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High cholesterol? Try a splash of rapeseed oil on your salad - Daily Mail 7th September 2009
Adding rapeseed oil to the diet may lower the cholesterol and blood fat levels of patients who have had high cholesterol from birth.
The metabolic condition, known as familial hypercholesterolemia, affects around 60,000 Britons. It can lead to an increased risk of developing atherosclerosis or furring up of the arteries, and heart disease.
Being bad is good for you: Playing blaring rock music and skipping the housework can actually boost your health - Daily Mail 1st September 2009
We've been told not to get angry - because it raises blood pressure. While fizzy drinks do nothing but rot your teeth and make you fat. But new research has shown that many of our bad habits may also be good for us. Here, VICTORIA LAMBERT presents the Good Health guide to when and why our bad habits can be positively virtuous...
Inside Medicine: Lipidologist - BBC Health News 5th July 2009
In a series focusing on medical specialties, the BBC News website meets lipidologist Dr Dermot Neely.
Lipidology is the study of fats which play a key role in the body.
'She is poisoned by her own food' - BBC Health News 30th May 2009
She has a rare metabolic condition called methylmalonic acidemia (MMA) and has to be fed a low protein diet, or her body becomes blocked up with toxins and poisoned.
MMA, caused by a defective enzyme, is one of over 1,300 metabolic illnesses affecting parts of the body. The best known of these is cystic fibrosis.
Working shifts can make you fat because it slows metabolism, claim scientists - The Telegraph 2nd March 2009
Shift work can make people fat, scientists have claimed, after they found that unsociable working hours slow the body's natural metabolism.
Fat gene mystery unravelled by scientists - The Sunday Telegraph 22nd February 2009
The mystery of how some people can eat and never put on weight while others struggle to shed a single ounce may have finally been solved by scientists.
Sprinting speeds up metabolism and improves health - The Telegraph 27th January 2009
Sprinting for just thirty seconds at a time on a regular basis could improve health by increasing the body's metabolism, scientists believe.
Muffin tops, beer bellies and the X factor you really don't want - Daily Mail 18th October 2008
The name Syndrome X sounds like something from a sci-fi movie - but it is a medical condition that is estimated to affect one in four of us.
Left unchecked, this condition can lead to type 2 diabetes, of which there are two million sufferers in this country.
So what is Syndrome X - and how can you tell if you have it?
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