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WellBeing columnist Alexx Stuart chats denim and why you should get curious about how your jeans were made.

Vitamin D supplements do not protect against pregnancy-related hypertension and pre-eclampsia.

Dogs are capable of understanding your emotions behind the expressions on your face.

Biophilic design encourages us to bring nature and its therapeutic benefits into the places where we dwell most of the time: our homes and workplaces.

Daily fasting is an effective weight loss method which improves metabolic health.

Whispering can trigger a response which causes the brain to tingle, with subsequent benefits for both mental and physical health.

WellBeing gardener Jackie French suggests Earth-friendly garden pest-control methods.

Replacing potatoes or rice with pulses can lower your blood glucose levels by more than 20 per cent.

Marriage may protect against the risk of developing cardiovascular disease and influence the risk of death from this disease.

Excessive drinking in adolescents interferes with the activity of brain cells needed for sustaining short term memory.

Older adults can mitigate the influence of genes on obesity risk by exercising.

Climate-related disasters resulting in a significant number of people being injured strengthens religiosity but economic damage has the opposite effect.