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Following a healthy diet and ensuring we get a good amount of exercise will help us to live longer. Many of us chase these “fad diets” to lose weight. Are we all too concerned about our size? Some people want immediate results, but this is not healthy. Our body needs many of the foods we [...]

Nurses are constantly moving. There are long hours and tedious shifts with little time for respite. When you come home from work, you want to spend it relaxing or with your family. The last thing on your mind is preparing lunch for the following day. This can result in making a trip to the local [...]

August 16 – Online treatment programmes for obesity are successful and cost-effective, according to a new analysis. Weight loss or weight maintenance programmes delivered online or by computer help overweight and obese patients lose or maintain their weight, conclude researchers led by Dr Susan Wieland of the University of Maryland, Baltimore, USA. Their Cochrane review [...]

August 14 – Middle-aged gardening and housework all help to make the heart stronger, British researchers reported last night. A ten-year study by University College London, England, found that leisure time activities such as vigorous gardening, housework and home maintenance, as well as sports, are important to health. Writing in Circulation, Dr Mark Hamer, of [...]

July 10 – Spending too much time sitting down in front of the television or at work may shorten life, according to research published today. US researchers found that Americans could add two years to their life by limiting their daily time sitting down to three hours. Cutting it to two hours could add another [...]

I’ve been bored lately with the same old salad that I make myself every day for lunch so I asked my friend Erin Kuh, who is a Registered Dietician in the USA, for some more exciting salad ideas.  She recently just sent out the following newsletter to her clients.  Click “read the rest” for some [...]

The so-called Mediterranean diet remains one of the healthiest ways to eat, experts said yesterday. A major analysis of research on diet shows that the diet cuts heart attacks and some kinds of cancer. People who eat the diet are likely to live longer than others, according to the British Medical Journal analysis. The study [...]

While it doesn’t quite feel like summer yet in the UK, we all hope it is right around the corner.  Some of you lucky ones also have plans for some nice beach vacations soon.  We all know what that means…time to get out the swimsuit!  I’m sure we all wish we were a bit firmer [...]

March 5 – Inactivity may be a bigger threat to women’s health than to men’s, according to new findings. The difference occurs among people, such as some office workers, who spend long periods seated every day, according to Leicester University researchers. Researcher Dr Thomas Yates says it may not be enough for a woman to [...]

January 25 – New research, published today, contradicts the widespread advice to avoid fried foods in order to protect the heart. Professor Pilar Guallar-Castillon, of the Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain, and her team looked at the risk in 40,757 adults who were followed for about 11 years. All participants were free of heart disease [...]