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Health: Are Students At Risk of Iron Deficiency?

University students are not often hailed as the heroes of healthy eating, but are poor dietary choices affecting students’ health much more than they realised? According to Slimming World, 65% of students described their eating habits at university as ‘quite unhealthy’ or ‘very unhealthy’ and such a diet can often have severe consequences. “I was excessively tired and out of breath whenever I walked,” Medicine … Continue reading Health: Are Students At Risk of Iron Deficiency?

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Health: Top 5 Tips to Help Improve Your Gym Diet

Make sure your buff gym body survives university with these simple, healthy tips to keep you in shape 1. Hydration As a student, life can be hectic and we’re constantly being told to make sure we stay hydrated, but for a strict gym goer staying hydrated is doubly important as your muscles are made up of 75% water. This can be sorted by simply adding … Continue reading Health: Top 5 Tips to Help Improve Your Gym Diet

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Myth Buster: Can Eating “Brainfood” Make You More Intelligent?

Is brainfood more than just a buzzword, and are there certain meals that can actually help your grey matter and give you the cutting edge for those all important exams? According to top nutritionist Kirsten Davies of The Food Remedy, the answer is yes.  It’s the last few weeks of term and deadlines are looming. The stress is mounting and the only thing on your mind … Continue reading Myth Buster: Can Eating “Brainfood” Make You More Intelligent?

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Orthorexia: The Healthy Food Eating Disorder Students Need to Know About

You start out with good intentions; you’re determined to stick to the healthy diet this time, swap out the sugary stuff for fresh fruit and veg. Then perhaps you cut out processed or refined foods, you linger in the supermarket aisles, scrutinising ingredients labels. You duck out of lunch with your housemates, scared there won’t be anything healthy enough on the menu. You begin to … Continue reading Orthorexia: The Healthy Food Eating Disorder Students Need to Know About

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Experience: Eight Substitute Snacks that will Help You Quit Smoking for Good

  Exams, coursework, deadlines… what does this lead to? You got it: STRESS. For some of us, the only way to quench that uneasy: “How am I going to write 2000 words tonight?” feeling, is… a cigarette. And if like me, you’re trying to quit smoking, trying to find that substitute can be one of the toughest challenges a student can face – especially during … Continue reading Experience: Eight Substitute Snacks that will Help You Quit Smoking for Good

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