Health
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Dr Munazzah Chou, Farnham Intermittent fasting is an eating pattern that alternates between fasting and eating and can involve fasting for a set number of hours each day or eating one meal a couple of days a week. Centuries before intermittent fasting was feted for its multitude of health benefits, including longevity, heart health and
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Dr Amtul Kafi Bhunnoo, London In recent news, Richard Holden, a Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) has sparked some discussions with remarks about potentially banning cousin marriages with the guise that it will promote public health. 1 However, this proposal crushes personal freedom, cultural identity and scientific understanding. Richard Holden’s words clearly stem from us
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Dr Sarah Waseem, London The campaign theme for International Women’s Day 2024 is Inspire Inclusion. (https://www.internationalwomensday.com/Theme) One of the most important ways this can happen is by helping women and girls make informed decisions about their health. Global health statistics for women make for grim reading. Life expectancy for women across the world varies, with
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Arooba Hameed, Newcastle As an immunology student, I remember the first time I studied viruses – gosh! I thought, a creation of Allah Almighty, resembling something out of a horror story; something like a villain hypnotizing every human on the planet. One such tiny virus has brought the world down for the past many months
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Amtul Kafi Yadullah Bhunnoo, London Due to COVID-19, the global economy has plummeted far worse than it did in the Great Depression [1]. However, this pandemic has only brought out the false pillars of the economy that it was standing on. Why have banks lowered the interest rate to nearly 0% in order to help
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Aroosa Akram, Slough There is no doubt that there is a serious pandemic still running rampant in the U.K. and the world, however this is not the first pandemic and unfortunately it’s unlikely it will be the last. There are ways to prevent a recurrence through measures like better personal hygiene and containing the first
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Navida Sayed, London All I could see was doctors and nurses in blue or green gowns, gloves, masks, eye protection and aprons, I hadn’t seen this in any of my previous hospital admissions. As I lay almost paralysed unable to move my body I gasped for air. I opened my eyes, my heart was racing
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Iffat Mirza, Raynes Park Seeing images of empty supermarket shelves up and down the country a few weeks ago immediately highlighted the individualistic view of some members of our society which, I must admit, was saddening. It certainly made me doubt how well as a society we would face the impending storm that was the
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Fezia Ul-Haq, London I was taken aback seeing a video clip of restaurant owners and farmers drowning out milk which they could not sell or use. [1] Covid-19 lockdown has had dire effects on businesses including the food industry. So much so, food wastage has seen an alarming rise. As difficult as the economic impact
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Iffat Mirza, Raynes Park, London Shakespeare’s Henry V famously proclaims: ‘But we in it shall be rememberèd— We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he today that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile,’[1] The need for unity in a time of crisis has never
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