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According to research out today eating Tangerines could protect you against heart attacks, diabetes and strokes as well as staving off obesity, as they contain Nobiletin, which helps prevent these conditions.

The study was undertaken by researchers at the University of Western Ontario, in Canada, were they fed two groups of mice a high fat content diet and the other group simple sugars.

The first group that were fed the high in fat diet became obese, had elevated cholesterol, high blood levels of insulin and glucose and a fatty liver, all these symptoms increase the risk of diabetes and heart disease. 

Whereas the second group of mice that were feed the simple sugars diet, which had tangerines in, gained a normal amount of weight and showed no rise in cholesterol, insulin or glucose.

Lead researcher Dr Murray Huff said: ‘The Nobiletin-treated mice were protected from obesity.

With obesity in the U.K rising more and more people are being diagnosed with high cholesterol, brought on by an over consumption of fatty and sugary foods. Once diagnosed many suffers have to maintain a healthy diet and exercise to control their cholesterol. Here is some advice on how to control your cholesterol level.

Take and Make Note of What You Eat

If possible try to keep some sort of food diary, this doesn’t have to be permanently, but using one for a month or two when you first begin to control your cholesterol can help as you will be able to pinpoint trouble areas in your diet.

Find and Use Replacements for High Cholesterol Ingredients and Meals

When you are eating meals and snacks at home you have the advantage of controlling exactly what you eat and what ingredients you put into your body. A great way to lower cholesterol is to modify usual recipes to a low-fat, low-cholesterol version, which can be done with most meals.

Avoid Fad Diets

Often Cholesterol is linked weight. The key to losing weight and maintaining a low cholesterol is to take your doctors advice and stick to a safe, healthy diet rather then to fad diet, as this can that damage your health. Just simply follow your doctors advised diet and combine with an exercise routine and you will start to see results.

Set Realistic Fitness Goals

Instead of over doing it and setting off hoping to achieve too much at once, choose to focus on regularly modest amount of exercise for example try walking, go swimming, play a sport with a friend. It doesn’t have to be much in order to see results. 

British film star Tom Hardy is bulking up - for his upcoming role as villain Bane in Christopher Nolan’s next Batman installment, The Dark Knight Rises.

The Bafta winner showed of his already impressive 12 stone ripped, muscular physique when he appeared on Alan Carr’s Chatty Man on Monday, but revealed to the host that he has to gain more weight in order to reach the 13 and a half or 14 stone target.

"I'm going to need to bulk up a lot for it. That's a lot of weight to put on and I've got to start shooting in May. I'm 12 and a bit now, so I've got under three months to do that. Fat - a lot of fat. And trickery." He told Carr.

Hardy is no stranger to bulking up for starring roles, he famously gained an excessive amount of weight to portray Britain’s most notorious prisoner Chrales Bronson.

In order to gain the weight for Bronson Hardy’s regime consisted of non-specific exercises such as press ups, push ups, abs work and resistance training. When interviewed by AskMen Hardy said “My approach was to do a lot of repetitions in order to send messages to my muscles: this helps them start to grow in a way that you can’t make them in the gym. To achieve dense muscle, you need a specific kind of training.”

When asked how do you lose the weight once you have gained it Tom said “It’s much less daunting once you’ve put your foot on the road to it. I’m a notorious couch potato and I don’t like exercise. Half an hour of physical exercise, like jogging or fast walking a day is a start. Then there’s your diet. You cut out sugars, fat, soy sauces… anything that’s nice. Tea and coffee is replaced by boiling water with lemon. It’s amazing how quickly you get into it. There’s also herbal tea and a lot of water, obviously… about two litres a day. It’s about motivation and it has to be something that’s realistic for you to keep up.”

Renowned for his mad - professor type style of cooking, TV chef Heston Blumenthal has set his sights on something much more challenging then creating edible wallpaper, Heston wants to try and persuade bosses of the NHS largest children’s hospital, Alder Hey Hospital in Liverpool, that cheap, processed food is not acceptable and may possible be stunting recovery from illness.

In tonight’s first episode, screened on channel 4, Heston attempts to provide fun and healthy meals for the children of Alder Hey hospital, on a measly budget of £3.34 per child. From just £3.34 per head, Heston introduces his ‘Bet You Can’t Eat That’ menu, featuring a ‘snot milkshake’, a ‘vomit soup’, and ‘worms on pizza’, stating “It’s healthy ingredients disguised as fun.”

Although the new menu is well received by patients, the staff on the other hand don’t respond well to the changes. The head of catering at the children’s becomes extremely defensive insisting, “90% of the food at the hospital is cooked fresh from scratch.”

Faced with the challenge of improving the nations health whilst cooking without a kitchen, for hundreds, for less than £1 a meal, without trained staff, in some episodes, this is really is a Mission Impossible for Heston.