Ra 4 Food - Health and Nutritional Tips

Despite all the publicity about the serious health risks of tanning, some people just keep going back for more.
Repeated exposure to ultra violet light increases the risk of developing skin cancer, & research has shown that using sunbeds, particularly before the age of thirty five, increases the risk of both melanoma – the most serious [...]

Over ninety per cent of young people listen to a personal music player, many at full volume, which could cause permanent damage to their hearing.
In an article published recently in the British Medical Journal, Peter M Rabinowitz - associate professor of medicine at the Yale school of medicine in the US. – said that the [...]

An estimated six hundred women die each year in England from breast cancer caused by their excessive alcohol consumption. A new study suggests that drinking heavily from an early age can increase that risk.
The research – carried out in America – analysed the alcohol consumption of 7000 girls, aged between nine & fifteen when the [...]

Diet can’t totally eliminate the risk of dementia, but watching what we eat may lower it.
Given its importance as a potentially modifiable factor in the development of Alzheimer’s disease, there has been an increasing emphasis on research into the links between diet & the disease. Some of the current information on the impact of specific [...]

It is estimated that fifteen million people in the UK suffer from hay fever. Find out what this year’s season has in store & what might help.
Following in the footsteps of spring, the hay fever season has begun a little late this year & it is predicted that it may be briefer than usual. This [...]

Losing weight may not always be the healthy thing it’s cracked up to be.
Kate Moss famously said, ‘nothing tastes as good as skinny feels’. Evidence is starting to emerge, however, regarding the potentially damaging effects of extreme dieting on the brain processes, & hence the moods, of those who undertake such weight loss programmes.
At one [...]

A research study in Florida found that rats that were fed junk food developed compulsive eating habits. Does this have implications for humans?
An interesting research study carried out at Scripps Research Institute in Florida has found what its lead researcher – Dr. Paul Kenny – has described as …‘the most thorough & compelling evidence that [...]

Everyone seems to be concerned about it, but the British Government insists there’s no threat to public health.
For some time there has been growing concern among environmentalists with regard to the use of bisphenol A (BPA), the controversial chemical found in an extensive range of consumer goods, including food packaging, the lining of cans, baby [...]

Each year 200,000 people in the UK die from cardiovacular disease. Now a new study by the German Institute of Human Nutrition brings hope that this can be reduced in a surprising & simple way, by regularly eating small amounts of chocolate!
The research involved looking at the health – including diet - of over [...]

A new study may have found the first modifiable risk factor for endometriosis.
Endometriosis is a medical condition which affects around 2 million women – that’s one in ten women  - in the UK. Small pieces of the lining of the womb – the endometrium – are found in other areas of the body. Each month, [...]