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What are the health benefits of drinking cranberry juice?
© TheDeliciousLife
Do you have a burning sensation you should be drinking cranberry juice? :-)
It’s an old wives tale — drink cranberry juice to cure a urinary infection. But is it actually true?
Well, sales are on the up and up. Seems the humble cranberry is in fashion at the moment and new products are appearing all the time… Read more
Health and longevity secrets of the okinawans
© Karen Walzer
Wouldn’t it be great if we had some really healthy role models?
People who live the healthiest, happiest lives so that we can look at them with soft focus and say “I want to be like that too?”
Well we can! There are lists of the healthiest nations in the world…
Japan usually tops these lists but actually, above Japan is the little island of Okinawa. It’s only a teeny dot on the world map…
The healthiest people in the world?
Okinawa is a lush subtropical island in the Pacific Ocean, made famous — at least in my mind — as the home of Mr. Myagi in The Karate Kid :-)
It has more people over a hundred years old than anywhere else on earth — as a percentage of the population. Well, no-one wants to live to be a centenarian if the last thirty years of their life is spent in miserable declining health… Read more
