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  • Reminder: Your core is more than just your “six-pack abs.” Your core includes everything from your deep abdominal wall and lower back to your hips, glutes, and pelvic floor. Another important, yet often underrated, part of your core? Your internal and external obliques—the muscles on the sides of your abdomen that drive core rotation.If you’ve…

  • It’s entirely possible to be irritable and depressed at the same time. Although depression is often associated with only sadness or hopelessness, it can also manifest as anger, frustration, and irritability, according to Jessica Borrelli, Ph.D.,1 associate professor of psychological science at the University of California, Irvine.After managing the tremendous ups and downs of the…

  • A schoolboy is to begin pioneering brain tumour treatment after donations topping £350,000 were pledged in less than four months. George Fox, 12, underwent emergency 10-hour surgery to remove his five-centimetre tumour, but it grew back to a similar size within five weeks. Tests revealed he had glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), the most aggressive and lethal…

  • The coronavirus pandemic, Brexit and resource issues severely challenged the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) in 2020, according to the agency’s annual report. Food inspections, sampling and enforcement orders all declined but food and allergen alerts rose compared to 2019. Inspectors served businesses with 31 closure orders, two improvement orders and nine prohibition orders,…

  • A group of people affected by a large poisoning outbreak in Spain from adulterated olive oil several decades ago have tried to raise awareness of the incident, according to media reports. Reuters reported the survivors went into Madrid’s El Prado art gallery on Tuesday and threatened to commit suicide. They were removed by security officials…