Diabetes is a known medical condition that occurs when the pancreas has either stopped producing insulin or the quantity of produced insulin is not enough. This might lead to multiple medical conditions which might directly affect the blood vessels and nerves. The best way to control diabetes is to ...

Almost everybody desires a fit body. While a fit body includes well-defined abs, shoulders, and chest, an often-overlooked part of being fit is having feet that fit well into any shoe of your choice. For your whole body to be in alignment, you need to keep your feet in good shape. As Hollywood ...

Red meats are meats that are easy to identify, they're simply red in colour when they are raw. These include beef, lamb, mutton, pork, goat, veal, and venison. These types of meats appear to be red as they are rich in myoglobin (a protein that binds iron and oxygen) and when encountering oxygen, it ...

Seeds or nuts? Are they the same or different? By botanical definitions, many foods that we call nuts are actually seeds. Nuts are seeds of plants, mainly trees but some can be seeds of legumes, for example peanuts. To avoid confusion here, I shall refer to them by the term they're most commonly ...

In the UK around 7.6 million people are afflicted with heart and circulatory diseases, with 450 people dying every day as a consequence of these diseases. Therefore, it is really important to do as much as we can to fight this and prevent countless of preventable deaths while at the same time ...

Diabetes occurs when the body cannot effectively manage blood sugar levels. In the UK around 4.7 million people have been diagnosed with diabetes and this number is widely expected to surpass 5.5 million by the start of the next decade if things don’t change. However, exercise therapy can help ...

Diabetes is the 7th most deadly disease affecting over 420 million people globally with numbers sadly on the rise. Its main characteristic is the loss of carbohydrate metabolism function. The most common symptom is high blood glucose which is a consequence of impaired insulin production in the ...

Government guidelines recommend 30g of fibre per day to sustain a healthy, balanced diet, however evidence shows that the average adult consumes less than 20g daily. Our previous articles; Top 5 Super Cheap High-Fibre Vegetables and Top 5 Health Benefits of Dietary Fibre, discussed the importance ...

In the cold depths of winter, I enjoy nothing more than curling up on the sofa with a lovely cup of tea and watching Ant and Dec laugh and squirm at all the ‘I’m a celebrity, get me out of here’ contestants. The celebrities are put through their paces from bizarre mind-challenging tasks such as ...

An incredibly common condition, one in every ten women of childbearing age is affected with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (aka PCOS). Shockingly, almost 7 out of 10 women affected go undiagnosed. PCOS is not a disease, it’s an endocrine and metabolic disorder that affects the body, but not everyone ...