Ra 4 Food - Health and Nutritional Tips

It looks like those good people over at Which? are looking out for us once again, as their newest report condemns the makers of cereals for packing them full of the sweet stuff. In their Cereal Offenders report they reveal a whopping 92 out of 200 cereals were allocated with an FSA red or amber [...]

Scientists have for the first time established a common genetic link to autism and yesterday confirmed as many as 15 per cent of cases could be accounted for under this new discovery.

Three separate studies have made implications to suggest alterations on connections in the brain could be responsible for some cases.
Although the breakthrough does not [...]

So you have tried every single diet there is going - Atkins, Low GI, Low GL - even the dreaded ‘cabbage soup’ diet - and still no results? Then perhaps you are one of the many thousands predicted to try what some people are dubbing the ‘miracle cure’, as the first over the counter weight [...]

Ok, so we all thought that travelling expands your horizons and holidays relax you right? Well listen up, as the World Health Organisation (WHO) would like to present a rather different theory - travelling abroad can be so stressful that it could lead to a development of mental health issues. So we all know queuing [...]

Campaigners are unhappy about a new change to what is regarded as nutritious food - for example custard tarts, sausage rolls and shock horror - doughnuts - will fall under the category of healthy food.

Cancer Research, the National Heart Foundation and Which? claim the European Commission have set new criteria for food to meet to [...]

So, you’ve decided to give the old chippy a miss at lunch time and gone for a guilt free packed sandwich instead? Well you better check and double check the label, as reports revealed some shop bought sandwiches come complete with more salt than 11 bags of crisps put together, not to mention the grotesque [...]

A little ray of hope for some cancer sufferers - or perhaps just a sunny antidote. A woman from Northern Ireland has stunned doctors and went against all the odds by beating terminal cancer - after her tumour mysteriously disappeared.  There is speculation that her own immune system battled off the lethal mass of cells.
When [...]

An inquest into how 10 elderly patients died at a Portsmouth hospital has reached the verdict that three of them accidentally given morphine overdoses, which ultimately resulted in their deaths.

A further two patients also had injections of the drugs which helped to speed their deaths but did not cause it, where the jury found the [...]

As many as 50 per cent of all people coping with depression in Britain have not been given sufficient advice on where to get help, reports new research, published this week.

Daring to Chose is a report carried out by the charity Depression Alliance and its findings reveal that two-thirds of depressed people come away from [...]

So it seems there could be another reason to encourage kids to get the greens in their diet - studies now reveal that they - along with liver - have asthma fighting effects.

Scientists discovered that those with a lack of vitamin A or C in their diet had lower defenses against developing the respiratory condition.
Great [...]