Ra 4 Food - Health and Nutritional Tips

Superfoods are great for improving personal health. Here are the top 10 superfoods.

The National Institute for clinical excellence – NICE – has recommended major changes round convenience & processed food.
NICE – The UK’s leading health watchdog - has challenged both the government & the food industry to take action to improve the nation’s health through diet, saying that this should no longer just be a matter for [...]

Eating disorder charities are concerned that a marked rise in people obsessed with healthy eating may be indicative of a serious psychological condition.
Sufferers typically have strict rules around eating. Certain foods - such as sugar, salt, caffeine, gluten & dairy - are out, as are foods that contain artificial additives or may have come into [...]

A new study has revealed that motorists who do not use screen wash for their windscreen wipers are at risk of contracting the potentially fatal Legionnaires ‘disease.
According to the NHS website, ‘Legionnaires’ disease is a potentially fatal lung infection (pneumonia) that is caused by the bacteria legionella.
The condition is called Legionnaires’ disease because it was [...]

The importance of calcium for our bones has long been publicized, but it seems that taking too much in the form of supplements can seriously damage our health.
Advertising calcium supplements for the prevention & treatment of osteoporosis - a condition where bones become so brittle that they break easily - has encouraged their widespread use. [...]

Acupuncture has been regarded by many with scepticism. Now some new research evidences a scientific basis for its perceived beneficial effects.
Practiced throughout the world for around four thousand years since it was developed in China, the procedure of acupuncture involves the insertion of fine needles into the body at specific points. During a session that [...]

A new study published in the British Medical Journal looked at whether our teeth brushing habits are linked to the incidence of heart disease.
Over the past twenty years or so there has been an increasing interest in the possibility of there being a relationship between gum disease & heart disease. Experts don’t fully understand the [...]

Headache is one of the most frequent reasons for seeing a doctor. However, the medications taken to relieve the pain – both prescribed & over the counter - are often misused, with the ironic effect of causing rather than alleviating headaches.
Almost everyone gets a headache at some point, & for many the initial reaction is [...]

New research published in the scientific journal Sleep, claims to have found definitive evidence of a link between abnormal sleep patterns & premature death.
The study was carried out by scientists at the University of Warwick in the UK & the Federico 11 University medical school in Naples, Italy. Together they analysed the data from sixteen [...]

A new study suggests that a single examination of the bowel could cut the death rate from bowel cancer in people aged over fifty five by as much as forty three per cent!
Bowel cancer is the third most common cancer in the world, & it has a high mortality rate. In the UK alone it [...]