Although there is no hard and fast rule, your build will make a difference to the kind of sports which suit you best. Choosing to concentrate on exercise regimes which work with your natural body type and shape will help you get best results with less risk of injury. Slim and lightweight (Ectomorph) People who […]
They may be prickly to the touch and bitter to the taste, but cacti, and other spiky desert plants, have long been credited with many amazing healing properties. Weight loss: Hoodia gordonii is a huge six foot high succulent which can has been hailed as Nature’s slimming aid. The plant, which is covered with spines […]
Produced and performed by Stanford medical students! Stanford University School of Medicine’s music video parody on Meghan Trainor’s “Dear Future Husband.” […]
The good news is that chocolate is not only a delicious treat, but can also confer health benefits, if you eat the right type in the right quantities. We talk to nutritionist Professor Andrew Prentice, of the Medical Research Council’s International Nutrition Group about his views on the health giving properties of chocolate and also Dr Ian Wilson who […]
Rigoletto was the catalyst. It had been 12 years since I last lived in Italy and sitting in Covent Garden listening to this opera, I suddenly really wanted to go back. I closed my eyes and was back among the Umbrian hills with my wife, singing opera in our Mini while driving to Assisi. The […]
As you tuck into your Christmas stocking chocolates, be aware that chocolate is said to be a contributory factor to nasty heartburn. Chemicals in chocolate apparently cause the cells in the intestines to produce large amounts of serotonin – a muscle relaxant which causes the lower oesophageal sphincter to open, permitting acid from the stomach […]
Maya Fiennes is a well respected Kundalini yoga practitioner and instructor, based in Los Angeles. Trained as a classical pianist, Maya first found Kundalini Yoga when she was looking for something to help calm her pre-performance nerves. She tried other forms of Yoga, but it was Kundalini Yoga that gave her the key to relaxing […]
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The morning after the night before. Before you even open your eyes you can feel the familiar throbbing behind one eye that follows a night of one too many drinks. It slowly intensifies into a full-blown pounding of your entire cranium, the source of which seems to be a miniature sledgehammer repeatedly smacking your skull from […]
There are a certain group of patients who have a lot of build up of hard deposits on their teeth which need to be carefully removed by hygienists at regular intervals-from every three months to once a year. But beneath the unsightly scale, their teeth are gleaming and perfect –protected from decay by their unusually […]
Smell is a wonderful sense. It is intimately linked to our taste and our appreciation of foods and drinks. It is also an important sense for our safety, allowing us to detect gas, smoke, rotten food and other toxic chemicals. Reduced sense of smell is called hyposmia. Complete loss of smell is called anosmia. All […]
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