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Dry January is a time when the “evils” of alcohol hover over us. The warnings about alcohol feel endless: it might increase your risk of dementia, it might cause cancer, it might kill you.But if that’s all true, why do so many “Blue Zone” centenarians drink red wine? Why does the American Heart Association say a small amount might reduce your risk of heart attacks? A

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Friendships, like all relationships, take lots of tending to stay healthy and supportive – but many of us are guilty of taking them for granted, especially during busier periods and times of big change in our lives. If you’ve noticed some of your friendships drifting lately, and even if you haven’t and want to prevent that from happening, implementing friendship “rituals” can be a saving grace. These rituals can help maintain your precious bonds and strengthen them, so you know you can count on one another for the long haul.

I awoke from an 11-hour surgery at University of California San Francisco Medical Center to find that my otolaryngologist had removed not only half of my nose but also half of my upper lip, muscle and bone from my right cheek, the shelf of my right eye, six teeth, and part of my hard palate.As I tried to shift my body in the bed, I noticed a tug pulling at me from my chest. I looked down to see that a long tube of tissue was suspended from my cheek and attached to my chest. I gasped!“Help!” I cried out to whoever was still in the ominously dark recovery room. A nurse appeared and calmly explained what had transpired during surgery. I learned that I had a full-thickness skin graft that would be needed to fill in the tissue that had been removed from my cheek, nose and upper lip.Seeing my face in a mirror at that moment would have been too much to handle. I took a deep breath as my mind raced with questions and waited u

-Recently, British Vogue reported on the rise of ‘curveball divorces’, with one 31 year old woman sharing that her husband left her only six months into their marrrriage, when she thought things were going well.She said: “I thought people who got divorced were in their 40s and 50s, with children to co-parent, and family homes,“I didn’t think that divorce happened to people who were just starting their life with someone. My world tota

The right age to give a kid a phone remains a hotly contested debate, but a new study is making the case for a specific milestone age as risky for a child to get a phone. The recent study, published in the journal Pediatrics, examined data from more than 10,500 children to determine how the age of smartphone acquisition was associated with health outcomes at age 12. The researchers found that children who had a smartphone by age 12 had a higher risk of depression, obesity and poor sleep than those who did not yet have one. The health risks of obesity and sleep problems were worse for children whose parents gave them a phone sooner than 12.  “For me, this paper and the findings do support delaying

Liz Truss on the Telegraph podcast.Liz Truss has been slammed online after she claimed that “the extreme left are mounting an armed insurrection” in America.The former prime minister, who only lasted 49 days in Downing Street after sparking an economic crisis, made the evidence-free claim on a Daily Telegraph podcast.Her comments followed the killing of protesters Renee Good and Alex Pretti by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers in the US.Truss said: “What [D

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