Health / Wellness

For those who manage to get through the week on 4-5 hours of shut eye a night, we’re sure we don’t need to tell you about the effects of sleep deprivation. Urgh! But what we are happy to announce is, that you might have a golden ticket to hit the ...

Since the day we were told that bacon topped the list of most cancer-causing substances ever, we’ve all been, well, a tad sad. It seems that everything we touch, see or smell lately has the potential to give us cancer. And today, you can add citrus-scented candles to the list ...

New research by the University of North Carolina examined the results of four different health studies to establish how close relationships affect people’s health at different stages of their life. Researchers determined the relationship between a person’s health and social interactions by comparing the number and quality of their family ...

A new study examined how a person’s height can affect their health and found that tall people have a lower risk of heart disease and type 2 diabetes but a higher risk of cancer. Researchers from Germany, in collaboration with Harvard Medical School found that per 6.5 cm in height, ...

Orthorexia: What the Experts Say Orthorexia crosses the line from wanting to be healthy to an unhealthy obsession with health,” Louise Adams, a clinical psychologist who specialises in food, weight and body image, says. Unlike anorexia, where sufferers are consumed by a desire to be thin and fixate on how ...

Researchers from Harvard University monitored more than 130,000 healthy women for a period of 10 years and found that over 6,000 women developed Type 2 diabetes. As part of the study, scientists looked at various sleep problems including difficulty falling or staying asleep, snoring, getting less than six hours sleep per ...

Following a more relaxed approach to veganism, veggans have taken to social media to share all things #yolkporn, #egglove and #vegan-ish. The Benefits Besides the fact that weekend brunches become a whole lot easier, eating eggs is an easy way to get more iron, protein and vitamin D on your ...

BPA is an industrial chemical used to make certain plastics and has been found to have a negative impact on estrogen levels. For this latest study, scientists at Harvard University expanded on the results of previous research that showed how fertility issues associated with BPA could be prevented by adopting ...

A new study suggests a diet high in unsaturated fats, such as those found in walnuts, has similar weight loss effects as a low fat diet. The research, led by Dr. Cheryl Rock of the University of California, also revealed that a diet containing walnuts has a positive impact oncholesterol ...

And it doesn’t stop there as researchers believe this disruption of your natural microbiome can have some serious consequences for youroverall health. Professor Julie Horvath from the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences told Time that to examine what was living on her skin, she and her colleagues swabbed their ...