Public Health England’s statistics show that over a third (38%) of first time strokes happen in middle aged adults (between the ages of 40 – 69). More...
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22nd Mar 2026 | Updated at 04:41pm 22nd Mar 2026
HIDDEN SALT, HIDDEN RISK
- 25 Feb 2026
It slips into our diets silently, hiding in plain sight. Salt, an everyday staple, has become one of the easiest nutrients to overconsume. The NHS recommends that adults limit their intake to no more than 6 grams per day, roughly the equivalent...
Five everyday aches physiotherapy can actually fix
- 22 Jan 2026
Most of us have at least one ache we’ve learned to live with. The stiff neck, the lower back pain, or the shoulder that hurts for no obvious reason.
Women are usually subjected to remarks and retorts about their biological clock, and at times pressurised or hastened to have children before they are...
Public Health England has declared, “Britain needs to go on a diet”.There is no denying that obesity is a big epidemic in the UK and with cheap junk food...
The existence of avocado dates back to 10,000 BC, while its cultivation occurred in parts of central and southern America. This fruit reached Indonesia...
According to a survey of the public's knowledge of what causes and what does not cause cancer, half of Britons mistakenly believe that stress can lead...
A team of researchers at the NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre (BRC), UK, has found evidence to show that South Asian people (from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka) in Britain are less likely to require a pacemaker for an abnormally...
UK millennials are on track to be the most overweight generation since records began, health experts say. Based on population trends, more than seven in every 10 people born between the early 1980s and mid-90s will be too fat by the time they...
A long-awaited report into how the government makes decisions about which vaccines to fund has been published. It follows calls for greater transparency about why a vaccine to protect children against meningitis B was not made more widely available.
When it comes to the long list of supplements out there, magnesium and vitamin D both top the list as ones doctors most recommend. (Probiotics are up there too, by the way.)
Quinoa (pronounced keen-wah) and other ancient grains, such as amaranth, barley, and farro are rapidly growing in popularity because of their wide array...
