A curry a day may help keep cancer away.

Bharat Aggarwal, a professor of experimental therapeutics at the University of Texas’s M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, began studying the cancer-fighting properties of curcumin – the active ingredient in turmeric – in the 1990s. Back then, he says, it was hard to get his colleagues to take him seriously; he recalls one oncologist politely shooed him out of his office when he tried to share his findings.

These days, however,his is an expanding field of research.The scientific community is discovering the medicinal powers of not just turmeric, but all kinds of spices.

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Scientists are slowly unlocking the secrets of ageing, and some suggest treatments may soon be at hand to slow or even reverse the ageing process.

But what can science really achieve, and what are the dangers of meddling with our biological clocks?

Could such treatments induce cancers in humans, for example, and what about the world’s burgeoning population and the West’s “pension time bomb”?

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It’s been the scourge of dieters for years. Now, one baking obsessive celebrates as experts admit bread is actually good for you.

Dr Atkins must be ­spinning in his grave. After years of demonisation by the diet police, bread — crust, crumb and optional thick layer of golden butter — is back.

Sales of bread are rising for the first time in 36 years: Tesco, Asda and the Co-op have each reported an overall increase of up to 10 per cent, while speciality bakeries are mushrooming, their shelves groaning with ever more inventive breads, studded with everything from chocolate to potato.

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Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem have welcomed their first child.

The Spanish actress, 36, gave birth to the baby boy on Tuesday – the same day her husband found out he had been nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for Biutiful.

The news was revealed by Spanish newspaper El Pais, which wrote that the baby was born in Los Angeles at the world-renowned Cedars Sinai hospital.

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Doctors at a Berlin hospital have made a medical breakthrough after capturing live MRI images of the miracle of birth.

The pictures, taken after a German mother agreed to give birth inside a magnetic-resonance imaging machine, could provide valuable new insights into the birthing process and save lives in the future.

Gynaecologist Ernst Beinder at Berlin’s Charité Hospital said the birth proceeded normally and the machine filmed all the movements and processes that went on inside the womb.They were even able to use the machine to monitor the baby’s heart beat.

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What does Jennifer ­Aniston really eat? Some claim she curbs carbs on the Atkins diet, others say she ­follows the Zone Diet, which involves eating a 40:30:30 ratio of carbs to fat to protein.

Well, ladies, now her personal chefs, sisters Jewels and Jill Elmore, have released a ­cookbook, which finally lifts the lid on the ­contents of Jennifer’s saucepans.

The introduction to this work has been penned by Aniston herself, who reveals that in a time she refers to as ‘BJ: Before ­Jewels’, she lived on an ­assortment of ­‘prepackaged Zone meals, overcooked takeout and…the ­occasional piece of cheese’.
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Tape measures and scales could soon be replaced in GPs’ surgeries with a 3D body scanner, according to its British designers.

The body volume index (BVI) takes a ‘photocopy’ of a patient’s body in just six seconds.

The seven-foot booth has 16 sensors and 32 cameras and analyses a person’s body fat distribution section by section.

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A new study suggests properties in berries remove toxins that can interfere with function. But they’re not the only brain-smart foods.

Scan any list of so-called superfoods and you’ll find berries at the top. They’re low in calories, fat free and a good source of fibre and vitamins.

But their superfood status is credited to their outstanding polyphenol content, natural compounds linked with anti-aging, anti-cancer and heart health benefits.

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It has long being credited as the way to a serene mind. But scientists have now discovered that meditation physically enhances the brain.

Even a brief course of meditation strengthens connections between the regions of the brain that regulate our emotional responses, they found.

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He was a serial womaniser, whose battle with drink and drugs almost cost him his career.

But Robbie Williams has now thanked his new wife for ‘making him a better person’ and helping him turn his life around.

The 36-year-old singer tied the knot with U.S. actress Ayda Field in California on Saturday.

The star has also revealed details of the ceremony at their £12million Beverly Hills home, which saw him take to the stage to sing a version of his own hit song, Angels, in front of a handful of gathered guests.

Speaking in Hello! magazine, Williams said: ‘Ayda looked the most beautiful girl in the world. The setting was so magical and to be surrounded by family and close friends and then see Ayda appear looking so radiant was almost too much for me to take. I’m the happiest man alive.

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