Health & Beauty

Many will be considering getting a head start on their New Year fitness resolutions.

However, with snow and ice guaranteed for many areas throughout December, it is important take safety into consideration when exercising outdoors.

Matthew Magnante, an exercise author at FitnessVolt, has compiled a list of his most important safety tips to keep in mind when exercising outdoors during the colder months.

Drink even if you don’t feel thirsty

Many may not realise this, but we are at an elevated risk of dehydration when exercising in colder temperatures....

A dentist and former football manager whose life has changed dramatically since his ALS diagnosis has appealed with others who have the disease to join him in a new brain imaging study to help the race to find new treatments.

The University of Exeter’s world-leading Neurodegeneration Imaging Group, led by Professor Marios Politis, is appealing for people who have ALS (also known as motor neurone disease) to get in touch, and take part in a year-long study.

ALS, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the...

You must have watched movies where the eccentric criminal has an underlying mental disorder and commits mysterious crimes. They look so bizarre, but does mental illness affect the masses?

Psychological disorders, behavioral illnesses, and mental diseases change your way of thinking, emotions, and your brain’s chemical balance. A psychological disorder is an unusual change in a person's thinking, behavior, or emotions (or all three) which affects one's functions and habits.

The long list of psychological disorders includes behavior sickness, eating disorders, sleeping...

New research has found that while nearly a third of Brits say cheese is one of their favourite foods, almost a quarter of Brits have avoided eating cheese for fear it’ll give them nightmares or vivid dreams. Out of people who reported they’ve had vivid dreams or nightmares after eating cheese, 70% said it was cheddar they’d been eating, 40% said Mozzarella and 35% said Brie.

To test whether this old wives’ tale is true, sleep company, Emma , is inviting Brits to join a new sleep-science experiment in which they’ll get the chance to eat their favourite cheeses for 15 days, to test...