Ra 4 Food - Health and Nutritional Tips

Do you consider yourself fit enough to be on the road? Do you meet the standard of peek and optimum health, eyesight and reaction time? Do you need to start getting to the gym and eating your five a day before you will be allowed behind the wheel? Well, not quite, but things are set [...]

The NHS drugs watchdog have today announced that there will be some hope for terminal cancer sufferers in 2009, as certain previously unavailable drugs will be offered to people with specific types of cancer.

Chairman of the National Institute for Clinical Excellence, Professor Sir Michael Rawlins, revealed new rules would apply when doctors deem which drugs [...]

New statistics have today revealed that the amount of recorded MRSA cases has decreased by as much as 13 per cent in the last three months - and overall by 33 per cent compared to this time last year.
Records form the Health Protection Agency (HPA) show that from July to September there were only 725 [...]

Sugar makes kids hyperactive
Most parents will be used to seeing their child jumping about the room like a Mexican bean after a sugar hit. However, researchers are claiming sugar is not the reason for their hyperactivity. Trials were carried out to investigate exactly how children changed according to varying levels of sugar in their diet [...]

Hold on to your wine glasses you grape lovers, as a doctor in Australia has announced that he has produced the healthiest drink in the world - a wine that actually cleans your arteries while you drink it!
The man in question, Philip Norrie makes wine in his vineyard in New South Wales, that he claims [...]

New research shows that people are more susceptible to obesity if they have overweight family members, as inherited eating habits seems to be a leading cause of the problem.
Seven genetic variants found to affect obesity imply that DNA’s overriding effect on the body is not to regulate how fat is stored, but to target the [...]

A new report reveals that obesity rates in children in England are still dangerously high, despite aggressive healthy living campaigns.
The NHS Information Centre’s most recent statistics show that a quarter of children aged 4 or 5 are overweight. A third of children aged 10 or 11 are also overweight, despite government targets to reduce these [...]

News has today been announced of a woman who passed away after consuming four litres of water in less than two hours, while the company responsible for manufacturing the meal replacement regime she was undergoing, have denied their product played a part in her death.
The woman in question was named to be Jacqueline Henson, aged [...]

A new centre has opened in France, with the aim to tackle two of the most prominent questions on many a chef’s lips: what constitutes a ‘good’ meal and how is it possible to encourage children to eat their vegetables?
The French Government have endorsed the research with an official stamp of approval, in what some [...]

The government have today announced a new initiative in the battle to reduce the number of smokers in Britain. Cigarettes will no longer be allowed to be seen out on display in shops and supermarkets.
Health Secretary Alan Johnson revealed that the change will be implemented by 2011 for supermarkets and 2013 for small shops/newsagents. Ministers [...]