Archive for July, 2008

Keeping Calm is Something your Born With

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

 
We’ve all blow a fuse before when something hasn’t went quite how we planned, and there is nothing worse than someone telling you to ‘calm down’. Well now, thanks to research you can tell them that telling you to calm down won’t work – scientists have found that a nervous disposition is something we are [...]

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BMA Poll Shows Confidence in NHS Has all but Gone

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

A survey by the British Medical Association has found that half of the population believe they will have to pay the NHS for health care within a decade. And 93 per cent of those surveyed believe the NHS should continue to be funded from taxes and remain free at the point of use.
The results of [...]

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Managing your Diet

Monday, July 7th, 2008

The carbohydrates are the starches and sugars which are the main providers of energy for keeping the body working and coping with the activities we undertake. Western man has about half his diet in the form of carbohydrate but in the east it constitutes up to 90% usually taken as grains.
The refining of carbohydrates [...]

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Cure for the Broken Hearted

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

While there are tales of people dying of a broken heart, such sayings have long been relegated to the fantasy bin. However, recent research has shown that there are true connections between depression and heart disease.
Depression was once considered to be only a psychological disorder with no physiological underpinnings. However, it is now known that [...]

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Eating Junk Food During Pregnancy Could Harm Your Baby

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

 
If you have a poor diet while you are pregnant or breastfeeding you could cause long-term damage to your child, animal studies have found. The offspring of rats that were fed fatty, processed food had high levels of fat in their bloodstream and around major organs even after adolescence.
 
The study, by the Royal Veterinary College [...]

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