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Coffee and your genes

Are you a coffee drinker? In a world that has a million lines of demarcation and separation coffee drinking divides us neatly down the middle; you are either a coffee drinker or you are not (and neither camp really understands the other). Within the coffee drinking fraternity of course, there are further shades of grey […]

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Cricketers need water

Cricketers perform better when properly hydrated. Cricket is a largely inexplicable game to the uninitiated. Although the rules and aims of the game remain obscure one thing is clear to even the least cricket-savvy observer; cricket involves lots of standing around, often in the sun. Cricket-philes (self-dubbed “cricket tragic”) will know that fast bowlers who […]

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Mediterranean memory

A Mediterranean style diet can help maintain your memory and cognitive function. Memories can be anything from “misty and water-coloured” to “golden” but whatever hue your memories may be you want to keep them. “Memory” is a term that we use colloquially to represent our cognitive function (because saying, “Oh, my cognitive function just isn’t […]