HEALTH NOTES: My 5:2 diet's just what the doctor ordered, 令状s MARTIN CLUNES

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When ツバメ Clunes, the 星／主役にする of TV’s Doc ツバメ, 劇的な lost 負わせる five years ago, it was assumed he was 苦しむing from an illness. But the actor, left, has 明らかにする／漏らすd that his slimmer でっちあげる，人を罪に陥れる was the result of 可決する・採択するing the 流行の／上流の 5:2 diet.

‘I was fat ? and while I was getting 激しい, I had tired 膝s and stuff,’ he 収容する／認めるs.

‘So I thought I’d try that diet and the 負わせる （機の）カム off. I lost about three 石／投石する in as many months. It’s 広大な／多数の／重要な ? and it’s supposed to be good for cholesterol, too.’?

TV 星／主役にする ツバメ Clunes, pictured, 収容する／認めるs his new slimmer でっちあげる，人を罪に陥れる is 予定 to the 5:2 diet ?

Clunes, 55, 現在／一般に starring in the penultimate series as the grumpy Cornwall GP, explains: ‘Now I do 6:1 and that seems to work 罰金. I eat anything I want on the other days. It’s 平易な and seems to keep the 負わせる off me.’

He 追加するs that his working farm in Dorset helps to keep him in good physical 形態／調整.

‘I have a couple of big horses and ride them. I’m very healthy. This is a difficult age, 明白に, but I’m doing 罰金 ? I’m not on any 医薬.

‘The only bad thing about 存在 a 農業者 is that I stink!’

Omega fatty 酸性のs are a ‘安全な and 効果的な 治療’ for children with ADHD, a major review of 臨床の 裁判，公判s has 結論するd.

Omegas, 設立する in oily fish and evening primrose 工場／植物s, are important for brain health and cognition ? and low intakes have been linked with poor social behaviour and communication.

In the new review, published in the 定期刊行物 Of Lipids, 16 熟考する／考慮するs were analysed, 含むing those where omega fatty 酸性のs had been a standalone 治療 and others where they’d been used と一緒に prescription 麻薬s.

The 大多数 of the 熟考する／考慮するs ? 13 ? 報告（する）／憶測d 重要な 改良s in ADHD symptoms, 含むing 減ずるd hyperactivity and impulsivity, better attention, and 改善するd working and short-称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語 memory.

The 研究 also 設立する that 補足（する）s with a 明確な／細部 割合 of 確かな 必須の fatty 酸性のs were the most 有益な.

研究員 Dr Emma Derbyshire said: ‘It is 井戸／弁護士席-known that children with ADHD have lower fatty-酸性の levels in their 血 than those without the 条件.

‘Now we know 補足（する）s which 供給する a 9:3:1 割合 of eicosapentaenoic 酸性の, docosahexaenoic 酸性の and gamma linolenic 酸性の, such as Equazen, are the most 効果的な at 改善するing 血 levels of these 酸性のs.’

強調する／ストレス '原因（となる）s IBS'?

強調する／ストレス ? not food ? is the main 誘発する／引き起こす for Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), a 調査する has 設立する. The 条件, 概算の to 影響する／感情 up to one in five in the UK, 原因（となる）s a variety of unpleasant symptoms that stopped those questioned from socialising (88 per cent) and going to work (50 per cent).

While 強調する／ストレス (34 per cent) and food (28 per cent) were identifed as the most ありふれた 誘発する／引き起こすs, nearly a ４半期/4分の1 of people 明言する／公表するd that they didn’t know what 原因（となる）d their IBS.

The 投票 was 行為／行うd by Enterosgel ? a gel drink that （人命などを）奪う，主張するs to help those with the 条件 by ‘保護するing the 腸の 塀で囲む’.

強調する／ストレス and not food has been 設立する to be the main 誘発する／引き起こす for Irritable Bowel Syndrome?

Music's brain 上げる?

Good news for those who like crooning to the guitar or tinkling the ivory 重要なs ? music has an age-保護するing 影響 on the brain, 特に for amateurs. 研究員s from Harvard University compared the brains of three groups of people: professional and amateur musicians and 非，不，無-musicians. Based on the results, ‘brain ages’ were calculated ? and compared to peoples’ chronological age.

非，不，無-musical people had the highest brain-age 得点する／非難する／２０s, 示唆するing that ‘music-making has an age-decelerating 影響’, the 研究員s 報告（する）／憶測d.

Amateur musicians had the youngest brains. One theory is that concentrating on one activity might not be as 有益な as having the wider 利益／興味s of an amateur musicians. 激しい music-making activities of a professional could also lead to 強調する／ストレス, they say, 減ずるing the 肯定的な 影響 of music-making.