of researchers that investigated the pace of large cities from 31 different countries.

  • Children could face social media curfew enforced by government
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    Children could face social media curfew enforced by government

    Children growing up in today’s digital age have grown accustomed to being surrounded by all sorts of digital devices on a daily basis. With one in four children under the age of six owning a smartphone, it’s easier said than done for parents to monitor the amount of time their children spend glued to a screen. Elizabeth Denham, information commissioner, is going to be overseeing the introduction of a new code that could force social media platforms to alter their settings for their younger users.

  • Dawson's Creek actor praised for sharing graphic home birth photo
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    Dawson's Creek actor praised for sharing graphic home birth photo

    The actor and his wife recently welcomed their 5th child.

  • Mum sparks debate over whether it's ok to leave children unattended in cars
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    Mum sparks debate over whether it's ok to leave children unattended in cars

    "Is this really irresponsible?"

  • Fitness influencer criticised for promoting 'extremely dangerous' weight loss pills
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    Fitness influencer criticised for promoting 'extremely dangerous' weight loss pills

    A fitness influencer with 13 million followers has been criticised for promoting “extremely dangerous” weight loss pills that claim to “allow you to cheat on your diet.”

  • Pollen count set to reach 12-year high: Here's how to deal with hay fever
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    Pollen count set to reach 12-year high: Here's how to deal with hay fever

    Pollen levels are set to reach a 12-year high this week, according to the Met Office. The unusually high pollen count has not reached this level since 2006. One in five people in the UK suffers from hay fever, 95 per cent of whom are affected by grass pollen.

  • Expectant mother reveals dismay as no-one turns up to gender reveal party
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    Expectant mother reveals dismay as no-one turns up to gender reveal party

    An expectant mother has revealed her devastation after preparing a gender reveal party, only for none of her guests to turn up. The popularity of “gender reveal parties” to announce the sex of a baby is an American trend that’s been gaining traction in the UK in recent years. While some people view the notion of a gender reveal party as a strange phenomenon, others enjoy taking the opportunity to celebrate their pregnancies in a slightly eccentric way.

  • Woman told she’s pregnant while having surgery to find out why she’s ‘infertile’
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    Woman told she’s pregnant while having surgery to find out why she’s ‘infertile’

    Doctors were shocked after discovering that a woman was five-weeks pregnant - just after they'd put her under general anaesthetic and were preparing to perform keyhole surgery to discover why she couldn't conceive. Tia Reed, a 19-year-old from Birmingham, was diagnosed with endometriosis in August 2017 having suffered from painful periods throughout her adolescence and thought she was infertile. When someone has endometriosis, cells similar to the ones found in the lining of the uterus also appear in other places around the body, breaking down and bleeding on a monthly basis.

  • Chrissy Teigen uses breast pump en route to fancy dinner in refreshingly real selfie
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    Chrissy Teigen uses breast pump en route to fancy dinner in refreshingly real selfie

    For the model and author, nursing a newborn baby means breaking out the breast pump in the car — even on date night.

  • How living in violent communities can affect children’s behaviour
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    How living in violent communities can affect children’s behaviour

    How does seeing violence and destruction on that scale affect children’s mental health – and the risk of them becoming violent themselves? Although riots are an extreme form of public disorder, exposure to community violence is a common experience for many children. In the most high-risk areas – urban areas with high levels of poverty – up to 90 per cent of children have been exposed to some level of community violence.

  • Hay fever: How to combat the symptoms
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    Hay fever: How to combat the symptoms

    With pollen levels set to reach a 12-year high this week, hay fever sufferers may struggle to spend time outdoors without their symptoms flaring up. As lovely as the weather may seem as spring comes to an end, the approach of summer means one thing and one thing only - hay fever season has officially arrived.

  • Mother reveals struggle of having 15-year-old son diagnosed with ‘gaming disorder’
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    Mother reveals struggle of having 15-year-old son diagnosed with ‘gaming disorder’

    A mother has spoken out about her teenage son’s debilitating addiction to video games, after spending three years trying to have his condition officially recognised by the NHS. Kendal Parmar, a mother of five from North London, revealed that watching her 15-year-old son gradually become more reliant on gaming during his adolescence has been a huge struggle. “Every moment he’s awake, he wants to be on a game,” Ms Parmar told The Telegraph.

  • Could you forgive your partner for having an 'emotional affair'?
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    Could you forgive your partner for having an 'emotional affair'?

    Is an emotional affair infidelity?

  • Women who wake up early less likely to develop depression, study claims
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    Women who wake up early less likely to develop depression, study claims

    Women who describe themselves as “early risers” are less likely to develop depression, new research claims. A study of more than 32,000 women published in the Journal of Psychiatric Research found that those who are naturally inclined to wake up early are at a lower risk of the mental illness due to greater daylight exposure. Researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston examined the links between mood disorders and chronotype i.e.