Tuesday August 10, 2010 at 10:14am
The BBC reported today that one of the biggest risks to your health is belly fat and fat around the waist. USA studies report that women and men who have large waists have increased risk of dying young. And this is regardless of their BMI. To add to this if you have a very high waist measurement, which is UK size 24 – 26, the risk of early motality is doubled.Dr David Haslam National Obesity Forum quotes “Even if you have a normal BMI and a big tummy then you are just as much at risk....
Wednesday August 4, 2010 at 5:30pm
The latest health sensation is it seems Vitamin D.But why now? Lack of Vitamin D has been around for hundreds of years. Indeed Rickets was something that children developed through bad nutrition a 100 years ago principally through Vitamin D deficiency. But as research and papers get published in the medical journals it seems that Vitamin D is vital for a number of the body’s functions and processes. And that is why it has hit the media now. What is Vitamin D? Vitamin D is in fact not a vit....