Are you suffering from constipation? Ahead of Bowel Cancer Awareness Month, Dr Tim Woodman, Medical Director, Policy and Cancer Services, Bupa UK Insurance, explores the UK’s top Googled searches around not being able to ‘go’, and shares advice for anyone seeking help. Constipation can have many possible causes, from being dehydrated to not moving around […]
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More than 40% of women suffer from constipation during pregnancy and right after childbirth: Women are 2–3 times more likely to suffer from constipation during pregnancy and right after childbirth than at any other time in their life, a new study from the University of Eastern Finland shows. “However, constipation-related problems subside surprisingly quickly after delivery,” […]
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“What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance,” cried Jane Austen. Inelegance is the least of some people’s worries when it comes to the hot weather. For some health conditions, a heatwave can be distressing, and even dangerous. Seven health conditions that are harder to cope with in […]
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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 […]