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Photo of cooking ingredients on a worktop with a person stirring a glass salad bowl of salad. On the worktop there's garlic, onions, mushrooms, broccoli, spinach leafs, olive oil, sweetcorn, carrots, tomatoes, broccoli, yellow and red peppers, as well as herbs in plant pots. The image is brightly lit and colourful.

Cooking Once a Week Could Protect Your Brain

Wellness advice often focuses on what we put on our plates – the ingredients – but new research suggests we’ve been overlooking the role of how those ingredients came to land on our plates in the first place.

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partially snow-capped mountain ranger, looking over the top of a canopy of clouds. The sky is light blue in the background.

The Emotion that Silences Overthinking

Research suggests that experiences of awe – moments when we encounter something vast or beautiful – can calm the brain systems associated with rumination and self-focused thinking.

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Girl in her 30s with dark wavy hair making a curious face and looking up with her eyes and closed mouth to the top right. She has her lips pursed and pointing them up in the same direction as her eyes. She is wearing a while blouse and the background is a bright mustard-yellow.

Turn Anxiety into Curiosity

Curiosity reframes the unknown as an opportunity instead of a threat – both neurologically and psychologically.

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Young woman relaxing at home drinking tea from a large pale blue cup. She sits at the window and the sun is shining. Her eyes are closed as she savours the quiet. She has long, dark brown hair, and is wearing a peach coloured top. She is sitting on a comfy sofa.

Why Your Brain Needs Silence

Just as muscles need rest time after a workout – to recover and strengthen – the brain needs rest after mental stimulus. And one of the ways to rest it is with silence.

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