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March 2010

DNA test diet predictor
Talk deep, be happy
Controversial Palm oil
Over 50's on the move
The Taste of Memories

February 2010

Jungle Life
Amazon kayak journey
Dealing with cyberchondriacs
Rhubarb, rhubarb
Living with dementia
A Sojourn to St. Helena (Part II)
Napping brain benefits
The divorce industry
Modern classics baffle
Manicom's adventures
Silver surfers happier
Quest for a fulfilling life
Chocolate health benefits
Four day week proposal
A Sojourn to St. Helena (Part I)
An amateur hero
Climate scepticism rises
Genetic test for aging
The death of diesel?
A cure for osteoporosis?

January 2010

A Sojourn in Libya
Adventure on film
Overweight & living longer
Lake Bugatti worth £227,000
NASA's launches sun probe
Britains Pillbox defences
High as a skydiver
Haggis on the Wirral
Apple tablet launch
Kill or Cure: a session with el Brujo
Rincon de la Vieja adventure
Support a new adventure
Best French Festivals
Healthy green tea
Innovative business ideas
The last of the real-life adventurers
Making bone from wood
150 years of fish & chips
Heart beat gene discovered
Working retirement
Once in a blue moon find
Exercise can fight ageing
Love relived in an Austin 10
Big VAT bill for over 50's
An Englishman gets Cross of (in) Lorraine.

December 2009

Wild Adventures at Nagarhole
Sailing Titan
Argentinian dreams
Stem cell breakthrough
Moon makes money
Curandero on Guatemala
Magical mistletoe
Leptin and Alzheimer's
New anti-aging pill
It's better down south
Tiger attack!
Healthy Champagne
Baby faces live longer
The perfect mushroom
Putting the internet on TV
Beauty sleep aids
i-phone orchestra
Misleading comparisons
Flesh eating tomatoes
Apple wrinkle cure?
At home in the Barbican
Bordeaux biodiversity
Genders in danger
Lost at Sea

November 2009

70 and still biking
Inventing the Scrudle
Campari: the stylish classic
Meditation for the heart
Death defying future
Kangaroo Island adventure
Live healthy to avoid cancer
Shackleton's frozen whisky
The apple that doesn't rot
Device to beat insomnia
High in the Himalayas
The age-gap love taboo
Positive thinking project
Cocktails in danger!
Rare Austen letters
Europe's toughest trek
Soundtrack to Life on Earth
Fighting age in Queensland
Depression and processed food
The Internet hits 40

October 2009

A grizzly hunting tale
E-books boost library members
Still a hands on Dad at 101
Bringing back the buyers
Women save the economy
UK's tree-top tourism
Innovations in London
Green spaces "improve health"
Foods that fight old age
Food and Drink to Die For
Glorious mud in Costa Rica
Britain - worst place in Europe?
Living to 100 optimistically
Life splicing - work plus play
Danger trip on mobile sofa
Globetrotting dreams revised
Kiri's husky adventure
One man and his bike
Mediterranean diet is the best
Wildcatting Days

September 2009

Yoga on Peace Island
2010 - year of the travel deal
BBC walks on the wild side
The truth about tourism in Burma
Silver Surfers are online bargain hunters
Packing up and heading for the hills
Not all plain sailing
Portrait of 1845 polar explorer unveiled
Life insurance pitfalls
The fastest man to pedal the globe
Advance in prostate cancer research
Over 50 adventurer breaks balloon records
Over 60's may be immune to Swine Flu
Magical travels in Peru
Finally, a cure for ageing?
Maori man-eating bird lived
New life in old concrete
Fighting over 50 fatigue
Cami Confidential
The ultimate adventure
Dating lies online
Third man in Vienna
Genetic breakthrough in Alzheimer's cure
Better than barefoot
Caught in the Act

August 2009

Werner Herzog's Antarctica
Dame Vera Lynn's top hits
Endangered crocs new home
World's biggest online library
Britains national parks in danger?
Frank ‘El Ingles’ Evans, 67, the bull-fighting Briton
An apple a day
Blood-thinning drug could transform stroke treatment
Part II: An evening on the Putumayo
Walking in circles
Calling time on pint the glass
Gold rush fever in Oz
Return of the mighty Elm
We do like Mondays after all
Three peak challenge
An Evening on the Putumayo
In need of a little sleep
Canterbury to Tokyo by bike
The end of the printed word?
Beetroot juice 'boosts stamina'
A terrible adventure
Seeking ageing role models
Trapped by Experience
Symmetrical face means less chance of dementia
Secrets of the eastern Himalayas revealed
Climb every mountian
Summertime thirst quenchers
A "moving" adventure
6,000 miles and counting
High tea on Snowdon
New treatment for dementia
Hands off the haggis
BA in the red

