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Health and Happiness Survey

We’re excited to be releasing the results of our recent Health and Happiness Survey this week.

February 7, 2014

3 heart smart tips

This month we're talking heart health, so here are 3 easy steps to protect your heart:

February 3, 2014

Healthinsight

Healthinsight is a new website which challenges the current state of medicine and treatment, edited by the award-winning journalist Jerome...

January 28, 2014

Whose healthier – men or women?

A survey we carried out this month has revealed that men consider themselves healthier and happier than women in general.

January 28, 2014

Are we addicted to sugar?

A Despatches programme on Channel Four last night asked if we are addicted to sugar? My view is that many...

January 21, 2014

Five Foods That Are Better Than Drugs

If you take pain killers, diabetes drugs, cholesterol lowering or blood pressure medication or anti-depressants did you know that there...

January 17, 2014

Working with Your Doctor

Despite all the publicity about the importance of tackling obesity, encouraging people to exercise and the benefits of five to...

January 17, 2014

Memory Loss

Every year in Europe, a million people are diagnosed with memory decline, and 400,000 of them go on to be...

January 15, 2014

Depression

The evidence suggests that the nutritional approach it not only more effective than anti-depressant drugs it has nothing like the...

January 15, 2014

Arthritis

Arthritis is a huge problem in the West with as many as 13 million sufferers in the UK.

January 15, 2014

Asthma & Eczema

The incidence of both asthma and eczema is very much on the rise in developed countries.

January 15, 2014

Heart Disease

More people die prematurely from diseases of the heart and arteries than anything else – 250,000 a year!

January 15, 2014

Anxiety & Insomnia

Sleep is a wonderful thing, yet for quite a few of us it’s an elusive pleasure. The problem usually begins...

January 15, 2014

ADHD

Now affecting an estimated 1 in 10 boys and 1 in 30 girls in the UK, ADHD is often blamed...

January 15, 2014

Sugar not fat is the bad guy

It was announced this week that the World Health Organisation is considering halving the amount of sugar that it recommends...

January 9, 2014

What really works for weight loss?

It’s that time of year when many of us are making resolutions. Weight loss or dieting is often at the...

January 9, 2014

My vision – A Healthy Nation

My vision in 2014 is to create a healthy nation. I myself am fit and healthy at 55 as a...

January 2, 2014

The hot health stories of 2013

Here are what I think were the big developments in health and nutrition this year.

December 23, 2013

Vitamins – a waste of money?

Three simultaneously published papers appeared today in the Annals of Internal Medicine, a struggling journal that is dependent on big...

December 17, 2013

The best breakfast to lose weight

If you’re trying to lose weight but struggling with all the Christmas temptations then the best way to start the...

December 12, 2013