24 Feb 2012 Bisphenol A (BPA) is a controversial chemical widely used in the plastics industry. A new study followed people over a 10-year time period and shows that healthy people with higher urine concentrations of BPA were more… Read More ›
British Heart Foundation
Unhealthy lifestyles will see British children die before their parents
Research from British Heart Foundation warns of health problems affecting a generation, from lack of exercise to dietary issues Adam Withnall Monday, 12 August 2013 The unhealthy lifestyles of today’s children could see them die younger than their parents because… Read More ›
Drinking cup of beetroot juice daily may help lower blood pressure
Contact: Maggie Francis maggie.francis@heart.org 214-706-1382 American Heart Association A cup of beetroot juice a day may help reduce your blood pressure, according to a small study in the American Heart Association journal Hypertension. People with high blood pressure who drank… Read More ›
One in ten of us has done no exercise in a decade and abandons trying altogether aged 56
Twenty-one per cent say the last time they were physically active was at school, college and university The typical Brit has given up doing any form of exercise by the age of 56 Report carried out by charity British Heart … Read More ›
Commonly used painkiller ‘should be banned over heart risk’
A painkiller used by at least a million people in Britain a year should be banned because it raises the risk of heart attack and stroke by almost half, say British academics. Daily doses of painkillers can increase the risk… Read More ›
Physical activity can reduce the genetic predisposition to obesity by 40 percent
2010 posted for filing Contact: Katie Hickling press@plos.org 44-122-346-3330 Public Library of Science Although the whole population can benefit from a physically active lifestyle, in part through reduced obesity risk, a new study shows that individuals with a genetic predisposition… Read More ›
Vitamin B1 could reverse early-stage kidney disease in diabetes patients
2008 study posted for filing Contact: Kelly Parkes-Harrison k.e.parkes@warwick.ac.uk 44-078-245-40863 University of Warwick Researchers at the University of Warwick have discovered high doses of thiamine – vitamin B1 – can reverse the onset of early diabetic kidney disease. Kidney disease,… Read More ›
Give statins to all over-50s: Even the healthy should take heart drug, says British expert ( Misinformation/Propaganda ) With Data Rebuttal
Data Rebuttal posted at the end of the arrticle ,to their conflicting hypothesis. Were not going to let them off the hook so easy for this. Currently statins only given to around eight million high-risk patients But Professor Sir Rory Collins says… Read More ›
Cure-all? Statins have had no effect on Britain’s heart disease rate, study claims
Benefits of statins are exaggerated and not always the best way to prevent heart disease, study claims NHS spends £450million a year on cholesterol-lowering drugs Most are prescribed as a preventative measure for heart disease, however experts admit they find… Read More ›
High-fat diet affects physical and memory abilities of rats after 9 days
Public release date: 11-Aug-2009 – ‘After just nine days, they were only able to run 50 per cent as far on a treadmill as those that remained on the low-fat feed.’ Rats fed a high-fat diet show a… Read More ›