July 2009

A short trip to Douglas
Pensioners say no to Sussex
Abbey Road 40 years on
After 15 years' foreplay, tortoise finally mates
The first men on the moon
More hydrating than water?
NHS backs acupuncture
Wishing a fond Farewell
Taking a swing at ageism
Mango tree bears fruit after 20 years
The scariest plane ride in the world
Secret of eternal youth
Sixties icon turns 60
Behind the scenes with Biba
Fish oil gives memory boost
Ryanair loses German court case
Dunwoody's great walk
Across the Zoji La
The smell of raw adventure
Palin's latest adventure
Gold mine or time-bomb?
Three cups of coffee a day...
High hopes for HIFU - the ultrasound breakthrough
Beer festival is drunk dry!

June 2009

Most haunted English heritage
Star gazing in July
Who’s really writing the reviews on TripAdvisor?
Senior yachtsmen’s epic sea adventure
Passport Please!
Hikers heaven in the Med
Stormchasing in the USA
Biodynamic wine-making
La Palanca
Ruins and Real Life
The death of the pearl trade
Saffron can protect sight
Safe and healthy travels
Best travel video of 2009?
Sugar-free & wrinkle free?
Pirates on the high seas
Fifty is the new forty
Boomers scoop best pensions
Better being bald?
Astronomical pursuits
US tourist survives adventure on Outback train
How Alzheimer's infects the brain
Earth from Above film shows damage to the planet
Cornwall and Lake District top destinations for Brits
Better off buying fruit
The book revolution
The Sting - Part Two
Always use sunscreen?

May 2009

Extremes at the ends of the earth
Gringo, Macho.
Hijacked, Part Two
The Sting
Cool summer cruising
France woos diners with cut in VAT
The Intrepid Fiennes finally beats Everest
Explorers told to pack their bags
English Wine Renaissance
Hijacked
Growing old in Britain
Help ease the pain
Less chance of Alzheimer’s with postponed retirement
A trip to the stars
Professional house-sitters
Wallabies are the new lawnmowers
Prison visits - for tourists
Lost in the Mountains
Remote Botswana
Open Prison
Adventures on Arenal
Three men in a bay
For Queen & Country...
Britons may have to work till 70
Revolutionary new Search Engine
Why France still rues the day we ruled the waves
Playwright demands meatier roles for older women
What's wrong with wrinkles?
Common sense returns
Grounded for good?

April 2009

The age of "Sageism"
A fond farewell from Bulgaria.
A good noght's sleep

March 2009

Sheep's Eyes
Beijing reopens Tibet for tourists
The reluctant grandmother
Geography Lessons
Twittering away our time?
Lost in translation
Fiji adventure
Gribble powered cars?
So why do we still smoke?
Over 60's travel rebellion
Earn on your second home
Scientist seeks origin of genius
Moon-watching in March
When lady luck smiles....

February 2009

No benefits found in multivitamin supplements
Dodging the scammers
Optimism is the cure
Off the beaten track
Baby boom.... and bust
To Dye or not to Dye
Revolutionary Honeymoon
Water Safari
The gale does not abate....
Hike in the Karoo Desert
Hello and Welcome

Controversial Palm oil

It is blamed for everything from deforestation to threatening the extinction of the orangutan, but palm oil is a vital source of income for many developing countries, the crop's producers say.

In Indonesia, the world's largest palm oil producer, where the plant provides work for three million people, the government is keen to promote the benefits of the crop.

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Over 50's on the move

Record numbers of the over-55s want to move abroad because they are fed up with Britain's soaring crime rates, its creaking economy and the rotten weather.

Research by the Foreign Office has revealed that just over four in ten of those approaching retirement are considering moving abroad.

Others are simply fed up with crime rates and are keen to flee the violence and antisocial behaviour which plague our streets.

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DNA test diet predictor

A simple DNA test may predict whether someone is more likely to lose weight on a low fat or a low carbohydrate diet, say US researchers.

The results from the small preliminary study of 101 women showed those on the best diet for their genes lost two to three times more weight than the rest.

The results are being presented at an American Heart Association conference.

Experts said the findings tied in with previous studies, but further work should be carried out.

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Talk deep, be happy

Having a profound conversation can boost happiness levels, but trivial chatter can be depressing, scientists say.

Psychologists investigated whether happy and unhappy people differed because of the types of conversations they engaged in.
 
Volunteers wore an unobtrusive recording device to monitor conversations with friends and colleagues for four days.

Researchers then listened to the recordings and identified them as trivial small talk or substantive discussions.

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