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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
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?
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...High salt diet is good for you!
Here we go again. Another story that contradicts everything you’ve ever been told! Scientists in Belgium have discovered that those on a high salt diet have a lower risk of heart attack. Th...It's not how much fat but where it's distributed in your body
People with heart disease who are normal weight but carry fat around their middle are twice as likely to die than those that are generally obese. Scientists at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota in t...Every hour of TV and computer raises risk of heart disease
Heart disease is Britain’s biggest killer as reported in our article Top of the Pops (as in ‘pop your clogs’) 17 Jan 2011 killing over 150,000 people a year. Researchers in Oz have f...New treatment for pre-eclamsia with common heart disease drug
Scientists believe that statins, taken by millions of older Britons to reduce their cholesterol levels, can help reduce the severity of pre-eclampsia. Pre-eclampsia leads to high blood pressure in pre...Neuropsin linked to stress and depression
A day after Leicester University has come up with the biggest breakthrough ever for heart disease and stroke victims, up in come again with another discovery! Dr Robert Pawlak, of the University has...An apple a day really does keep the doctor away
A study by the department of nutrition, food and exercise sciences at Florida University found that women on an ‘apple diet’ saw their cholesterol drop by almost a quarter in six months, w...'Wonder' drug offers hope against obesity
A new treatment combining two existing drugs ,phentermine and topiramate achieved up to 10 per cent weight loss, which was more than double that of ‘orlistat’, currently the only long te...
