Ra 4 Food - Health and Nutritional Tips

Over the last 20 years the number of people taking vitamins has increased substantially with a number of reports showing that they can help to prolong life and wellbeing, but is it true?
A report from Copenhagen has today blown the situation wide open with a suggestion that certain vitamins may actually bring about premature death [...]

A team from Birmingham University have carried out an in depth study of pollution in the UK and found a direct correlation between pollution in areas of the country and occurrences of pneumonia. While there may be other factors at play to produce the figures, such as the social culture of the area, there [...]

As crazy as it may sound, the days of large offices for doctors seem to have long gone with many now “desk hopping” as the various Health Trusts around the UK look to cut more and more from their bottom line costs. But is this starting to affect the services on offer?
Many doctors are [...]

While tea and coffee are still the most popular drinks around the world, there have been some rather strange developments in the coffee market with a coffee made out of cat dung – yes that is not a typo!
As if the fact that you were drinking coffee made out of cat dung was not bad [...]

While we have learnt today that the Food Standards Agency (FSA) are set to recommend to the UK government that 6 particular food additives are removed from food and drink by 2009, many are starting to ask why it has taken so long. The artificial colourings have been directly linked to hyperactivity in children [...]

While climate change has been on the political agenda for some time, there are tangible signs that it is starting to impact upon the health of the world’s population. We are seeing extreme weather conditions; we are seeing increased sufferers of asthma (and similar breathing conditions) as well as an increase in ill health [...]

Despite reports that a father has died after contracting bird flu from his son, health authorities around the world are adamant that this is not the big break through which many had feared and was just “a rare occurrence”. Quite how rare and how it happened is not certain but many people in the [...]

Over the last 10 years we have seen every single type of diet which you could ever imagine from the Lemonade diet to the GI diet to the Low Carb diet and on. While the evidence for each and every diet on the market can be compelling, how do some diets work for one [...]

So many decisions to make so much advice to ignore seems to be the motto of Gordon Brown at the moment as the UK prime minister seems set to over rule advice about the upgrading of Cannabis from group C to group B class drug. It was Gordon Brown himself who asked the Advisory [...]

While we have had sex changes and hormone replacement for years, we are set to see the first man give birth to a child with Thomas Beatie expecting a baby daughter in a few months time. It is well known that Mr Beatie was a lady before he had the “full sex change operation”, [...]