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Organic food can help you lose weight and live longer

Organic food can help you lose weight and live longer Switching to organic produce could help you live longer, keep healthy and stay slim. Fruit and veg grown without pesticides and artificial fertilisers have significantly more key nutrients, including ...
 

Children under 10 can risk future health by lack of exercise

Children under 10 can risk future health by lack of exercise Researchers in Sweden have found that children as young as 9 years old could be putting themselves at risk of future heart disease because they are not exercising enough.  The researchers, from Skane...
 

Avoid breast cancer by drinking 5 cups of coffee a day

Avoid breast cancer by drinking 5 cups of coffee a day Yet another story showing the positive effect of something we are normally told is bad for us! A team of researchers at the Karolinska Institute, Sweden, have found that heavy consumption of coffee re...
 

A full English fry-up breakfast. Good for you?

A full English fry-up breakfast.  Good for you? Rod Liddle always writes an entertaining piece in the Sunday Times.  He’s another one of those rare, non politically correct media types, like Jeremy Clarkson, to whom ‘sitting on the fen...
 

Breast cancer could be halved by healthy lifestyle

Breast cancer could be halved by healthy lifestyle The World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) is today claiming that breast cancer rates could be halved if women lived healthier lifestyles.  Their report says as many as 20,000 British women could avoid de...
 

British men – the third fattest in Europe

British men – the third fattest in Europe With only Greece and Malta scoring higher in Europe, Britain is shamed again in a report by the World Health Organisation (WHO). 7 in 10 (67.8 per cent) of males 15 or over in Britain are either over...
 

Should we be sunbathing?

Should we be sunbathing? As we approach a Bank Holiday weekend and the temperatures soar over 20 degrees, beating records for April, the question ‘to sunbathe or not to sunbathe’ in relation to our health is prett...
 

Three parent IVF is closer

Three parent IVF is closer Whilst the Government austerity measures are resulting in health trusts reducing the amount of IVF treatments on the NHS, the fertility watchdog, the HFEA (Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority...
 

Life expectancy rises by a record 44 days in just one year

Life expectancy rises by a record 44 days in just one year Figures published by the Department for Work and Pensions predict that one in four people aged under 16 will now live to at least 100. In fact, life expectancy grew by 44 days just last year. Longevit...
 

Know your probiotics from your prebiotics

Know your probiotics from your prebiotics Professor of microbiology, Glenn Gibson from the University of Reading and leading expert on probiotics claims that anyone interested in gut health should consider taking a probiotic.  He is quoted i...