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Your wellbeing at university matters

With mental illness on the rise, it’s more important than ever to look after your wellbeing. Here’s how to get help both within the University and outside it

How to combat ‘freshers’ face’

Is your skin suffering from partying too hard in Freshers’ Week? We give some helpful tips on how to combat freshers’ face, including the best type of alcohol to drink to reduce the effects of a wild night out

(Healthy) Mind over matter: How stress can affect your diet

We discuss the effect of stress on the body, and how negative thinking can affect your healthy lifestyle

A quick guide to the Armitage Centre

If you’re looking to get fit this semester, here are some of the things you can enjoy at the Armitage, including classes and team sports

App launched by Manchester scientists to better understand seasonal allergies

Scientists from the University of Manchester invite people to get involved with one of the biggest experiments they have ever conducted.

What’s the Matcha with you?

Perisha Kudhail shows that purple and green must always be seen

Graze vs EarlyBird

With subscription snackboxes becoming an ever-more lucrative industry, Elizabeth Gibson checks out two major players.

Breaking Out of the Bad Habit Cycle

Because getting back on that healthy living wagon is not always as simple as it seems

Increased health spending can be Africa’s route to prosperity

Jessica Chow-Lau argues that more focused government spending across the African continent could come more economic development

Live: HEALTH

A band built for a bunker: HEALTH’s live show is like nuclear war

So what is ‘Love Juice’?

Helena Maxwell-Jackson heads to Chorlton to find out

Legal highs: Worth the risk?

As the use of legal highs rises, Hannah McGrory discusses whether the high is worth the fallout… or not

Move it

Kickstart your year with these healthy habits for the gymphobe

Kick the Habit with Stoptober

Make a change for the better this October with the help of The Mancunion!

Freshers’ Flu: How to avoid the inevitable

It’s big, it’s back, and it’s here to get you. Here’s what you need to know about avoiding the September sniffles. Will you survive?

A little advice for a happy, healthy life

For those struggling to find their way out from a mountain of takeaway boxes and crisp wrappers, Food & Drink Editor Ellie Gibbs gives some basic tips for following a healthy lifestyle

Food Politics: The Underlying Struggles of Social Eating

Ellie Gibbs opens up the prevalent issue of health, eating, and conciousness in today’s society

Feast your eyes on these bullshit diets

Fancy eating your t-shirt or drinking syrup?

On the inside of organ donation

There are some things that you just don’t think you’ll ever have to worry about. You know that they’re issues and you know that people have to face them, but you never imagine that you will be one of those people. Eilis Hall shares her experience in working around organ donation.

My time in a psychiatric hospital

Eilís Hall describes her time in a psychiatric hospital due to an eating disorder and how it impacted her life.