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Exeter great-grandmother announced as final Nominate A Smile Winner!

A 92 year-old grandmother from Devon has been declared the fourth and final winner of Nominate A Smile 2019.

Pam Timson, a stroke-survivor and all-round star, has been putting smiles on the faces of those around her for the best part of a century and is showing no signs of stopping anytime soon!

Born in London Paddington in 1927, Pam initially worked for London Transport as an Accounts Clerk before joining Vispring to make aeroplane wings during World War II.

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Five surprisingly effective ways to cure social anxiety

Curing social anxiety is one of the easiest things that you can do, and it is much simpler to do when you are using the right products. You could turn to many different remedies and products that will change how you approach your life. You could use these products and ideas that will change how you handle yourself. Your body and your mind changes if you are trying to relieve your anxiety on a daily basis, and you might want to do something that is good for your overall outlook on life.

1. CBD Oil

A festival of yoga music and food

A grass-roots celebration of yoga, movement, music and food takes place in the West Country next week.

Yoga Hub Fest promises to be jam-packed with all things that make you feel good.

Organiser Jeanette Phillips said: “Yoga has been expanding minds long before Woodstock. We believe that yoga shouldn't be a practice confined to a rectangular mat, our aim is to breakdown yoga barriers and to inspire new ways of moving the body and mind.

New campaign to raise awareness of organ donation law change

NHS Blood and Transplant launches the year-long national campaign, ‘Pass it on’, to increase awareness and understanding of the organ donation law change, which comes into place next year, across England.

From spring 2020, all adults in England will be considered as having agreed to donate their own organs when they die unless they record a decision not to donate or are in one of the excluded groups.

Ways to Start a New Life after Recovery

Withdrawing from drug addiction is a complicated process. It requires a lot of patience, support, and willpower to do away with a life that revolved around alcohol and drugs. However, starting a new life after recovery is way much trickier. As many addicts would say, it feels like stepping out of a cab and joining a different world. Here are ways you can step back into the world after dropping drugs and live a healthy lifestyle.

1. Avoid bad company

What is general fitness?

How one defines it? What is YOUR definition of it?

According to the CDC, physical fitness is the ability to do tasks with alertness and vigor, without fatigue and with enough remaining energy to pursue recreational activities. Now compare your definition with this one. Do both of them match, or is your definition a mile away from what the CDC is implying?

5 popular athletes who battled addiction and came back stronger

Over 160 million people worldwide suffer from alcohol or substance addiction. Professional athletes are no exception to that number.

With a high-profile career comes high-intensity temptation.

But, as these athletes show, you can come back from substance abuse. Through addressing your addiction and getting help, there is hope.

Ready for some big league inspiration? Here are five popular athletes that came back stronger after addiction.

1. Josh Hamilton

Alopecia is the terrible enemy that today has a method to be defeated

Alopecia is the medical term for baldness. This disorder affects 60% of males and 30% of women, it is something that can happen to any age and there can be a number of causes. Some people are suffering from alopecia because of their father or mother, or because of some medications they are taking. Alopecia or hair thinning could be caused by hormonal problems, excessive stress or existing disease, but hair loss is no longer a disorder one lives forever. Modern technological progress in medical treatment means that there are now several ways we can tackle the problem.

Xanax effects: Detoxification and withdrawal

Xanax is a prescription drug for treating panic and anxiety disorders. Alternatively called alprazolam, Xanax is from a category of drugs called benzodiazepines. It is the fastest acting benzodiazepine. Once it is taken, it takes the shortest time to produce euphoria. So, it is extremely easy to take a bigger dose than recommended or take it longer than needed. Once you become dependent on Xanax, it will be difficult to stop taking it without suffering from different withdrawal symptoms.

Older adults cut drinking in half with Devon-based programme

People who took part in Devon’s Drink Wise, Age Well programme cut the average amount of alcohol they drink on a typical drinking day by half from 15 units to 7. They also reported reducing the number of drinking days per month from 28 at initial assessment to 13 upon discharge from the programme.

The National Lottery Community funded programme was first established in 2015 in response to 1increasing alcohol harm in the over 50s, with initial research showing that older adults were facing particular challenges when trying to get help with alcohol problems.

Devon’s prescription for a naturally healthy lifestyle

People in Devon are being encouraged to get active this May and take steps towards a more naturally healthy lifestyle.

Enjoying Devon’s beautiful environment can have huge benefits for your wellbeing. There are lots of ways you can get involved; going for a wild swim, walk, cycle ride or just being somewhere outdoors where you feel happy!

Devon’s Local Nature Partnership (DLNP) is hoping that many of us will feel inspired to take advantage of the opportunities on offer around the county and reduce time we spend in the doctors waiting room!