Health & Beauty

Regularly heading to the gym and keeping in shape in your youth might appear to be the best thing for you, but without supplementing that with a forward-thinking diet, you could be doing more damage than good. High intensity training and exercise are increasingly becoming more popular each day, but whilst the results in the short term are positive, the long term effects on the body are still somewhat unknown.

What is a super-food?

A super-food is simply food that is widely accessible that carries with it great health properties when consumed. In most instances, super-foods...

MS (Multiple Sclerosis) Awareness Week 2017 marks the 25th anniversary of MS specialist nursing in the UK and the appointment of the first new MS Trust funded nurses. However, the latest research commissioned by the MS Trust shows that MS is still a widely misunderstood condition.

A third of Brits know someone who has MS, yet 1 in 5 don't know what MS stands for and almost 70% admit to being unaware of the major symptoms.

Despite the UK’s lack of awareness, MS is the most common condition of the central nervous system affecting young adults. Over 100,000 people in the UK...

Physiotherapists at Crediton Hospital were excited to receive a new Rehabilitation Bicycle thanks to support from a local charity.

The bicycle, which was purchased for the hospital by the Crediton Hospital League of Friends, is specially designed to be easier to use for adults who have musculoskeletal and neurological impairments. The adaptions make the bike suitable for people to use immediately after a hip or knee replacement, by people who have one sided neurological problems such as after a stroke and for people with decreased balance who might find it difficult to mount and...

Only 7% of people in the South-West of England know a lot about pancreatic cancer, according to a national awareness survey commissioned by Pancreatic Cancer Action.

Nationally, the figures are even worse, with 5% claiming they know a lot about the disease.

Across the nation this year, 9600 men and women will be diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and 8,800 will die of the disease. In the South West, 963 people were diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Of that number, only 48 survived.

It is the UK’s fifth worst cause of cancer death, with a survival rate of just 5% - the...