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Peter Kay appeared to be a picture of health when he headed to his tour bus after leaving the O2 arena on Sunday.
The comedian, 50, was looking well as he headed out wearing a black hoodie with tracksuit bottoms and cosy slippers.
He kept out the cold with a ribbed black beanie hat and had a big smile on his face as he headed to his next destination. Fiddling with a gadget on his phone, the funnyman, who is rarely pictured out in public when not performing, is as popular as ever with his fans.
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Peter Kay’s absence from the limelight remains shrouded in mystery – but an update to his critically acclaimed ‘everyman’ routine offers an insight into his five-year hiatus.
The 50-year-old has made a stunning return to comedy, delighting his adoring fans with his iconic stand-up routines as he bounds around the stage boasting a new slimmed-down figure.
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Allen Carr (September 2, 1934 – November 29, 2006), an avid smoker who smoked five packs of cigarettes a day until 1983, is best known as the author of books on the fight against nicotine addiction.
Born in London, Allen Carr began smoking during his military service, at the age of 18. In 1958, he earned a degree in accounting. Finally quit smoking in 1983 after a session with a hypnotherapist, but to break up with nicotine addiction helped him not hypnosis. The session gave him the opportunity to realize how easy it is to quit smoking. From that moment Allen Carr began active work to popularize the new method among smokers.
In June 2006, Carr was diagnosed with lung cancer and was predicted to have no more than 9 months to live. Carr responded that “since I smoked my last cigarette 23 years ago, I have been the happiest person on Earth. And I still feel that way today.”
Allen Carr passed away on November 29, 2006, at the age of 72, at his home in Malaga, Spain.
From Carr’s perspective, smokers do not actually experience the pleasure of smoking cigarettes: smoking merely relieves the unpleasant symptoms that occur as nicotine leaves the body after the previous cigarette. This is how nicotine addiction arises and persists. Carr states that the “relief” a smoker feels when smoking a cigarette, the feeling of returning to a “normal” state, is experienced by the non-smoker on a regular basis. Carr also notes that the dependence on smoking is actually much lower than is commonly believed, the symptoms of quitting are actually generated by the mind of the former smoker, and if you put aside the doubts and fears associated with the process of quitting, it will not be so painful. In addition, Carr states that in order to stop smoking, you do not need to have tremendous willpower, because willpower is not required for a person to stop doing something that he does not want to do.
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The first case of human infection with Western equine encephalitis (WEE) since 1996 was recorded in Argentina, the disease has not been detected in humans for the last almost 30 years. This was reported on the website of the World Health Organisation (WHO).
This type of encephalitis is a rare viral disease, which is carried by mosquitoes and to which only horses and humans are exposed, and birds can become vectors of infection. Argentina had previously experienced an outbreak of VEE in horses between 1982 and 1983, and in humans the disease was last confirmed as an isolated case in 1996.
The WHO recalled that those at risk include those who “live, work or participate in outdoor activities in endemic areas or where active animal outbreaks have been declared”. In late 2023, the disease was confirmed in a rural labourer from an area where the virus had been detected in several horses.
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In the United States for the five-year period from 2018 to 2022 increased the incidence of syphilis by 78.9 per cent, the number of detected cases reached 203.5 thousand for the year at all possible stages of the disease. Such data were provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) under the Ministry of Health of the country, reports RIA Novosti.
At the end of 2019, only 113.7 thousand cases of the disease were detected in the United States, the difference was almost 80 per cent. Compared to the previous year, the number of diseases in 2022 increased by 17 per cent.
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Scientists have shown that replacing a dysfunctional gene can slow the development of arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy, a life-threatening inherited disease in which the muscle walls of the heart gradually weaken. The new gene therapy is reported in an article published in Circulation: Genomic and Precision Medicine.
Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy results from dysfunction of the plakophilin-2 (PKP2) gene, which encodes a structural protein that binds heart tissue together. As a result, fibrotic and fatty tissue builds up in the walls of the heart, causing an irregular heartbeat and even increasing the risk of cardiac arrest. Current therapies help restore normal rhythm, but are unable to treat the cause of the disease.
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Eating up to three servings of kimchi a day can reduce belly fat, potentially lowering the risk of developing diabetes. This was shown by scientists at Chung Ang University in South Korea, who published an article in the journal BMJ Open.
The specialists analysed data from 115,726 participants aged 40-69 years who took part in the Health Examinees study in Korea. Obesity was defined as a body mass index of more than 25 kilograms per height squared (in metres), and abdominal obesity was defined as a waist circumference of more than 90 centimetres in men and more than 85 centimetres in women. Kimchi consumption was assessed using a food frequency questionnaire.
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Experts from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have revealed the potential dangers of fat dissolving injections. This is reported in a press release published on MedicalXpress.
The injections are supposed to promote the destruction of fat cells and reduce fat deposits in areas around the injection sites. However, adverse reactions from unauthorised injections cause scarring, skin deformities, cysts, painful nodules and serious infections.
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