As the temperature in the Middle East gradually drops to the levels of nice European summer, there is much more to do outdoors. You see people taking a walk or a jog, kids playing outside straight after school, not needing to wait until after the sunset as was the case only last month, more BBQ…
The Workout That Suppresses Your Appetite If you are not already doing high-intensity interval training (HIIT) to increase your calorie burn and reduce your gym time, here’s another reason to go hard then go home. HIIT suppresses your appetite. According to the Medical Publication; International Journal of Obesity, subjects who did intervals for 30 minutes…
Save yourself from nagging by turning off your mobile phone. A US study from University of Wisconsin Milwaukee found that those fixed onto their mobile phone were most likely to report negative “spillover” between work and leisure, spoiling family time and turning up domestic stress levels. Switch off your phone when you get home from…
Avoiding mental stress could save your arteries, a University College London study of middle-aged people has found. The researchers believe this might be because stress encourages the body to produce more glucose, requiring the liver to churn out more LDL cholesterol (the bad kind) to transport it around the body. The solution? Taking up a…
Doctors Condemn Plan To Link A&E Payments To Staff Flu Jab Uptake The UK’s public health and emergency doctors’ leaders have criticised it’s health secretary for linking extra payments to hospital accident and emergency departments to flu vaccination rates amongst staff. The Health Secretary (Jeremy Hunt) announced a plan in September where he detailed how…
Life-Lengthening Health Advice Ratios Research suggests you can increase the average odds of extending your life by following the below: 2:1 Average odds of Heart Disease You can cut your risk of heart disease by a massive 40% (4:1) just by getting your RDA of vitamin D, found Danish researchers. 25:1 Average risk of…
