If you want to reduce your risk of getting Alzheimer’s disease, there is no end of advice on the internettelling you how to do it: keep your blood pressure and blood sugar in check, lose weight, exercise more, avoid getting type 2 diabetes.
- By Daniel Smith
Bipolar disorder is a serious condition of mood and behaviour that affects one in 50 people globally.
From the UK to Canada, China to India, around the world, yoga is big business. In 2016, Americans alone spent US$16 billion on yoga classes and products.
- By Allen Cheng
For most infections, the long-standing advice is to take a full course of antibiotics.
Belly fat affects the odds of women surviving kidney cancer but not men, a new study shows.
From fairly obscure beginnings in the mid-20th century, the practice of yoga in Britain has become a massively popular pastime.
Americans and others around the world have turned increasingly to dietary supplements in order to maintain or preserve their brain health.
UK employees have the longest working week compared to other workers in the European Union. But, despite the long hours, recent studies have shown this does not make the UK a more productive nation.
You may be familiar with the idea that your gut and skin are home to a collection of microbes – fungi, bacteria and viruses – that are vital for keeping you healthy.
Maybe it’s a bride standing in a hot chapel, or an exhausted runner after a race. It could be someone watching a medical procedure on television or a donor at a blood drive.
You vacuum it, sweep it and wipe it off your furniture. But do you know what it actually is – and how it may affect your health?
Have Americans forgotten how to cook? Many lament the fact that Americans spend less time cooking than they did in previous generations.
A vasectomy, or male sterilization, is a very effective, relatively simple option for permanent birth control.
The benefits of exercise may differ depending on the time of day when you work out, a new study in mice suggests.
As many as one in four women in the UK now give birth by caesarean section, the vast majority of them carried out by choice. The overall number has more than trebled in the last 40 years.
Salmon is not only tasty but is prized for being low fat and high in rich omega-3 oils.
If you’re a red meat-eater, there’s a good chance you’re eating more of it than you should. At last count, Australians ate an average of 81 grams of red meat per day.
People who identify with the “Quantified Self movement” are, as expressed in the movement’s motto, seeking “self-knowledge through self-tracking.”
Psychic or not, we all need to energize and balance our energy centers each day. The following exercises can be carried out every morning and throughout the day as needed. They will energise the body, pinpoints imbalanced areas, and enable us to attend to our own well-being.
According to the World Health Organisation, iron deficiency – a condition where your body doesn’t have enough of the mineral iron – is a global public health problem of “epidemic proportions”.
- By Malte Rödl
A few years ago, convincing meat-free “meat” was nothing more than a distant dream for most consumers.
- By Mathew White
The idea that spending recreational time in natural settings is good for our health and wellbeing is hardly new.