Tag: Health

  • New Study: Can Religion Help You Fight Serious Illness?

    “Do you believe in God?” is not the sort of thing you normally expect to hear in a hospital clinic. But for a group women quietly waiting in a breast health clinic, their wait to see the doctor was interrupted by this question. However, this wasn’t an enthusiastic evangelist trying to win a new convert;…

  • New Findings: How the ‘Five-A-Day’ Scheme has changed what we eat (or not)…

    Do you think you eat enough fruit and veg? If you’re like most of us - then you probably don’t. Almost a decade has passed since governments around the world starting telling us to eat ‘five-a-day’. Upping your intake of vegetables has been shown to reduce your chance of heart attack, stroke and cancer.�?But have…

  • Research shows Skinny People at risk of Diabetes!

    Fed up being told of the dangers of being fat? We all know it by now - if you’re overweight, you could be seriously harming your health. Well here’s some refreshing news - a new study from the Nutrition Journal has revealed that it’s not just obese people that are putting themselves at risk of…

  • Can’t sleep? Why taking the Blue Pill is Best! (Unless you’re an Italian man)

    Insomnia is something all of us struggle with from time to time. Not being able to get off to sleep is perhaps one of the most frustrating and loathsome things in the world (second only to an itchy back). You can toss, turn, and even count sheep, but nothing seems to work. Sometimes your mind…

  • The Top 10 Medical TV Myths

    Everyone loves a good hospital drama. They tick all the boxes for good TV: Gritty plots, life and death situations, steamy relationships, ethical dilemmas and blood and gore. Now more popular than ever, medical TV dramas have come a long way in the last 50 years. But just how accurate are they? You might be…

  • How a Chocolate Indulgence can be Good for You! (but not your dog)

    Chocolate is the nation’s favourite indulgence. Every year we collectively chomp our way through four Olympic stadiums worth of the stuff. Today’s blog is all about enjoying chocolate and leaving the�?New Year’s resolutions for another day. Research shows that the healthy chemicals from chocolate will soon be making their way into�?the next generation of cold…

  • Xbox ‘Kinect’, Playstation and Wii: Is playing Video Games bad for you?

    Have you decided what to buy for Christmas yet? In the UK, we spent over £2 billion on video games most households have at least one games console. Chances are that someone you love will want a video game for Christmas this year. Oh how things have changed…. Video gaming to be all about sweaty…

  • The Mystery of the Itchy Nose!

     Do you get an itchy nose or itchy palms after eating? Lots of us do; especially after takeaway food, cheese, hams or drinking red wine. Some of us get runny noses and some of us are even allergic to certain foods. My wife challenged me to find out why she gets an itchy nose after eating… Read on…

  • Can You Cure the Common Cold?

    Curing the common cold sparked a debate in the office at work yesterday: It was reported in the news that�?the “cure for the common cold” had been found.�?�?It sounds exciting but like much science reporting in the media: it’s�?fantastically over-exaggerated. The ‘ground-breaking’ research gives interesting insights into how our immune system�?works (the intricacies of will…