Health

Lidl promotes healthy eating

Lidl promotes healthy eating

Lidl is the first supermarket in the UK to start tackling obesity. It has currently been reported that they are going to be removing all chocolates, sweets and crisps from its 600 stores across the UK. The reason for this is the fact that they wanted to promote healthy snacks as appose to unhealthy options, which many parents are tempted[Read More…]

Tina Thompson

Waitrose under the spotlight after selling glow-in-the-dark prawns

If you are thinking of buying prawns – or indeed any food from the supermarket – you may want to think twice – they could be radioactive. A former mayor has spoken of her shock after frozen prawns that she purchased from supermarket Waitrose started glowing in the dark. Tina Thompson, 69, from Rutherwyke Close, Stoneleigh, had defrosted the supermarket’s[Read More…]

New study shows meditation ‘more effective than anti-depressant pills’

New study shows meditation ‘more effective than anti-depressant pills’

Meditation works just as well as antidepressants, according to a new study. Research published by scientists at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore revealed that meditating for just half an hour a day can relieve depression as much as antidepressants. Meditation, which has a long history in Eastern traditions, is one of many ‘mindfulness’ techniques that has grown[Read More…]

Scientists come up with a new way to capture compassion

Scientists come up with a new way to capture compassion

Scientists have come up with a new way to measure compassion and use it to the benefit of patients, it has been revealed. In a journal entitled Health Expectations, the researchers from the University of Rochester Medical Center has unveiled the results of a study in which they have identified compassionate words and statements which are the most effective on[Read More…]

New study shows exercise can help to combat Alzheimer’s

New study shows exercise can help to combat Alzheimer’s

Regular exercise can combat the risk of dementia, according to new findings. A long-term study carried out at Cardiff University revealed the close links that dementia has with a lack of regular exercise, smoking, bad diet, obesity, and alcohol intake. The study monitored over 2,235 men aged between 25 and 49 from Caerphilly, just north of Cardiff, since 1979. Results[Read More…]