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EDITORIAL You know what’s
Editor Daniel Bennett
Managing editor Alice Lipscombe-Southwell
Production editor Robert Banino good for you
Commissioning editor Jason Goodyer
Staff writer James Lloyd
Editorial assistant Amy Barrett
Online editor Alexander McNamara A healthy, varied diet with plenty of fresh fruit and veg, regular
Online assistant Sara Rigby
exercise and six to eight hours’ sleep each night. When all’s
ART & PICTURES said and done, the secret to good health is getting those three
Art editor Joe Eden
Deputy art editor Steve Boswell things. It’s not complicated and, truth be told, it’s nothing we
Designer Jenny Price don’t already know. We also know what happens when we
Picture editor James Cutmore
don’t eat right, exercise well or sleep enough. Our bodyweight
PRESS AND PUBLIC RELATIONS goes up, our mental well-being goes down and, if we forego any one of them
Press officer Carolyn Wray
carolyn.wray@immediate.co.uk for long enough, we get ill.
PRODUCTION What few of us know, however, are the reasons why a good diet, exercise
Production director Sarah Powell and sleep are so important to our health. What exactly are those three
Production co-ordinator Katty Skardon
Reprographics Tony Hunt, Chris Sutch things doing to our bodies to help us stay healthy and happy? Part of the
reason for that is because so many of the websites, TV shows, magazines,
PUBLISHING
Commercial director Jemima Dixon newspapers and books we turn to for advice seem to offer conflicting
Content director Dave Musgrove information. Which is why we’ve put together this Special Edition. We’ve
Publishing director Andy Healy
Managing director Andy Marshall turned to the experts to help us cut through the confusion around staying
healthy and reveal the science behind exactly what works and why.
BBC STUDIOS, UK PUBLISHING
Chair, editorial review boards Nicholas Brett Over the following 100 pages, you’ll discover whether it’s worth forking
Director of consumer products and publishing out for superfoods (page 20), why a bit of dark chocolate actually does you
Andrew Moultrie
Head of publishing Mandy Thwaites quite a lot of good (page 28) and exactly what benefits you can expect to get
UK Publishing coordinator Eva Abramik from staying off the booze for a month (page 30). You’ll also find out about
Contact UK.Publishing@bbc.com the benefits that exercise can deliver besides bigger, stronger muscles
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CIRCULATION / ADVERTISING (page 50) and the best ways to beat insomnia (page 80).
A lot of the advice you’ll find in here probably won’t be new but it’s backed
Circulation manager Rob Brock by research and, perhaps best of all, proves that staying healthy doesn’t
PINTEREST have to be hard work… And since you don’t have to cut out all the things

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