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Happiness

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• Older = happier
• Happiness is infectious
• Get gardening to feel happier

 

Calm

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• Anxiety solutions
• Don't worry yourself sick
• Stress: what it does to your health

 

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• Brain games not all they're cracked up to be

• Brightening the lives of Alzheimer’s sufferers

• Calm on the home front

• Can you stop worrying?

• Cut calories for more memory?

• Daily cuppa may protect brain

• Daytime naps can boost your memory

• Dealing with sleep apnoea

• Defuse your rage

• Dementia: don't worry, be happy

• Depression: alternatives to drug treatment

• Does the whole world love a lover?

• Don't lose that loving feeling

• Don’t worry yourself sick

• Dream care homes

• Essential tips for carers

• Exercise to sharpen your wits

• Feeling smiles better

• Five ways to tackle SAD

• Happiness is infectious

• High anxiety: learn to stop worrying

• How friendship fight disease

• How to be happier

• How to beat snoring

• How to revive your love life

• Insomnia makes brain go on the blink

• Is chocolate good for the brain?

• Is love really a drug?

• Keep a cool head for a healthy heart

• Keeping your memory sharp

• Large waist size increases risk of Alzheimer’s disease

• Loneliness fear among older people

• Loneliness linked to Alzheimer's

• Marital strife increases health worries for women

• Mind over matter

• My story: caring for a loved one with dementia

• Nursing home blues: a survival guide

• OK computer?

• Older and happier

• Omega-3s may help conquer the blues

• One minute test for brain disease

• Persuading a parent to give up their independence

• Playing dirty

• Playing games for health

• Questions for care homes

• Relationship friends and foes

• Research shows herb helps fight depression

• Road rage

• Saga and Mind Fit

• Science of sagacity

• Sharpen up with memory training

• Short on confidence?

• Shut-eye boosts memory

• Sleep myths examined

• Sleepless in the UK

• Smoking - good reasons to stay stopped

• Smoking – stay stopped, one day at a time

• Smoking – your guide to giving up

• Smoking drug

• Smoking: Take the pain out of quitting

• Staying silent in rows is bad for the health

• Stress – what it does to your health

• Sweet smells mean sweet dreams

• Talking on mobiles addles drivers' brains

• The dementia time bomb

• The memory vitamin

• The sound of music

• Tired and emotional

• Too many distractions lead to memory lapses

• Too tired to drive

• Top 10 seasonal stress-busters

• Turn it on

• Twelfth Night can boost your brain power

• Understand your body clock

• Volunteers wanted

• Walk away from depression

• Wedded bliss is the key to dreamy sleep

• What to do when insomnia strikes

• What’s the treatment for depression?

• Why friends are good medicine

• Why scents may strengthen the memory

• Wine slows mental decline

• Worry guts

• Your brain: what you need to know

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