As reported on www.express.co.uk a new project is unlocking the secrets of the brain using light – and raising hopes for a new class of drugs to treat psychiatric diseases. The research could lead to pills being developed to combat depression, anxiety, paranoia and obsessive-compulsive disorder. American scientists implanted special light-sensitive proteins into the […]
Are you chronically tired all the time and fed up with constantly complaining about feeling so exhausted? The Daily Mail’s on-line health blog found here www.dailymail.com has a great article posted which gives seven possible reasons you may be feeling that way. Read on for some interesting suggestions and find out how […]
With Angelina Jolie in the news again after bravely under going preventative surgery, lots of people are confused about whether traumatic surgery for something that has not happened is the right choice. The BBC wrote a great article that gives a good insight into what makes people make that choice. While […]
…..you do the dishes by hand. Well, we didn’t say you were going to like it. Researchers in Sweden found that children living in families that hand-washed their dishes were about 40 percent less likely to develop allergies compared with kids in homes that used a dishwasher, said study researcher […]
Spinach makes you strong like Popeye – that we all know! But, seriously, do we actually know why we need different vitamins and minerals and what they actually do to benefit our health? www.msn.com have some great articles on individual vitamins and minerals and offer tasty recipes which will get […]
More than a million adults in the UK may be wrongly diagnosed as asthmatic and be receiving unnecessary medication as a result, warns an NHS watchdog. NICE says a third of adults diagnosed with this common lung condition have no actual clinical signs of asthma. But people should not stop […]
A brilliant article published on www.expathealth.org gives us more reason to dust off our Learning Spanish books and CD’s. Being bilingual it seems can have, among other benefits, the ability to delay Alzheimer’s by up to 5 years. The study, from Ghent University in Belgium, found a link between being bilingual and […]
Happy New Year to all our readers and clients. We had a great time over the holidays and hope you all did too. Now we are in 2015, fresh start, new beginnings and if you are still keeping up with your resolutions well done! You’ve lasted longer than most. Despite […]
If you were lucky enough to get an eBook from father Christmas this year you may be disappointed to read the article featured on www.bbc.co.uk but it appears that ebooks can ‘damage sleep and health’ according to some US doctors. A team from Harvard Medical School compared reading paper books and […]
Great tips to be had on www.health.co.uk. In particular we were drawn to a really helpful article written by Ron McDiarmid, who is the founder of My Healthy Living Coach (www.myhealthylivingcoach.com). If you’ve ever thought the only way to detox your body was via the painful juicing procedure, there is […]
