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And a cheerful World Tuberculosis Day! Tuberculosis itself may not be the cheeriest of topics, but the existence of the BCG vaccine certainly is.
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In today’s email we cover another reason to enjoy the Mediterranean diet, HIIT, and microplastics.
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Today’s Main Feature
Another Reason To Enjoy The Mediterranean Diet!
The Mediterranean diet just keeps on delivering stacks of benefits:
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Getting By On Just Four Hours Of Sleep?
Why do some people need less sleep than others?
There’s a gene for that:
How To Do HIIT (Without Wrecking Your Body)
High-Intensity Interval Training, henceforth “HIIT”, is a well-researched and well-evidenced approach to exercise that gives much more powerful health benefits (and some benefits that aren’t offered by other kinds of exercise at all).
It doesn’t have to be as scary as it sounds:
Watch and Learn
Three Surprising Ways Microplastics Can Enter Your Body
How many are you and your family subject to?
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