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 50s, seeing well in the dark is probably not their [...]
"These findings created an uproar among my colleagues," explains cardiologist Carl Lavie. The surprising conclusion of his 2003 study was that – under certain conditions – the people who lived the longest were the fattest. Since then, hundreds of scientific papers have confirmed that overweight or even obese people with [...]
Nowadays, when you hear about blood pressure you usually hear about high blood pressure. And rightly so. When your blood pressure is continually high, it puts your heart, arteries and other organs in danger. But blood pressure that’s too low can also be risky. Low blood pressure can make you [...]
If you’re like most people, you have a bunch of appliances in your home, like a refrigerator, microwave and dishwasher. And chances are you’re using some kind of electronic device right now to read this. What all these have in common is they emit EMFs (electromagnetic frequencies). So does the [...]
It's one of those myths so well established in the minds of doctors and the public it's almost impossible to shift: The idea that reducing cholesterol has a major impact on heart disease. It's arguable whether it has even the slightest impact, but with so much money and so many [...]
I remember when I first saw the pictures taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. Suddenly we could see amazing nebulas, the remains of supernova explosions and distant galaxies. They were there all along, but we just didn’t have the technology to see them. New technology is reshaping how we see [...]
Left untreated it can lead to strokes, heart failure and death. Yet atrial fibrillation (AF) -- the most common form of irregular heartbeat -- is forecast to grow to epidemic proportions within the next decade or two as the population ages. One of the risk factors for AF is sleep [...]
In Finland, they start taking them in childhood. That's because many families have a unit in their homes. In fact, even with a population of only 5½ million, there are at least one million saunas in use, with most Finns taking at least one bath a week. The sauna is [...]
Jonathan Searle couldn’t have been prouder. The teacher walked away from The Bottle Inn as the 2017 winner of the World Nettle Eating Championship. Nettle eating? Really? Really. July seems like a good time to talk about this common weed -- and in a good way, for a change. I [...]
