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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Lifestyle
Madeleine Spencer

9 cheap ways to hack yourself to better health — from adding salt to your water and eating flaxseed daily

There are, to my mind, two deeply-unappealing facets to how wellness practises and products are presented. The first is in the form of fluffy farcical ideas like bubble baths acting as a panacea for all life’s woes. A bubble bath is a joy, sure, and it can bookend a crap day — but cure all ills it cannot, obviously.

The second is the preposterous notion that being well can be bought (though of course finances play a role and pretending otherwise would be insane), when a whole host of truly-effective measures don’t involve big spends but rather small actions, repeated often.

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