Fish oil could help prevent Alzheimer’s and also give you a bigger brain
Eating more fish could give you a bigger brain – and greater protection against diseases such as Alzheimers, claim researchers.
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‘Anorexic’ doll provokes outrage: ‘Deeply worrying’ toy which shuns food should be banned, say campaigners
When attempts are made to feed her, she shakes her head and keeps her mouth firmly shut a scenario familiar to new mothers who struggle to get babies to eat.
Could this berry mean you can eat junk food guilt free? Lingonberries ‘halt the effects of high-fat diet’
Everyone dreams of being able to eat chocolate and pizza all day without putting on a pound.
High protein diets such as Dukan increase the risk of kidney disease and painful stones
Spanish scientists say eating a lot of protein can also increase the risk of kidney stones.
Marriage really DOES make you stronger: Husbands have tougher bones than their single counterparts
Now, a study has found that marriage is also good for a man’s bones – but only if he marries after the age of 25.
‘My boy had his brain cut in HALF to treat his epilepsy’: Mother’s delight as radical surgery stops her son’s constant seizures
A three-year-old boy with epilepsy has been free of seizures for six months after surgeons disconnected half of his brain.
Vitamin D not needed for healthy people, study finds
There is little reason to prescribe vitamin D supplements to healthy adults to reduce the risk of diseases or fractures, say researchers writing in the Lancet.
Baby heart-disease risk ‘shaped early in pregnancy’
A baby’s development in the womb in the first weeks of life is critical for future heart health, research suggests.
Older cancer patients ‘should not be written off’
NHS England acknowledged that it needed to deliver better services to people in the over-65 age group.
Four elderly patients a week are dying of hunger and thirst ‘utterly scandalous’ figures reveal
More than 2,100 patients have died from conditions related to hunger and thirst in hospitals and care homes in the last decade, figures reveal.