What happens to your body due to overeating? The average person’s stomach can cope with around one and one-and-a-half litres of food before feeling the urge to throw up, but can stretch to accommodate four times that much before a rupture occurs. Your stomach expands like a balloon and pushes against the other organs making […]
Britain’s teenage girls are ditching dairy, according to a survey among 2,000 UK adults, including over 1,000 parents, which showed that almost 1 in 5 teenage girls aged 13-19 are drinking less milk than two years ago, and 1 in 6 have cut it out of their diets altogether. Sophie Medlin, leading dietitian and lecturer […]
Type 2 diabetes is a public health emergency and the number of people with this disorder has almost doubled since 1996 to nearly four million today. Most people diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, which occurs when the body is no longer able to keep blood sugar levels under control, are put on a lifelong drug […]
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Losing weight is quite a battle. It requires an endless amount of discipline, both in the kitchen and in the gym. You need to consistently and regularly move your body, building an exercise routine which suits you, but you also need to keep a healthy and balanced lifestyle at home, eating everything in moderation and […]
Boxing day has arrived and we can all look forward to eating leftovers for the next few days. Take heart though – Christmas fare, in moderation, can actually be good for you, even if aren’t really looking forward to curried turkey salad and refried sprouts. Brussels sprouts These contain more than your daily requirement of […]
We all like to over indulge at Christmas and most of us can get away with feasting on delicious turkey, mince pies, brandy cream and champagne. The average person eats around a whopping 5,240 calories on Christmas Day, including a lot of fat. Most of us can get away with it. But overeating is dangerous […]
Becoming a vegan – eating only plant-based foods – is a personal choice that is often driven by the desire to feel healthier, as well as showing support for animal welfare. Today more and more celebrities are following the vegan trend, but is this really the way to go? Let’s take a look at the […]
Britain is facing a Type 2 diabetes epidemic of unprecedented proportions. Around seven million adults in the UK are estimated to have prediabetes without realising it – putting them a 50 per cent chance of developing full-blown diabetes within ten years. So what it Prediabetes? Prediabetes is not a medical condition in itself – and there […]
Low phosphate in the blood is linked to the risk of heart attack and coronary artery disease, a new study in the journal PLOS One reports. Researchers from the University of Surrey found that insufficient levels of phosphate in the blood may pose a particular danger to cardiovascular health, contradicting previous research in this area, […]
A new drug being trialled for treating breast cancer and diabetes has been shown to ‘melt away’ the fat inside arteries that can cause heart attacks and strokes. Researchers from the University of Aberdeen, using pre-clinical mouse models, showed that just a single dose of the drug (Trodusquemine) completely reversed the effects of a disease […]