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Day: January 19, 2018

How to make the most of your cup of tea
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How to make the most of your cup of tea

    The latest news on that front is that it can make us more creative. In the journal Food Quality and Preference, Yan Huang, from the Psychological and Cognitive Sciences Department of Peking University, illustrates how his 50 subjects performed better when “trying to come up with a cool name for a noodle bar”, among other tasks, when given a cup of tea instead of a glass of water. As marvellous as this info is for the noodle bar franchising industry, the health and cognitive benefits of tea certainly don’t end there. We’ve all had the debate about how to make the tastiest cuppa. But what about the healthiest? Here are some tips: Use cheap, bagged tea Theanine, an amino acid, is at the core of how tea relaxes us. It is extraordinarily useful: good for anxiety, for hi...
Scientists discover a big health benefit for women who breastfeed
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Scientists discover a big health benefit for women who breastfeed

    Breastfeeding for six months could reduce type 2 diabetes risk Scientists have discovered a big health benefit for women who breastfeed after analysing the results of a 30-year study on over 1,200 women. It seems as if breastfeeding for six months or more may reduce your risk of developing type 2 diabetes, the team from US healthcare provider Kaiser Permanente's division of research has concluded. In fact, the team found that breastfeeding for six months or more cut a woman's chances of getting the disease by almost half (47%), compared to those who hadn't breastfeed at all. And, those participants who breastfed for less time than six months still had a 23% reduction in diabetes risk. We found a very strong association between breastfeeding duration and lower risk...
UK must pay for City deal after Brexit
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UK must pay for City deal after Brexit

    Emmanuel Macron has warned Theresa May the UK will have to pay into the EU's coffers in order to secure a Brexit trade deal on financial services. Speaking alongside the Prime Minister during his first visit to Britain since being elected, the French president insisted he was here neither to punish nor reward over Brexit. But Mr Macron appeared to stick to the stance of the EU's chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier, who has said a post-Brexit deal on financial services is unlikely, unless the UK pays into the Brussels budget and accepts the jurisdiction of EU judges. Outlining a choice for the UK, the French leader claimed Britain will have to opt for a relationship with the EU along the lines of that held by either Norway or Canada. Mr Macron spoke at a joint n...
Petrol and diesel ban should be brought forward
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Petrol and diesel ban should be brought forward

    The government may need to bring its 2040 ban on internal combustion cars forward to 2035 if it is to meet greenhouse gas emission targets, a new report has warned. According to the Committee on Climate Change (CCC), the government’s Clean Growth Strategy will not be enough to hit legally binding CO2 emission targets for the 10-year period from the beginning of 2023 to the end of 2032. As a result, the CCC’s latest report says the government should keep open the possibility that all car and van sales are battery-electric or hydrogen by 2035 five years earlier than the 2040 date to which the government has so far committed. The government hasn't yet clarified or even enshrined in law what exactly will be banned in 2040 after initially appearing to say that petrol an...
New Zealand prime minister announces she’s pregnant
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New Zealand prime minister announces she’s pregnant

    New Zealand’s prime minister announced on Friday that she is expecting her first child in June. Jacinda Ardern, 37, took office in October. Speculation swirled around whether she would start a family soon when she took over the leadership of her then opposition Labour Party last year. Ardern took to Twitter to announce that she and her partner Clarke Gayford were expecting a child, and that Gayford would become a stay-at-home dad. ‘We thought 2017 was a big year! This year we’ll join the many parents who wear two hats. I’ll be PM & a mum while Clarke will be ‘first man of fishing’ & stay at home dad,’ she tweeted. She said in a statement that she had asked Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters on Thursday to act as prime minister for six weeks after the bir...