Ra 4 Food - Health and Nutritional Tips

It is an issue that has been made extremely current and relevant since Jade Goody’s untimely death from cervical cancer earlier in the year. Now women aged 18 to 54 are being given the opportunity to avoid the same devastating heartache Jade and her family went through after Boots - the high street’s most popular [...]

The Good Beer Guide has announced that Britain leads the way in being the location of the most small breweries of any industrialised nation, with last year seeing the opening of at least 71 new ventures.
It seems that to try and tackle the fast failing industry with pub closures and drops in beer sales, a [...]

A link has been found between a virus common for causing leukaemia in animals and human prostate cancer, meaning the disease could possibly have a viral origin.
If this is the case, improved screening and a vaccine could be developed to protect against the disease.
Current risk factors associated with prostate cancer are family history, old age [...]

A senior emergency consultant has today announced his plea for the NHS to assign an alcohol liaison officer in every A&E department to give support and advice to patients being admitted with an alcohol related problem.
Dr Zul Mirza, president of the Royal Society of Medicine’s Emergency Medicine Section advised that patients are at their most [...]

The Government certainly are taking childhood obesity pretty seriously – and rightly so as it is an increasingly significant concern with trends of very young overweight children rising all the time. Now primary school children as young as four will be encouraged to attend “weight management” courses as health trusts around the country are being [...]

Rejoice all you big-thighed lovelies out there – new research has suggested that those with thinner trunks are at a ‘higher-than-average’ risk of getting heart disease at an early age.
Scientists conducting the study revealed that people with a thigh circumference of less than 60cms had an increased chance of developing cardiovascular diseases or die early [...]

Researchers have suggested approximately 1,300 young people could now be taking anti-obesity drugs every year.
As the drugs are only for adult use, this indicates family GP’s are providing them to youngsters off-license.
The study, published in the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, analysed the use of orlistat (Xenical), sibutramine (Reductil) and rimonabant (Acomplia) in young [...]

Following a sharp increase in the number of babies being diagnosed with spina bifda, women of child-bearing age are urged to take folic acid supplements - regardless of whether they are planning to start a family.
The Scottish Spina Bifida Association (SSBA) reported that 15 babies in Scotland were born with the condition this year - [...]

The word Tequila brings to many people’s mind, bad drinking memories and even worse hangovers. The Mexican national firewater is quintessentially associated very quick inebriation facilitated by a wedge of lime and a mouth twisting pinch of salt.

However, it seems us Brit’s taste have become slightly more discerning of late, as premium tequilas are increasingly [...]