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Three stories you should read today

• The traditional British foods health experts want to cancel – and how to make them healthier

• With the evenings drawing in, it’s comfort food season once again, when we seek solace in heartier, stodgier foods. Who doesn’t want a plate of steaming cottage pie on a chilly autumn evening, or a bowlful of comforting crumble and custard? But our traditional British favourites often get a bad rap for being unhealthy – too many calories, an excess of fat, sugar, salt or all of the above. Indeed, even a small fish and chips from the local chippy packs nearly 1,000 calories and 50g of fat (NHS recommendations are 2,500 calories/90g fat per day for a man and 2,000 calories/70g fat for a woman).

• From the Full English to the sticky toffee pudding, here are 10 home-grown classics remade with fewer unhealthy ingredients

• ‘After seven years of dementia decline, Mama is back’

• It was late 2016 when novelist Angela Huth’s loved ones began to see creeping signs of what would turn out to be dementia. “She was becoming anxious and frenetic and started writing lots of lists,” recalls her daughter Eugenie. “It was around Christmas and she became unusually flustered and panicked about getting a turkey. Her cooking got strange too. I remember her making these green pancakes.”

• With help from the wonder drug Memantine, Land Girls novelist Angela Huth is experiencing something of a respite from Alzheimer’s

• Will you live to 100? The answer is in your blood

• Brother Marcus wants to be 120, though even he was plagued by three heart attacts recently and since July still in a lot of problems with his body.

• But he continues to believe in positivism and the inner strength of every person who can do miracles.
• The search for the secrets to a long, healthy life is as old as mankind. A new study has found a series of clues, which take us closer than ever before – and they lie in our blood.In mid-October, a Swedish-led team of researchers reported on their study of blood samples taken from 44,000 people from the age of 64 over a period of up to 35 years. They compared 12 “biomarkers” in the blood of those who went on to live past the age of 100, and those who did not.

  These markers included cholesterol and blood sugar, the markers of metabolism; uric acid, a marker of inflammation; creatinine, a measure of kidney function; iron, which is linked to anaemia; and enzymes associated with liver function.

  The research revealed that the chances of becoming a centenarian are linked to 10 of the 12 biomarkers, and three in particular. “Those who made it to their 100th birthday tended to have lower levels of glucose, creatinine and uric acid from their 60s onwards,’ says co-author Dr Karin Modig, associate professor of epidemiology at Sweden’s Karolinska Institute. “But although we are genetically predisposed to having higher or lower levels, most of these markers are closely linked with our lifestyle.”

• You can fight the genetic lottery by changing your lifestyle