Ra 4 Food - Health and Nutritional Tips

Researchers reveal today that people are dying from heart disease unnecessarily due to incompetencies in the standard Electrocardiogram (ECG) test that is used to diagnose many patients.
Studies were carried out by doctors at the London Chest Hospital. Data they collected from 4,873 patients who received an ECG when suffering from pain in the chest area, [...]

Oddly shaped and imperfect fruit and vegetables will be shunned no more, as the EU reverses their decision to ban them from our shelves.
EU agricultural officers have made the decision to abort the regulations on size and shape for 26 types of fruit and vegetable, which should make for funner and ultimately cheaper mealtimes. An [...]

A new study reveals that chemotherapy could be more damaging to cancer patients than beneficial, and doctors are being told to think carefully before offering it.
The Department of Health last week advised a shake up was in order with cancer patients having better access to the newest drugs on the market, which could add months [...]

New research into the use of statins on women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) reveal they are just as effective from reducing symptoms as the current treatment - and in some cases they have been better.
In a different trial, the hormonal condition was shown to be linked to patients with a vitamin D deficiency - [...]

A new report released yesterday shows evidence of a reduction in blood clots for air passengers who received the flu vaccination. The so-called “economy class syndrome” can affect people travelling on long haul flights who have little leg room, and thus increase their chances of a blood clot developing.
The results of the research display a [...]

Britain’s most popular TV chef, Jamie Oliver, has today voiced his fears over a nation of fat people over the next ten years developing into what he describes as a “horror show” unless action is taken now.
At a news conference he commented, “The obesity problem is an epidemic, it’s a massive problem. If we don’t [...]

A new report out today has revealed that women who suffer from migraines actually have a substantially reduced risk of developing breast cancer.
The study shows that females who cope with severe, continual headaches have a 30 per cent lower risk of being diagnosed with the disease than that of women who do not suffer from [...]

Pregnant women are advised to drink no more than two cups of coffee a day to cut the risk of giving birth to underweight babies.
After a recent report last week about women being able to afford a little more alcohol while pregnant, the Food Standards Agency (FSA) are now revising their advice about caffeine consumption. [...]

The number of incidents involving the lethal bug listeria has more than doubled recently, initiating warnings about chilled and ready made meals.
In the last seven years, statistics show that cases have risen from 200 to over 400 a year - and as much as a fifth of that is in the last year alone, reports [...]

It has emerged today that the level of treatment and care cancer patients receive, is down to the total randomness of where they happen to live. The Tories have said that some primary care trusts
are spending double the amount on drug treatment in comparison to less well funded areas, in the so-called “post-code lottery”.
New figures [...]