Health & Beauty

Local construction consultants, Haldons Limited, hand-over Phase 2 of the Multi Sports Hub, at Paignton Community and Sports Academy (PCSA). The £150,000 project for a new spectators seating area, which received lottery funding from Sport England, was overseen by Haldons and constructed by SML Contracts. The new spectator’s area is the final phase of the original £1.6m sports arena completed in 2010, which was also funded by Sport England. The multi-use Sports Hub has a floor area of approximately 2,900m2 and is utilised for Badminton, Netball, Tennis, Basketball, Futsal and Cricket, with...

Neil Parish MP attended a British Heart Foundation (BHF) event on the 4th February calling on the next government to guarantee the future of the science budget to protect lifesaving research.

The MP for Tiverton and Honiton joined heart patient Emily Sullivan, 8, for a science lesson to highlight the importance of charities being able to continue funding medical research. Emily has had three open heart surgeries after being born with three large holes in her heart, a condition that more and more people are surviving because of BHF research.

Neil Parish joined thousands of...

New research has questioned dietary guidance about the consumption of fat designed to reduce the number of people affected by coronary heart disease.

People in the UK and US are advised to keep their overall fat consumption to 30 per cent of their daily energy intake and their saturated fat to 10 per cent.

The study looked at whether results of randomised control trials supported the introduction of guidance in the late seventies and early eighties. They concluded that there was insufficient evidence to do so. But the British Heart Foundation believes that only looking at...

People living close to the coast in England have higher vitamin D levels than inland dwellers, according to a new study published in the journal Environment International.

Exposure to sunlight is a crucial factor in vitamin D production and the research has also found that English coasts tend to see a greater amount of sunlight across the year when compared with inland areas.

Backed by investment from ESF Convergence and conducted by the University of Exeter Medical School in partnership with the Met Office, the study is the first time that data on sunlight and vitamin D...