Does foam rolling actually do any good?
Foam rolling was once for professional athletes only. These days it’s hard to walk into a gym without tripping over […]
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Artificial sweeteners linked to diabetes and obesity
Many countries have introduced a sugar tax in order to improve the health of their citizens. As a result, food
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Drinking a pint of beer may lower your life expectancy by the same amount as smoking a cigarette – new research
Earlier research has suggested that drinking moderate amounts of alcohol may lower a person’s risk of heart disease. However, our
Fact Check: is it bad for your health to eat food fried in olive oil?
It recently has been suggested that using vegetable oils to fry food may be bad for your health due to
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Artificial sweeteners may make you fat
With nearly 40% of the world’s population now classified as obese, and increasing evidence pointing to sugar as the culprit,
Forget Food Quantity. It’s Food Quality That Is Important: 7 ways to improve the quality of the food you are eating
If you missed my recent series of posts ‘The science behind weight loss‘ that separated the myths about dieting from
Have we got the causes of type 2 diabetes wrong?
The proportion of adults with diabetes around the world has risen from 4.7% in 1980 to more than 8.5% today.
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Three reasons why scientific advice on drugs is ignored
David Nutt, along with many other leading scientists, published a study a few years ago that showed how the overall
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Parents, stop nagging kids not to forget – set visual cues instead
Every day, we have to remember intentions to perform specific tasks in the future. We may need to remember to
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The dark side of daydreaming
Daydreaming is one of life’s great joys. You can indulge in it when you’re stuck in a boring meeting or