How vitamin D can improve muscle strength

Feb 16, 2017 06:19 am UTC| Health

One of the most important vitamins for your health is vitamin D. It allows the body to absorb calcium and phosphate from your diet, which are essential for the development of healthy bones. However, we have found that...

Why sitting is not the 'new smoking'

Feb 16, 2017 00:54 am UTC| Life Health

Sitting has been branded the new smoking for its supposed public health risks, especially for people with sit-down office jobs. Over the past 15 years or so sitting has been linked with cancer, heart disease and...

Obese does not necessarily mean unhealthy

Feb 15, 2017 09:35 am UTC| Health

Self-proclaimed weight loss hypnosis master Steve Miller has announced a campaign to see all overweight NHS staff wearing badges that read Im fat, but Im losing it. He also wants all restaurant menus to carry the warning...

How best to prepare for epidemics? Strengthen primary care

Feb 15, 2017 06:30 am UTC| Health

In global public health, 2016 was a year defined by the end of two important emergencies: Ebola and Zika. But that doesnt mean the risk either of these viruses pose has gone away. Zika transmission continues despite the...

Before pregnancy even starts, healthy weight in mums and dads lowers obesity risk in children

Feb 15, 2017 06:23 am UTC| Health

Children born to obese women have double the chance of being obese themselves by age two, compared to children born to women of a recommended body mass index (BMI). Childhood obesity is also strongly linked with obesity in...

Immunity During Pregnancy Determined By Baby’s Sex, Study States

Feb 14, 2017 05:34 am UTC| Science Health

The immune system of pregnant women fluctuate throughout the course of the nine months carrying the child or children, this is an established fact. However, the sex of the baby as the factor has always been more of...

Goosebumps, tears and tenderness: what it means to be moved

Feb 09, 2017 12:52 pm UTC| Health

Emotion embodies motion. When we experience emotions were are agitated and stirred, transported and animated. Motion is at the root of the word itself: emotion comes from the Latin, meaning to move out or away. Many...