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Serve up tasty, nutritious meals for your little one with OXO Tot’s innovative range of feeding and weaning equipment.
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Breastfeeding significantly lowers cancer risk
29th September 2008 Breastfeeding significantly lowers cancer risk A major study has strengthened the theory that breastfeeding significantly reduces a mother’s risk of breast cancer. Women who breastfeed for a year over their lifetime are almost 5 per cent less likely to develop the disease than those who do not breastfeed at all, it showed.…
Passive Smoking Alert For Parents
Children regularly exposed to smoking are three times more likely to contract lung cancer in later life than those in non-smoking homes according to new research. Researchers from the Imperial College told the British Medical Journal that the link between lung cancer and passive smoking was “significant”, after studying 123,000 volunteers over 7 years. Some…
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Tagged Addiction, Cancer, Cancer Research UK, cancers, Cigarette, Forest, Habits, Imperial College, lobby, Lung cancer, manager for Action, Passive smoking, Research Manager, Robert West, Simon Clark, Smoking, the British Medical Journal, Tobacco, Tobacco control movement
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The evolvement of the family in the 20th century
Following the success of C4′s 1900 House, we examine how family life has changed from the beginning to end of the 20th century… With the arrival of a new baby you may feel that your finances are stretched to the limit, but your money goes a lot further now than at the beginning of the 20th century. There…
Income and expenditure
Men’s income still outstrips that of women of all ages, but the growth in average earnings is currently moving faster than prices are rising. Many people are not planning for the future, with 30% of households reporting having no savings at all in 1997. Television, video and audio have become increasingly important to us all,…
Babyworld and SPARKS in 2006 – we need your help now
Babyworld and Sparks in 2006 – We need your help now For 2006, babyworld has chosen to work with Sparks (Sport Aiding Medical Research for Kids) to raise funds for a specific research project related to pregnancy, birth or illness in young children. Exactly which project is not yet clear because we want you to…
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Tagged cancers, cerebral palsy, illness, Institute of Child Health, Meningitis, Nissen fundoplication, online activities, positive solutions, Pre-eclampsia, Pregnancy, premature birth, Prenatal diagnosis, Primary ciliary dyskinesia, resuscitation, Spina bifida, surgery, The University of Manchester, University of Leicester, University of Manchester
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