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Can a blood sugar monitor really help boost your health?

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Can a blood sugar monitor really help boost your health?

As more and more people without diabetes start to monitor their blood glucose levels, we take a look at what the evidence says about limiting your blood sugar spikes after eating

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A new understanding of how your blood type influences your health

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Illustration of sperm cells swimming. There is a worldwide decline in sperm counts, but we now have a better idea about how to fix the problem

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Sperm counts are down worldwide and researchers are discovering why

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Mind

Some brain regions shrink in pregnancy and regrow after the birth

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Olive oil is a key component of the Mediterranean diet

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We’re finally working out why the Mediterranean diet is so good for us

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Why do people get postnatal anxiety and how can we treat it?

Mind

Why do people get postnatal anxiety and how can we treat it?

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Health

Vegans who avoid ultra-processed food risk being protein deficient

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Environment

COP28: Why a climate adaptation deal is a ‘matter of life or death’

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Health

Genetic errors are behind more than two thirds of early miscarriages

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Two women choosing food in a cafe

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Why does weed give you the ‘munchies’? Here's what the science says

There may be several reasons why cannabis encourages people to eat, including the fact that the psychoactive compound in the drug affects the neurons that control hunger

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Life

Marmosets swap brain cells with their siblings

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Life

Bottlenose dolphins can sense electric fields with their snouts

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Health

Vagus nerve stimulation may help treat drug addiction

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Technology

Cooling system could replace air con and drastically cut energy use

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