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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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Middle aged woman in a kneeling-meditation pose in a brightly lit studio. She is wearing red leggings and a white t-shirt. There are two windows behind her with bright sunshine shining through them, with white wispy curtains open, illuminating the room. She is kneeling on an olive green mat, which sits on a wooden floor.

An unexpected way to slow ageing

Research shows that compassion-kindness based meditation can slow the rate of telomere attrition (a reliable indicator of ageing).

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4 people in their 20s and 30s running, coming towards the camera. There's a man slightly in front and three women just behind - one to the left of the man and two to the right of him, from camera perspective. They're all wearing sports gear and looking happy.

The Surprising Science of Exercise (and why it’s good news)

Researchers at the University of Sydney found that just three bursts of intense activity a day, each lasting about one minute, reduced the risk of death from cardiovascular disease by almost 50%.

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Woman with light brown hair with her eyes closed taking a sniff of an essential oil. She has the bottle in her left hand and holds the dropper to her nose with her right hand. She is wearing an olive green top. The background is blurred out, but it's a well lit room with what looks like plants in the background.

Why Aromatherapy Works: The science of smell

There’s a well-identified link between smell sensitivity, memory, and cognition. Studies show that smell training impacts the brain and improves memory and cognition.

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