Health

27 July 2011

Calories on menus deter you from eating too much

Putting calorie information on menus is bound to encourage healthy eating, isn't it? When you consider that some pizzas use up more than half of your daily allowance of calories and ...
27 July 2011

Heart attack risk increased if parents have suffered

There's more reason to worry if your parents have a heart attack, than if they have had a stroke, researchers have found. The new study revealed that people are more likely ...
27 July 2011

Men would dump women for gaining weight

Thinking about that bar of chocolate already, that mid-afternoon snack that you usually have to tide you over. Think again. Results of a survey showed that more than half of ...
27 July 2011

Sperm donors on display in online catalogue - browse for your specific interesets

Choosing a man can be hard enough. You have to be attracted to them, a good sense of humour doesn't go amiss and you have to find that spark - ...
27 July 2011

Bowel cancer rates almost doubled

Bowel cancer rates in men have almost doubled since the 70s. The reason for this is attributed to the slobby lifestyles and dodgy diets that they've undertaken. Part of this ...
26 July 2011

Fat can be fatal to your health

It's no longer about how you look, those extra pounds can be fatal in affecting your health. There is a lack of understanding of the dangers of fat stored on ...
26 July 2011

Expert urges women to 'just deal' with menopause

An expert is urging wome to just deal with menopause. Symptoms such as hot flushes and mood swings make life miserable for many menopausal women. But pschotherapist Sue Brayne argues ...
26 July 2011

Diets don't last more than a week

We barely into the start of a new week, so chances are you've recently started a new diet. But don't hold on too long, because the majority of them will ...
26 July 2011

Health, friends and family make us happiest

It's the small things in life that make you the happiest. Some people aren't fond of this saying, claming it's only people who have a comfortable financial situation who can ...
26 July 2011

We all eat too quickly

Eating too quickly is something that we all do, we live such bust lives that we barely have time to remember all the things we need to do today, never ...
25 July 2011

Chances of child developing asthma reduced through breastfeeding

You can cut the chances of your child developing asthma if you choose to breastfeed them. A new Dutch study, found that children who are breastfed exclusively for a least ...
25 July 2011

Diets are a waist of time

If you're attempting that last push of the summer diet, new research hints that there might be no point to it, as you'll only put the weight back on. It ...
22 July 2011

How to have a healthy lunch

Packing for lunch is often done in the morning, with little coffee in your system. Chances are when you go to eat you wonder how you managed to think that ...
22 July 2011

New campaign to help spot the signs of brain tumours

It can take up to three months for a child to be diagnosed with a brain tumour in the UK - that's three times longer than in the United States ...

22 July 2011

Megan Fox's diet secrets

Megan Fox has a body that most women can only dream of. We all know that she must work really hard to stay in shape and most likely doesn't eat ...
22 July 2011

Teenage girls have the worst diets

Teenage girls are the forerunners with the worst diets, according to new research. Not only are these bad diets affecting their health and enerfy levels now, they have to put ...
22 July 2011

Urgent warning on children's vaccine

A flu vaccine that is used on thousands of children must not be given to them, health watchdogs report. The drug, Pandemrix, dramatically increases the risk of narcolepsy. This disorder ...
21 July 2011

Vegetarian diets protects against bowel disorder

Choosing a vegetarian diet can be beneficial to both you and the animals. Research indicates that choosing to follow this eating plan could help protect against a common bowel disorder. ...
21 July 2011

Nicotine substitutes put your unborn baby at risk

Going cold turkey from smoking whilst pregnant is proven to be the only way to protect your unborn child. Babies whose mums smoke or even use nicotine patched or chew ...
21 July 2011

Taller people have greater risk of developing cancer

The taller you are it seems you have a greater risk of developing cancer. The chances of getting a tumour rises 16 per cent for every 10 centimetres in difference ...
20 July 2011

How you can reduce the risk of Alzheimer's Disease

A healthy person has an 18 per cent chance of developing Alzheimer's Disease at some point in there life. But this risk goes up by three per cent when you've ...
20 July 2011

Obesity increases the risk of breast cancer

New research reveals the biggest factor in the increasing rates of breast cancer - obesity. As the number of those diagnosed with the disease continues to rise, there can be ...
20 July 2011

High number of errors found in patients files after transfers

Have you ever suffered complications when you've switched doctors, or have gone from a practice to the hospital? New statistics have shown that when patients transfer between NHS services, incomplete ...
20 July 2011

Jenny Frost urges you all to give blood

Jenny Frost has joined the 100,000 people who have signed up to donate blood. Since the first ever National Blood Week in June, the NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) have ...