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Winter Sources of Vitamin D
Without sunlight, our skin can't create its own vitamin D. Keep your skin and bones healthy over the winter by eating sources of vitamin D such as lettuce, dates, eggs and cottage cheese.
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Best Halloween Movies to Watch on Amazon Prime Video
I decided to do an experiment using data from Amazon Video and Rotten Tomatoes to see if I could objectively work out the top ten horror films available this month on Amazon Prime Video.
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Oranges, Honey and Echinacea Tea
Can we really save ourselves from catching a cold? Day one back teaching and I’m in a stuffy room full of snuffles, smothered coughs, and startled sneezes. And that’s just the teacher training day. I make a mental note to pick up some echinacea tea on my way home to ward off the inevitable cold I’m going to catch. But my head fills with new deadlines and specification changes and I forget. A week later I’m snuffling with the rest of them. I curse myself for not taking more care to avoid getting ill so early in the term, but would it really have made any difference if I’d bought…
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10 Common Fixes for Fashion Emergencies
)ur relatively minor clothing mishaps can be awkward and cause us some embarrassment and anxiety. Luckily, there are some easy and accessible items you can use to deal with most common fashion emergencies.
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Your Fitbit: Friend or Foe?
Wearable pieces of tech are motivational and fun, but there are issues of accuracy and privacy that we’d rather ignore. Writing is ultimately a desk job. Unless we install a treadmill in front of a stand-up desk, the only real movement we do on the job is slouching off downstairs to make tea or fetch a biscuit. Freelancers have an advantage: We can just decide to go for a run halfway through the morning if we feel like it. While writing full-time in a ‘real’ job these last few months, in an actual office with air-conditioning, it wasn’t so easy to maintain any kind of fitness routine. I walked to…