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Six easy swaps to help you avoid ultra-processed foods

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Melissa Hogenboom Stephen Parker (Credit: Stephen Parker)   Ultra-processed foods (UPFs) are in more foods you might realise. These tasty recipes will help you avoid them. When we buy ice cream, we tend to expect a delicious, fat-rich base – such as cream or milk – and some kind of flavouring, such as chocolate. But many of the versions for sale in my local supermarket also contain ingredients I would never add myself, and certainly don't have in my kitchen cupboards: guar gum, carrageenan, sunflower lecithin, carotenes.  These are typical ingredients found in ultra-processed foods (UPFs) – products which have been through more processing than usual, often on an industrial scale. Today it's widely known that diets rich in UPFs are bad for our health. They have been linked to a range of adverse health conditions, including obesity, cancer and type 2 diabetes, all of  which can lead to an early death . And yet, they are not easy to avoid. From supermarket bread to readymade...
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Penis a Barometer for men's Health - Why men must wake up to its warnings?

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David Robson   Erectile dysfunction can be an early warning of a heart attack, stroke, diabetes and dementia. It's time that patients and doctors alike started taking notice, according to researchers. You could describe erectile dysfunction as a silent epidemic. According to  multiple surveys , it afflicts more than half of adult men over 40. Few, however, are willing to discuss the issue with the people they love. If the topic does come up in conversation, it's often seen as the subject of banter – rather than an early warning sign of impending illness. Yet, according to reams of  new research , the penis is often a barometer of a man's overall health, with erectile dysfunction acting as a harbinger of many serious conditions, including diabetes, heart attack, stroke and dementia. It is a "canary in the coalmine", according to sexologist Emmanuele Jannini at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, who recently  edited a scholarly book reviewing the evidence to date ....
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