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Anti-ageing secret
Rio Rosa Mosqueta oil is a pure,
unprocessed natural beauty oil that is
highly effective at reducing many of the
signs of ageing on the skin – including
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Catherine Deneuve and Helen Mirren
have used it to help hold back the years.
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vitamin study
and women. Specifically designed to help hairline and any area of the scalp that has Media speculation about the scientific
block the negative effects of DHT, the poor hair density; helping to prevent research produced headlines such as
“bad” form of testosterone; the synergistic additional hair loss enhancing hair growth ‘vitamin pills can increase risk of early
action of co-factor nutrients and for both men and women. death’ (Daily Telegraph) and ‘vitamins
may shorten your life’ (BBC) has been
Wine systematically
dismissed by leading industry figures as a
contaminated with pesticides
“selective rehash” of old research.
Leading nutritionist Patrick Holford
A report published by Pesticide Action commented: “This is the fourth time
Network (PAN) Europe claimed that many Bjekalovic and his group have reviewed
leading brand of wines on sale in the the effects on selected studies on
European Union are “systematically antioxidants. In this review, which is a
contaminated with pesticide residues.” rehash of their paper published last year
The discovery of pesticides in samples in the Journal of American Medical
of wine follows the publication of a Association (JAMA), they first excluded
report by the French Ministry of hundreds of trials, many of which had
Agriculture, which identified 15 pesticides positive outcomes, but had no deaths.
as being “systematically transferred from
You don’t need eight
Holford also questioned the
grapes into the wine during the wine-
glasses of water a day!
methodologies used by Bjekalovic and
making process”. his team.
The frequently heard recommendation
that people should drink eight glasses of
water a day for health and wellbeing is
scientifically groundless, say researchers
in the US.
The researchers suggest that people
who are anxious that they are not
drinking enough water are needlessly
worried. They say that tea, coffee, fruit
drinks and even weak alcoholic drinks can
contribute to the daily water total.
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