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Medication For Anxiety: Its Role In Your Mental Wellness Journey

Anxiety doesn't knock before entering your life. It arrives uninvited, transforming ordinary moments into overwhelming challenges and turning simple decisions into mountainous obstacles.

Anxiety disorders represent more than occasional worry—they constitute a persistent presence that can significantly impact daily functioning, relationships, and overall quality of life. While therapy, lifestyle changes, and coping strategies form the foundation of anxiety management, medication often plays a crucial role in helping individuals reclaim their mental wellness and navigate their...

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Add years to your life with small changes

Nuffield Health are today calling for the population in the South West to take note of health guidelines and make small changes to their lifestyle in order to reduce their risks of heart attacks and stroke. New figures out today show little understanding and a lack of concern, among people in the region, about the serious health implications of a poor diet – including excess salt and sugar – combined with a lack of exercise. Research from more than 230 people in the South West revealed a massive 85 per cent were unaware of the guideline for daily salt intake – 6 grams. One in three (33 per...

Dementia drop-in centre opens in Topsham

A new information dementia drop in centre has been opened at Topsham Pharmacy and is open on Thursdays between 10am and noon.

Run by volunteers, it is somewhere people to come to find out what support maybe available to them and generally answer any questions they may have on dementia.

Sallie Rutledge who runs The Mede and Seaward House (holiday and day support for people with dementia) in Topsham says: "There's little help at times for the carer and they can feel very isolated.

"We are hoping carers will come to us and tell us what they need....

Keep warm and well this winter

As the colder weather sets in, Devon’s health chiefs are providing some top tips to staying healthy this winter.

Devon County Council’s Director of Public Health, Dr Virginia Pearson, is reminding people of some simple ways to protect themselves, and their NHS, over the cold weather period.

“Most of us experience colds and flu-like symptoms at this time of year,” said Dr Pearson. “But for some, flu can be dangerous, if not potentially fatal, so it’s important that eligible people keep up to date with their flu jabs.

“Contrary to some recent news coverage, the...

Daily walk could reduce risk of early death

Physical inactivity may be associated with twice as many deaths as obesity, according to research.

The study, published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, found that just a modest increase in physical activity, such as a brisk 20 minute walk, could have significant health benefits.

Researchers, from University of Cambridge, studied data from 334,000 European men and women, and measured height, weight and waist circumference, and measured levels of physical activity using self-assessment.

Using data on European deaths, they estimated that 337,000 of the 9...

Slimming World leader meets Peter Andre

Penni Ball, who runs a Slimming World group at America Hall, Exeter every Thursday and Friday, was thrilled to get a chance to cuddle up to Peter when he co-hosted the Slimming World Awards with the organisation’s chair and founder Margaret Miles-Bramwell OBE.

Penni said meeting the Mysterious Girl and Insania singer was a wonderful way to round off what’s been a great 12 months for the Exeter (Pinhoe) Slimming World group, as well as the perfect way to kick start another successful year: “I’m so proud of all of the members of the Exeter (Pinhoe) group. They’ve lost a staggering...

Can you make a sugar swap?'

Devon health bosses are backing a new campaign which encourages parents to reduce the amount of sugar their children consume by making some simple swaps.

The new Change4Life campaign, which launched nationally today, and Devon’s Director of Public Health and Cabinet Member for Health and Wellbeing are encouraging people to make the change, as data reveals over 30% of children in their last year of primary school in Devon are already overweight or obese.

Dr Virginia Pearson, Devon’s Director of Public Health, said: “Too much sugar can lead to complications such as Type 2...

Help research into reducing alcohol consumption

Researchers at the University of Exeter are looking to recruit people who consume more than the recommended UK guidelines for safe drinking to take part in a psychology experiment targeted at understanding alcohol consumption.

The experiment:

Has been approved by the University of Exeter ethics committee.
Will involve a one off session that will take roughly one hour to complete.
Will be undertaken at the University of Exeter.
Is a computer based task.

In thanks for undertaking the experiment we can offer participants £...

Call for children to be taught lifesaving CPR

People in the South West believe children should be taught CPR in schools, according to new research by the British Heart Foundation (BHF).

The BHF polled over 2,000 people and found that 89% of people in the South West thought that children should leave secondary school knowing the life-saving skill.

More than 30,000 people have a cardiac arrest outside of hospital, but less than one-in-ten survive - partly because people don’t have the skills or confidence to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).

Survival rates in the UK are much lower than other countries...

Norovirus warning to hospital visitors

The Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital is urging anyone who has suffered from symptoms of the highly infectious Norovirus bug to stay away from the hospital until they have been free of the symptoms for at least 48 hours. Cases of Norovirus, which causes vomiting and diarrhoea and is more common in the winter months, have been rising at the RD&E over the Christmas and New Year period, placing extra pressure on hospital bed capacity at a very busy time for the hospital. At the current time the hospital has closed Lowman and Okement wards and isolated areas in three other wards – Torridge,...

Cigarettes ‘rot’ the body from the inside

New research reveals that poisons in tobacco smoke break down the body’s main systems, damaging bones, muscles, brain, teeth and eyes.

Public Health England (PHE) have launched a powerful new campaign to highlight how smoking damages the body and causes a slow and steady decline in a process similar to rotting.

The campaign starts as a new expert review commissioned by Public Health England highlights the multiple impacts that toxic ingredients in cigarettes can have on your body. While many smokers know that smoking causes cancer and harms the lungs and heart, the new...

Health & Beauty

Medication For Anxiety: Its Role In Your Mental Wellness Journey

Add years to your life with small changes

Dementia drop-in centre opens in Topsham

Keep warm and well this winter

Daily walk could reduce risk of early death

Slimming World leader meets Peter Andre

Can you make a sugar swap?'

Help research into reducing alcohol consumption

Call for children to be taught lifesaving CPR

Norovirus warning to hospital visitors

Cigarettes ‘rot’ the body from the inside

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