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A few small steps can make a healthy diet and help you to control your weight, too. Dietitian Annemarie Aburrow shows us how.

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Manchester Metropolitan University | Dr Stephen White

Around a third of heart attacks are caused when fatty plaques in the walls of arteries become unstable and rupture. This tends to happen when the cells that line the blood vessels – endothelial cells – detach, causing the formation of blood...

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Imperial College London | Professor Peter Weinberg

In atherosclerosis, some parts of a single blood vessel appear to be more at risk of developing areas of fatty plaques – which can eventually rupture to cause a heart attack – than others. Professor Peter Weinberg and his team have been awa...

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Lancaster University | Professor David Middleton

Deposits of amyloid protein are probably better known for being involved in neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease. But there is increasing evidence that these amyloid ‘plaques’ also accumulate with the fatty deposits that ...

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