4 Things To Know About Switching To A Vegan Diet

With growing awareness surrounding the ethical and environmental benefits of a diet which is free from animal products, including fish, meat, eggs and dairy, more and more people are switching over to a vegan diet.

4 Things To Know About Switching To A Vegan Diet

How Your Lifestyle Affects Your Mental Health

Many doctors often prescribe lifestyle factors such as exercise and a good diet as part of treatments for illnesses such as depression and anxiety.

How Your Lifestyle Affects Your Mental Health

Ancient Europeans had a taste for spicy food

Prehistoric hunter-gatherers in northern Europe appear to have been using spices in their cooking pots 7,000 years ago.
Research conducted by University of York archaeologists and colleagues Denmark, Germany and Spain shows that our European
ancestors had a taste for spicy food.

Ancient Europeans had a taste for spicy food

Diet and Acne Re-visited

Whether you call them pimples, blemishes or zits, the hallmarks of acne are the source of untold misery for many young people. At a time when they are developing crucial lifeskills and social networks this cruel affliction affects self-esteem and causes social withdrawal, depression and anxiety.

Diet and Acne Re-visited

Chocolate and Stroke

Eating moderate amounts of chocolate each week may be linked to lower risk of stroke.

Chocolate and Stroke

Weight loss

It is a sad and frustrating fact that many (perhaps, most) attempts to lose weight result in a temporary loss that is reversed in a relatively short time.

Keeping the Pounds Off

Salt Consumption Linked To Moods

Over-consumption of and craving for salt may be explained by its mood-enhancing qualities. Researchers found rats deficient in sodium chloride (common table salt) avoided activities they normally enjoy.

Salt Consumption Linked To Moods

Mediterranean Diet May Help Alzheimer's

Mediterranean diet appears to be associated with a lower risk of Alzheimer's.


Mediterranean Diet May Help Alzheimer's

Health Benefits of Olive Oil

Significant differences in cancer rates between northern and southern Europeans may be explained by the anti-cancer effects of olive oil in the diet. Now a Spanish study confirms that anti-oxidants in extra virgin olive oil can combat breast cancer.


Health Benefits of Olive Oil

Chocolate May Not Be Addictive

While people readily admit to being "chocoholics", chocolate is not truly addictive and there is an alternative explanation for this ubiquitous craving.

Chocolate May Not Be Addictive

Fruity Vegetables Reduce Childhood Asthma

A diet rich in fish and "fruity vegetables" such as tomatoes, aubergines, cucumber, green beans and courgettes can reduce childhood asthma and allergies.

Fruity Vegetables Reduce Childhood Asthma

Mediterranean Diet May Help Alzheimer's

Research led by Dr Nikos Scarmeas of Columbia University Medical Center published in Neurology has found that a Mediterranean diet may help people with Alzheimer's disease live longer than those relying on a more traditional Western diet.

The study followed 192 people with Alzheimer's disease in New York for an average of four and a half years during which 85 participants died. However, the study found that those most closely following a Mediterranean diet were 76 per cent less likely to die.

Mediterranean Diet May Help Alzheimer's

Parents Fail to Recognise Children's Excess Weight

A survey by researchers at Deakin's Centre for Physical Activity and Nutrition in Australia has found that the majority of parents with obese children lack awareness or concern about their children's weight.

Parents Fail to Recognise Children's Excess Weight

Keeping the Pounds Off

It is a sad fact that many (perhaps, most) attempts to lose weight result in a temporary loss that is reversed in a relatively short time. But new research indicates that this is not inevitable.

Keeping the Pounds Off