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Older people with high fibre intake less likely to suffer dementia and diabetes  - Dietary fibre can be crucial in helping older people to enjoy healthy ageing, according to a new report yesterday. Most people know that a diet high in ...

Why older people take fewer risks  -  Older people are less willing to take risks for potential rewards, and ... “As we age, our dopamine levels naturally decline which could explain why we ...

Celebrities Talking About Anxiety  -  Mental health can be a tricky beast, especially in the glow of the Hollywood spotlight. Standards in the entertainment industry enforce a need to ...

How many more must die?' Mental Health campaigners ask tough questions as friends mourn Alan ...  - Grieving friends of heartbroken father Alan Wise, whose daughter fell to her death following an 18-month battle get help counselling for depression, ...

How Self-Employment Can Impact Your Mental Health  -  The highs and lows of your mental health may not define you, but they can ... Around half (49 percent) of the UK's self-employed are in low pay, ...

Welfare sector calls for poverty reduction target and fairer super system  - The Australian Council of Social Service has written to major political parties asking for election commitments to compare their approach to poverty , ...

Financial exclusion created by “confusion and distrust” in the system  - More than a third (35%) of people think distrust of the financial system is causing financial exclusion in the UK , with a fifth (20%) saying people prefer ...

Fair Food Fund to be set up as part of welfare reforms  - The Scottish government set out its plans to tackle poverty as part of a ... attacking the UK government's austerity programme and describing Scottish ...

President Obama declares LGBT Pride month with quote from Dr Martin Luther King  - came in a Presidential Proclamation in which Obama singled out his administration's attempts to make America more equitable for LGBTI people.

Nick Jonas not letting the gay baiting rap get him down  - used to someone like him being so open and doing things like canceling concerts in North Carolina in protest of that state's new anti- LGBTI law.

Honoring Indonesia's brave LGBT advocates  - Arus Pelangi, the Indonesian National Federation of LGBTI Communities, which she co-founded and chairs, and 14 other Indonesian human rights ...

Kyiv Pride under threat by Neo-Nazis; worries about Eurovision 2017  - The thugs, who are backed by the Ukraine Orthodox Church, have a long history of disrupting and attacking LGBTI people and ...

Prospective LGBTIQ parents invited to join the making rainbow families seminar  - are geared towards heterosexual couples and Rainbow Families saw a need to provide information tailored to specifically to the LGBTI community.

Greece to send gay Syrian asylum seeker back to Turkey under controversial migrant deal  - According to a report by NGO ILGA-Europe violence was a common thread linking many of the major events involving LGBTI (Lesbian, Bisexual, ...

La Trobe lifts suspension on Safe Schools academic Roz Ward  - But he said it was clear, in the face of widespread criticism of the decision that accused the university of giving in to “moral panic” about the LGBTI  ...

Ab Fab's Joanna Lumley: 'Patsy is transgender'  -  The actress made the tongue-in-cheek revelation while discussing the show's rich history of LGBTI characters and references ahead of the release of ...

Largest LGBT movement in Middle East go to be shared live  -  Tel Aviv Pride Parade, the largest in the Middle East, will mark the official start of European Pride events this year along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea - and it is set to be shared live on twitter and Facebook.

NZ sports come together to stamp out homophobia and racism  - The country's leading sporting organisations, led by New Zealand Rugby, have come together to encourage greater diversity across all codes, in an ...

Ukraine's Heroes: Gay soldier fights for Ukraine despite homophobic moods  - Ex-soldier Oleh Kopko talks about his service in the army and his experience of hiding his sexuality from his comrades in an interview on Jan. 22.

Cuban Singer Kicks Fan Who Touched Him, Claims He Didn't Know He Was ...  - I didn't know this person was homosexual, I'm not homophobic ," he said. "In fact, I have many friends who are gay," he stated. Although he claims to ...

Six major sports embracing diversity  - The findings suggest that 62% of all participants and 73% of gay men believe homophobia is more common in team sports than the rest of society in ...

Safe Schools program hijacked, says gay activist  - The Ballarat farmer was frustrated while on the government advisory committee with the slow rollout of Safe Schools and other anti- homophobia  ...

LGBT Mission Aiming To 'Broaden The Tent'  - A different stone wall: Participants in this week's LGBT mission sponsored by ... JFNA's first LGBT mission, which took place in 2005, was much more ... of hostility within Israeli culture” during this trip, his first visit to the Middle East .

Campaign to tackle 'ingrained' homophobia  - A NEW campaign backed by the local NHS board that aims to challenge the homophobia that is “ingrained in parts of Shetland culture” has been ...