Food plays an important role several times every day in everyone’s life. However, most people think about food only when hungry; in our society, we tend to think about food three times a day at mealtimes, with three or four extra times thrown in for snacks. But a dieter tends to think about food all
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As a child, we didn’t have foodie treats in the house. A family of five, we sat down together to eat three well-balanced meals a day, Christmas was the exception. The arrival of the Christmas food hamper (paid for in instalments over the year) was the cause of much excitement containing all manner of goodies,
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The aims of these quick challenges are to encourage you to make small changes that could have a big impact on your health and happiness. Today’s challenge is to do something pleasurable. Recent research* suggests that eating pleasurable foods (even healthy ones!) or having sex could reduce stress by inhibiting anxiety responses in the brain.
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