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ADAPTIVE YOGA specialist

Miranda McCarthy has lived with rheumatoid arthritis since she was two.

“I have experienced chronic pain for a lifetime,” she said recently. “But yoga shows you how to re ­ inhabit the body with greater harmony and ease, no matter how painful it might feel,” she explained.

She also recommended beginning the day by rubbing the palms of the hands together before getting out of bed each morning.

“It might sound strange but doing this for a minute or two each morning increases energy levels, helping us to perform with more efficiency,” she said. “It’s a good starting point for anyone who is feeling stiff or struggling with mobility.”

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The bacteria is easily destroyed through cooking, explaining why many of the listeriosis food poisoning cases reported involved ready­prepared food and smoked fish.

As a rule, listeriosis is relatively benign with mild symptoms of diarrhoea and nausea. But in people with weakened immune systems, the bacteria can spread from the intestines into the blood­