We tend to think of soup as a healthy, comforting food, but the high levels of hidden salt it contains present a very real risk to our health.
High levels of salt are linked to high blood pressure, and increase the risk of having a heart attack or stroke. There is growing evidence that it is [...]
New research suggests that while sufferers of diabetes may use a high protein diet as a means of controlling the condition, dolphins, conversely, seem to have developed a diabetes like state in order to support their high protein diet.
About 2 million people in the uk have been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. It can lead [...]
That tantalizing smell while you’re frying your food just might give you cancer along with an appetite!
The fumes that result from frying food at high temperatures are known to cause changes in DNA and may be carcinogenic. Professional chefs are particularly at risk. Lung cancer rates in China, for example are high among chefs, and [...]
ScienceDaily has revealed study results that drinking chamomile tea daily with meals may prevent the complications associated with diabetes type 2.
The research findings has sparked interest in the development of a new chamomile-based drug, which is hoped to curb complications including loss of vision, nerve damage, and kidney damage.
Type 2 diabetes has now reached epidemic [...]
New research suggests that only 43% of osteoporosis patients across Europe take calcium and vitamin D supplements in combination.
This figure is worrying because this kind of combination therapy maximises the benefits of supplementation. The study was published at the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research (ASBMR).
Professor Steven Boonen of Leuven University, Belgium said: [...]
Scientists hope to be able to limit the extent of damage caused by a heart attack: High levels of the protein ALDH2 has been found to restrict damage to the heart muscle usually caused by a lack of oxygen during a heart attack.
The enzyme had previously been identified as an essential component in breaking down [...]
Under proposals to be announced next week by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), nationwide testing for tens of thousands of young people for a genetic defect that can kill them in their twenties.
The tests will include children as young as ten, and focuses on those whose mother and fathers were [...]
Research by scientists at the Imperial College of London has found that testing the phlegm and breath of young children with severe asthma, could spare them from potentially damaging oral steroid drugs by over a third over a three year period.
The tests could help spot the early signs of the condition, allowing it to be [...]
According to a leading British specialist, new drugs being tested for migraine sufferers cut the number of attacks and could help prevent them altogether.
The treatment is called Tonabersat and ‘turns down’ hyperactive nerves, which promote debilitating headaches.
Another pill, referred to as NK0974, is said to lift the pain from sufferers within two hours of taking [...]
Now-a-days it’s all too easy for doctors to diagnose a patient with depression. Can’t sleep? Probably depression, Feel a bit tired? Must be depression, Unmotivated? Most defiantly: depression. ‘Take two of these every day till you can’t feel feelings.’
Over two million people in the UK are taking prescribed anti-depressants, yet according to a new book, [...]