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March 4, 2023 Health & Fitness / News

Half of World’s 8bn People Will Be Overweight by 2023: Report

A new study projects the majority of the 8 billion global population will either be overweight or obese by 2035, with nearly 2 billion obese.

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February 26, 2023 Health & Fitness / News

Drinking as the New Smoking

Ireland, famous for boozing, is about to slap health-warning labels on bottles of wine and other alcoholic products, stoking outrage.

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August 28, 2022 Commentary / Health & Fitness / Travel

Flying on Fumes

Obesity rates are soaring, but the good news is that toxic foods like meat and dairy may be on the way out, saving health and the planet.

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June 19, 2021 Health & Fitness / Interview

‘Transcendental Meditation Is for Everyone, Not Just Celebrities’

Dr Gemma Beckley is a director and teacher with The Meditation Trust, a British charity working to make Transcendental Meditation (TM) — which originated in India and gained fame in

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May 23, 2021 Health & Fitness

The Joy of Running

By William J. Furney I became famous in and around my village in Ireland in recent years for running along its scenic country roads; people stopped me in shops and

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May 2, 2020 Interview

‘Lockdown Is Working, But There’s a Huge Cost’: Immunology Expert

By William J. Furney The latest in a family of coronaviruses to afflict humankind has plunged the world into deep crisis and lingering uncertainty of a kind not seen in

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August 3, 2019 Commentary

It’s Time for a Global Food Revolution 

By William J. Furney What’s the essential, absolute best diet for people? No one seems to know. Is it meat? Just plants, maybe? Or nuts or fish or a combination

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August 19, 2018 Commentary

The Diet Delusion

By William J. Furney If you’re on a plane and your tray-table won’t come down because it’s perched at a perilous angle on your enormous gut, wouldn’t it be a

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