In less than 15 years, vitamin D has gone from a near-pariah that could harm you if you took more than 400 i.u. per day to a health miracle – now acknowledged even by mainstream doctors – and likely needed by most people in doses of at least 5,000 i.u. [...]
If you want to be as healthy as possible, you have to get a bit of daily exercise. And to get the best results, it pays to use certain combinations of exercises – even if you don’t want to spend too much time and effort on the whole enterprise. Now, [...]
Trying to eat a healthier diet and lose weight, but find that your appetite for treats and junk foods sabotages your efforts? There’s some good news – researchers have turned up dependable ways to fight off those cravings. Investigations into how your brain and body control appetite offer some simple [...]
During the second World War, the UK Ministry for Food urged citizens to eat plenty of carrots. The bureaucrats explained that carrots gave fighter pilots superb night vision, and would help civilians see well during blackouts. But for today's over 50 population, seeing well in the dark is probably not [...]
