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    BLOOD PRESSURE

    Salt assault
    Know where sodium is hiding and how it kills

    Off-the-cuff advice
    Tips to make sure your blood pressure reading is accurate

    Partners in crime
    If you have high blood pressure, health problems other than heart disease may be lying in wait.

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    OBESITY

    Do you know this man?
    He eats too much, exercises too little and is always stressed. Sound familiar?

    Hooked
    Some of us know our limits. Others don’t. But even fewer know why addiction happens in the first place.

    Abs or die
    How belly fat kills

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    YOUR PRIVATES

    The 20-Minute Total-Body Workout
    A time-efficient plan for a longer, healthier, stronger life

    10 GREAT HEADPHONES TO UPGRADE YOUR iPod
    You can do a lot better than factory-supplied earbuds, but with so many types and models, how do you choose the perfect set? Here’s how

    Shock To the System
    It's back to Rapture for the highly-anticipated Bioshock 2, and with a serious improvement in gameplay, this may be better than the original.

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    HEART DISEASE

    Salt assault
    Know where sodium is hiding and how it kills

    Partners in crime
    If you have high blood pressure, health problems other than heart disease may be lying in wait.

    It's in your blood!
    A new generation of blood tests screen for an array of heart-attack predictors. Here are 10 new measures of a healthy man.

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    CHOLESTEROL

    Hooked
    Some of us know our limits. Others don’t. But even fewer know why addiction happens in the first place.

    Abs or die
    How belly fat kills

    Fat attack
    For decades, we have been told that saturated fat clogs arteries and causes heart disease. But there’s just one problem. No one’s ever proven it

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    SLEEP

    5 steps to instant shut-eye
    Too tired to sleep? Follow our 60-minute countdown to instant knockout

    4 reasons why you need a nap
    Find out how the cost of lost shut-eye affects your health

    Extend your life by 10 years
    Is sleep really necessary?

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    MENTAL

    Do you know this man?
    He eats too much, exercises too little and is always stressed. Sound familiar?

    Fire up your energy levels
    25 metabolism-boosting quick fixes to get your bounce back

    Fighting the depression demon
    Some people call you competitive. some call you super fit. but a growing number of doctors may label you something else: depressed

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    DIAGNOSIS AND HELP

    5 ways to prevent a breakdown
    Keep your body functioning on all cylinders

    5 ways to add years to your life
    Follow these strategies to outrun the reaper

    7 best natural cures
    Nature’s medicine cabinet is jammed with healthy tonics. Here’s your guide to making sure you grab what you really need

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    DIGESTION & METABOLISM

    Fire up your energy levels
    25 metabolism-boosting quick fixes to get your bounce back

    Getting more fibre
    Need some help reaching your quota? Try these tricks.

    Speed metabolism, burn fat
    Rev up your metabolic engine and you'll lose weight all day long

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    CANCER

    Salt assault
    Know where sodium is hiding and how it kills

    Young man's cancer
    We're developing colon cancer at record rates. Fight back with this tumour-proofing plan.

    The spare-tyre syndrome
    Among the cabal of cancers that have it in for men, none may be as dangerous as non- Hodgkin's lymphoma, if only because we won't stop feeding it.

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    DIABETES

    Dodge diabetes
    A poor diet and too little exercise are key contributors to diabetes.

    Tips for better eating
    Do these simple things to make sticking to your diabetic diet easier

    Diabetes symptoms
    Many diabetes sufferers spend years being undiagnosed. Knowing the symptoms can save your life.

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    STROKE

    Salt assault
    Know where sodium is hiding and how it kills

    How to avoid a stroke
    This cruel affliction is a cause of severe disability and responsible for more than 20 000 deaths in South Africa each year. Here's how to slash your odds

    Strike out your stroke risk
    We've put a little more thought into what you can do to avoid it.

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    District 9 and Invictus got stuffed at the Oscars. What other great films were robbed of the Best Picture Oscar over the years?

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