Gut health: Dr Chris George on how to improve microbiome Sign up for FREE health tips to live a long and happy life SUBSCRIBE Invalid email We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you've consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info What a person eats directly influences the make-up of bacteria in their gut, known as the microbiome, which in turn impacts your health and even your mental health. A healthy gut helps keep chronic diseases like heart disease and cancer at bay, and also can reduce inflammation, keep the brain healthy and help you maintain a healthy weight. This theory was further explored in Channel 4’s How Healthy Is Your Gut that noted two foods which should be reduced to help improve your gut health. Related articles Diabetes early symptoms: The 13 warning signs you …
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Piers Morgan health: Ex-GMB star suffering 21 days after Covid infection despite jabs
Coronavirus vaccine: First dose figures surpass 46 million Sign up for FREE health tips to live a long and happy life SUBSCRIBE Invalid email We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you've consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info No doubt in self-isolation, Piers Morgan quipped on Instagram: "Covid - day 21. Looking and feeling like Tom Hanks towards the end of Castaway. Need a Wilson." During the film Castaway, Tom Hanks – who stars as Chuck Noland, who is washed up on a deserted island – forms an emotional connection to a volleyball he names Wilson. Sharing a picture of himself looking worse for wear, a social media troll reposted the image of Piers, adding: "You've been banging on about getting jabbed. Related articles How vaccinated people spread Covid - new data exposes Delta threat …
World Health Organization Calls for COVID Vaccine Booster Moratorium until September
The head of the World Health Organization is working to increase vaccination rates in countries with minimal access before booster shots for COVID are administered globally Advertisement covid vaccine Credit: Getty The head of the World Health Organization is calling for a moratorium on administering COVID-19 vaccine booster shots until at least the end of September in order to ensure more initial doses are available to countries with minimal access. During a briefing on Wednesday , director-general of WHO Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus made the appeal to the "wealthiest countries," explaining that more than 80% of the 4 billion vaccines administered around the world have gone to high and upper-middle-income countries. Get push notifications with news, features and more. + Follow Following You'll get the latest updates on this topic in your browser notifications. "I understand the …
Deaf man didn’t know why his carers stopped visiting as he ‘hadn’t heard news about lockdown’
LONELINESS and isolation has been a growing problem for many of us over the past year, but the loss of face-to-face contact has been especially tough for deaf people. So charities have provided vital support – and some have remained open with social distancing to assist with day-to-day tasks. These include help with bills and letters, as people who have grown up using BSL as their first language may not be able to read written English well.” “We get a lot of people who come in with letters from the council or their insurance company, for example,” says charity worker Anna Pugh. “If you don’t use communication, you lose it,” she explains, stressing the difficulties the hearing-impaired community has faced, such as finding lip-reading impossible because of face masks. “And deaf people don’t have access to the news as hearing people do, so unless they see someone in person and find out the news from them, they may not know what’s happening.” How you could win big – and help …
Meet the youth football academy promoting equality and tackling bullying and racism
When the Khalsa Youth Football Academy started back in 1988, the aim was to address the under-representation of the Asian community in the sport – but it’s evolved into so much more than that. And now Khalsa, based in Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire, has had a real boost after securing funding for its Connecting Hope project from money raised through The Health Lottery. The newly launched Connecting Hope initiative will help a group of 14-to 18-year-olds in the local community learn the valuable skills they need to become mentors. “The incentive is to have a qualification that sits proudly on their CVs,” says co-founder Bal Singh, 49, “so it’s not just about football – it’s using transferable skillsets like effective communication and organising events.” How you could win big – and help others! Want to raise money to help your local community and be in with a chance to win a big jackpot? Why not play The Health Lottery ? There are five chances to win £25,000 in the …
‘We talk, we laugh, there’s singing and dancing’ – the hub that brought together an isolated community
