Health, Wave: November 23rd, 2010
Your health queries answered with Jacquie Lane, from the College of Naturopathic Medicine
I suffer from what my doctor describes as mild depression. I don’t want to take antidepressants. Can diet help?
RM, Brighton
Diet and lifestyle play a huge part in our mental health. If your doctor has ruled out any medical contributions such as thyroid dysfunction, then address your diet.
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Health, Wave: November 23rd, 2010
Bikram’s Way: Zara Baker finds everyone is bending over backwards to try the latest trend in yoga at Bikram In The Lanes

I meet Simon Goddard of Bikram In The Lanes in the huge studio space on North Street. A Bikram yoga class is in session so we sit outside the studio in a light-filled corridor that’s been transformed into an art gallery space. Simon, a native Brightonian, graduated as a Bikram yoga teacher in 2007. Together with Bridgett Ane, an American national who also teaches, they moved back to Brighton having sought and being granted permission from Bikram himself to open and run a yoga studio in an accessible, central location. It is warm and bright when Simon and I sit down, but things are a lot hotter for the people in the yoga studio…
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Telly Talk: November 23rd, 2010
For Your Own Good: Ian Hislop’s Age Of The Do-Gooders
I’ve always been rather shy of my lack of British history knowledge. I’ve patched together bits of information I’ve garnered from my Literature degree. I learnt about the terrible treatment of the poor from Dickens’ novels – just as he’d intended, but probably a couple of centuries too late for him – and about the mills of industrialism from Elizabeth Gaskell and the bawdy lives of the privileged from ‘Tom Jones’. (Not the singer.) But quite how these patches fitted together I had yet to work out. How exactly did it go from the raucous rich and the pox-ridden poor in Britain to a refined system of prudishness and philanthropy? I’m glad I asked.
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Sport: November 23rd, 2010
Mark Brailsford says ‘bring on Man Utd!’
Carry on General Poyet. Napoleon said he didn’t require good generals – just lucky ones. In that case, Albion manager Gus Poyet can add luck to his already formidable armoury.
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