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As a new year dawns, it’s a good time to pause and consider what’s happened to you over the last 12 months. Was it a good year for you health wise? Did you exercise regularly? Did you include more whole grains, fruits and vegetables in your diet? Did you cut back on salt, sugar or fried foods at all? If you declined something unhealthy even once, give yourself some praise it‘s healthy to feel good about yourself.It’s our hope that reading Body & Soul has helped you gain insight and better understanding of your overall health and wellness. While we know not every article will be applicable to every person, we feel that knowledge equips us to better understand, and through understanding we gain the ability to be more supportive of each other.This year we offer a quiz with the chance to win a $50 gift voucher. All the answers can be found in Body & Soul articles run last year. We’ve chosen one question from articles run each month.1) UK native Alan Rowland believes that mental health workers and systems need to be more client-focused. This means: a) He believes therapists should look at each case independently and tell each patient what they should do. b) His philosophy is for therapists to be caring, for them to look patients in the eye when speaking with them and that they have conversations rather than demand answers and issue directives. c) That the mentally ill should be institutionalised for better observation of their conditions.2) What are three main ways you can help increase ambulance response time when you call in for an emergency at your home?3) It’s important for a couple to have similar interests, but it’s also important for the health of the relationship, that they have things they do alone or with others. True or False?4) Can Police, doctors and/or forensic experts determine the approximate distance from which a victim was shot, just by looking at their wounds? What is unique about contact wounds?5) Stress hormones are released when you have positive happy thoughts. True or False?6) Why is infection control particularly important at the hospital’s construction site?7) What are the two broad categories of arthritis?8) Is there any truth to dying of a broken heart?9) According to Dr Rachel Salas can lack of sleep affect weight?10) What is the ideal blood pressure reading?11) What Bermudian doctor co-authored a cancer research paper in December’s Cancer Discovery journal?12) What is the Global Children’s Challenge?Submit your answers by e-mailing gazettehealth[AT]yahoo.com or drop them off with a contact number, at The Royal Gazette on Par-la-Ville Road by noon on January 10. A draw will be made from all correctly submitted answers for the $50 gift voucher.