Ra 4 Food - Health and Nutritional Tips

One year since to the smoking ban took effect in England, a report issued today says that 400,000 people have quit, and more than two billion fewer cigarettes were smoked. Researchers believe this will prevent 40,000 deaths over the next ten years.
Smoking was outlawed on July 1st 2007, after a lengthy battle that divided the [...]

 
A leading academic, who will today speak at a conference in London today, claims the Pill is “outdated” and leads to more unwanted pregnancies costing the NHS £100 million a year.
 
James Trussell, of Princeton University, New Jersey, says that nearly one in 12 women who takes the Pill stand to become pregnant each year by [...]

Today we hear the word diet much more than we hear the word nutrition. There are so many diets on the market that it’s easy to get lost in the fad and forget what nutrition truly is. There is the Atkins Diet, the Zone Diet, Weight Watchers and many others, from Slim Fast to the [...]

 
A drug used to tackle the crippling problem of obesity has been approved for use in England and Wales for NHS use, even though the drug is linked to depression and suicide.
 
Rimonabant is already used by thousands of Britons, and if used with regular exercise can help patients shed up to ten percent of their [...]

The School Food Trust wants to clamp down on parents who do not comply with their children’s school healthy-eating policy, by sending out warning letters. Also in a patronising fashion, parents who pack a good lunch for their children will get a congratulatory letter.
 
The majority of schools already ask that children are not given crisps, [...]

 
With everyone talking about getting your five-a-day, we wondered just how easy that is in today’s economic climate. With fuel prices soaring along with the cost of living, ensuring we get our recommended daily amount of fruit can be that last thing on our mind. You should try to persevere though, so here’s what we [...]

 
Would you want your five year old child to be taught about sex? Ministers are proposing that schools teach children as young as 5 about relationships and older pupils are to receive more specific advice about pregnancy, contraception and sexually transmitted disease’s.
 
Government figures released yesterday show that in England and Wales, although the numbers of [...]

 
Research by scientists at the Imperial College of London has found that testing the phlegm and breath of young children with severe asthma, could spare them from potentially damaging oral steroid drugs by over a third over a three year period.
 
The tests could help spot the early signs of the condition, allowing it to be [...]

 
Minister’s have caved to public pressure and reversed their decision over rules denying NHS patients the rights to top up their care with treatment paid for privately.
 
Health secretary Alan Johnson announced a review yesterday of the current policy which requires patients who choose to buy drugs not available on the NHS to pay the whole [...]

 
We’ve all been stressed out after a long day at work, so rather than cooking a nice meal we dive headlong in to a bag of chilli Doritos, Ben and Jerry’s ice cream or three glasses of wine and a breadstick.
 
Comfort eating has never really needed a reason, sometimes it feels good to gorge yourself [...]