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Drinking coffee may extend your life

Previous studies say it can help beat prostate cancer, and reduce therisk of heart disease – now US researchers reveal caffeine may help you live longer too. The study, which analysed the coffee-drinking habits of 400,000 men and women aged from 50 – 71 over a 14 year period, found ...

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Are you getting enough vitamin D?

It seems that although we love our sunburnt country, we’re not getting out in it enough – a Deakin University study of 11,000 Australian adults released earlier this year found one-third were deficient in vitamin D and almost three-quarters (73 per cent) had levels considered by many experts to be ...

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“My dad’s dementia changed my life”

“I moved in with Dad in February 2010, about a week after Mum died. Dad had been diagnosed with dementia about a year before. With his grief, at first it was hard to discern what was dementia and what was depression. He didn’t even want to live, so for the ...

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