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Fish oil is hailed as a must-have component in Recommended Dietary Intake (RDI) by nutritionists, and the pharma industry has been waxing eloquently about its miraculous effects on heart health, improvement of skin complexion and hair growth, and its numerous other benefits. This is promoted as a nutrient-rich, irreplaceable ingredient because of its main component — omega-3 fatty acid — loaded with essential goodness required for building and maintenance of overall health. Worried that your fish intake is less or next to nothing? If yes, fish oil supplements are the answer to your woes. Marketed as a beneficial go-to natural...

Yes (Russ Neal) Pornography may seem to be the ultimate “victimless crime,” a private vice that should be of no interest to the government, but nothing could be further from the truth. As a form of infidelity, pornography wars against the exclusive erotic love relationship that lies at the heart of marriage. Healthy, functioning marriages and families are important to a healthy and functioning society. Pornography acts very much like drugs using natural body hormones as the substance being abused.  As with drugs, some people can use pornography with only manageable harm while others go on to life-destroying addiction. Not...

The rain had cleared by the time I left the Ypres Castle, and I retraced my footsteps back to the churchyard. I walk the opposite way around this time and then continued across to where the road narrows before turning a corner, by Lamb House. Turning the corner took me into Mermaid Street which is where I was aiming for, because a third of the way down this steep, and quite narrow, cobbled street is the historic and rather picturesque Mermaid Inn. I stopped for a while on the narrow pavement opposite to take a few, obligatory photos on this...

Ramp up the flavour and texture of Veganuary with these soups of green pea and coconut, herby pumpkin and walnut, and chickpea and carrot with olivesTruth be told, I’m not brilliant at either New Year’s resolutions or giving things up. If pushed to choose, however, I’d far sooner not eat meat for January than refuse the odd glass of wine, which at this time of the year is frankly medicinal. And not eating meat or fish is the most brilliant way of having to ramp up flavour, colour and crunch: vibrant green peas, bright orange squash, palate-wakening aromatics, crunchy seeds...

Gov. Ron DeSantis after being sworn in to serve a second term as the governor of Florida, in Tallahassee, Fla., on Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2023. On Friday, DeSantis announced an executive order for the National Guard to assist hundreds of migrants.AP On Friday, Flordia’s Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis announced an executive order for the National Guard to assist hundreds of migrants as the situation intensifies and overwhelms local officials in the Florida Keys. “As the negative impacts of Biden’s lawless immigration policies continue unabated, the burden of the Biden administration’s failure falls on local law enforcement who lack the resources...