You’ve read about it in the press, heard about it in the media about how much sodium is in salt and how harmful it can be for usif eaten in excess, but how do you know if you are consuming too much? Heres how you can find out… The following chart shows a number of [...]
Eating too much salt is bad for your health! We know this, we see the adverts but do you know why? Salt can raise your blood pressure and having high blood pressure tripples your chances of heart disease and stroke. Adults should eat no more than 6g of salt per day. Children should eat even [...]
Go easy on these bad boys… Food containing sugar and fat: Chocolate & Sweets Crisps Biscuits & Cakes Processed Foods Pastries & Pies Fizzy Drinks Alcohol Im not saying dont eat these types of foods at all, just to eat in moderation, chose healthier options of food over the above mentioned Over indulging on foods [...]
There is no getting away from it! Never before has what you eat been so newsworthy with Diets heavily promoting on TV and in Press, Jamie Oliver continuing with his mission to get school canteens healthy and both in the UK & USA. The problem is that the more the media tell us, the more people [...]
Anyone who has ever been subject to chronic stress knows that it can take a toll on emotions and the ability to think clearly. Now, new research uncovers a neural mechanism that directly links repeated stress with impaired memory. The study, published by Cell Press in the March 8 issue of the journal Neuron, also [...]
Research from The University of Exeter has found that a 15-minute walk can cut snacking on chocolate at work by half. The study showed that, even in stressful situations, workers eat only half as much chocolate as they normally would after this short burst of physical activity. Published in the journal Appetite, the research suggests that [...]
Big Management Decisions to make? Trying to make a big decision while you’re also preparing for a scary presentation? You might want to hold off on that. Feeling stressed changes how people weigh risk and reward. A new article published in Current Directions in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, reviews [...]
With Yoga getting the celeb endorsement recently with a surge of celebs being seen going in and out of Yoga Classes such as Russell Brand, I thought Id look a little more into Yoga and its benefits and its been suprising some of the research that Ive found… University of Alberta research fellow Amy Speed-Andrews [...]
An article by researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), New York Medical College (NYMC), and the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons (CCPS) reviews evidence that yoga may be effective in treating patients with stress-related psychological and medical conditions such as depression, anxiety, high blood pressure and cardiac disease. Their theory, which currently [...]
A recent University of Iowa study reveals a biological link between pain and fatigue and may help explain why more women than men are diagnosed with chronic pain and fatigue conditions like fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome. Working with mice, the researchers, led by Kathleen Sluka, Ph.D., professor in the Graduate Program in Physical Therapy [...]
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