Sunderland's African Caribbean Community Association got off to a flying start when it received £40,000 funding from money raised by Health Lottery North East and Cumbria. Since then, it has become the heart of this previously isolated community, providing chat, food and fun that brings people together. But its work goes deeper than that, giving its members a real voice in the locality. “We started the association in 2017 as we felt there wasn’t a cohesive unit of people of African heritage in Sunderland and South Shields,” explains project worker Lucky Pemu. “It gave us confidence to take part in city-wide events and we were accepted by the community in Sunderland and got ourselves integrated into social, political and cultural activities in the North East.” More than £120 million has been raised through The Health Lottery, supporting 3,200 grassroots projects across Great Britain – 200 of which are in the North East and Cumbria. And £157 million in prizes has been scooped by …
The ‘magical’ city farm saving lives in a community
Swansea Community Farm is, says manager Kate Gibbs, a “magical place” – and one that gives a warm welcome to volunteers aged from eight to 83. “It’s a place of peace and acceptance, a really safe space,” says Kate, who came to Wales’ only city farm 15 years ago as a volunteer. “People leave whatever’s going on in their lives at the gate and just work together to make a better space in the community.” Volunteers including people who have suffered trauma, ill health and mental illness, as well as asylum seekers – come to the farm to rebuild their lives and learn new skills, such as caring for the animals. It’s just one of 185 projects at the heart of local communities that Health Lottery Wales is proud to support. Every time you play, money raised goes towards charities to tackle issues such as health inequality, loneliness, mental health and food poverty. How you could win big – and help others! Want to raise money to help your local community and be in with a chance to win …
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‘It’s not your typical community garden’ – the space saving locals from loneliness and more
It was once a derelict piece of land in Walsall. Now transformed into Caldmore Community Garden, it is a beautiful urban oasis where all ages and cultures can come together and make friends. Support from Walsall Housing Group (whg) and Walsall Council made it possible. What’s more, funding from People’s Health Trust using money raised through Health Lottery West Midlands means the project has been able to extend its activities, with a full programme from a toddler group to its popular Men’s Shed. “It’s not quite your typical community garden,” says community development worker Anna Webster. “We’re not so much focused on growing things. Instead we see gardening as a way of bringing people together. We’re located in a very diverse neighbourhood, with a mix of Bangladeshi, Pakistani, South Asian and a growing number of Eastern European people, so we have to keep coming up with new ways to welcome and engage them.” These new ways are very popular, including a women’s group, Garden …
Weed-smoking mum gives kids mental health days off school as ‘we all need break’
A mum has emphasised the importance of giving children “mental health days”. Caitlin Fladager, from Vancouver, Canada, often speaks about the importance of taking care of your mind. In the past, the parenting blogger has discussed how legally smoking weed de-stresses her and “makes her a better mum”. And now, she’s spoken to her 625,000 followers about the importance of giving kids a “break from everyday life”. In a viral Facebook post, the 27-year-old wrote: “I could tell my six and eight-year-old desperately needed a mental health day. “A break from everyday life. A break from me saying ‘no!’ all the time. Just a break. Like we all need.” Caitlin continued: “So I booked a lake house, emailed their teachers, packed their suitcases, and off we headed for a couple days. “I bought them snacks I would always say no to. “I let them bring their Nintendo Switches inside a restaurant we were eating dinner at. “I let them stay up past their bed time, …
Fake COVID-19 certificate sales rise as health passes become mandatory
With COVID-19 certificates becoming mandatory around the world, some people are turning to social platforms like Telegram to buy fake health passes, at a cost of around €100. In just a few months, accounts selling photoshopped certificates that are being delivered via email have grown in number in Europe and around the world, triggering an increase in cyber-crime, experts at the cybersecurity company Check Point have said. “They can photoshop it and they can start selling it with appropriate information. Scammers and channels on Telegram are very responsive: they ask you all the questions, details, etc. Everything that you want to put on the certificate,” Oded Vanunu, the head of products vulnerability at Check Point Software Technologies, told Euronews. Italy, as well as other European countries, have introduced smartphone apps to verify whether a certificate is authentic or not, but that might not be enough. Since the beginning of the pandemic, the popularity of …
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