The key to eating five fruit and veg a day might just be to make them more tasty

Apr 11, 2017 13:50 pm UTC| Health

Pea tart might be the key to winning hearts and minds in the war against poor nutrition. We are deluged with advice and guidance about what we should eat and in what volumes, but still adults and children alike struggle to...

Tobacco tax hikes are great, so long as you’re not a poor smoker

Apr 11, 2017 06:23 am UTC| Insights & Views Law Health

Tobacco tax increases in Australia that will see a packet of cigarettes costing A$40 may discourage smoking, but will end up having unintended consequences for poorer smokers, new research shows. According to our...

In Bangladesh, people are eating more fish but getting less nutrition from it

Apr 11, 2017 05:38 am UTC| Health

People in Bangladesh are now eating 30% more fish than they did 20 years ago, but they are getting a smaller amount of important nutrients from it, a new study shows. Fish is widely known as a healthy food, rich in...

Enzymes versus nerve agents: Designing antidotes for chemical weapons

Apr 11, 2017 04:48 am UTC| Health

A chemical weapons attack that killed more than 80 people, including children, triggered the Trump administrations recent missile strikes against the Syrian government. The use of illegal nerve agents apparently by the...

Snout, sniff and sneeze: the language of the nose

Apr 11, 2017 04:42 am UTC| Health

Ralph Waldo Emerson once said that language is fossil poetry. It is made up, he said, of images which have long ceased to remind us of their poetic origin. Some of that poetry is on the nose. An extraordinary number of...

Why ADHD can be a valuable bonus for entrepreneurs

Apr 10, 2017 13:59 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health Business

Entrepreneurship is about moving forwards. It involves branching out, a search for the new, starting a journey in which the destination is unknown. In a sense then, it is not an entirely rational process, in which actions...

Go Ahead And Keep Judging Others, Study Says It’s A Good Thing

Apr 10, 2017 13:37 pm UTC| Health

Society often discourages people from judging others despite being made of a wholly judgmental populace. As it turns out, looking down on others for being despicable is actually a good thing, at least to some extent....