Research shows that women who want to lose weight should ditch their diets and learn to relax instead.
At the end of a two-year study, women who followed a programme of yoga and meditation had lost weight and kept it off, while those who focused purely on exercise and nutrition had not. The ‘relaxed’ women were [...]

How To Tips : helping people who got heart attack with chest compressions
You’re about to catch a train when a fellow passenger starts to complain of chest pain. You are worried he’s having a heart attack.
You call an ambulance, but next thing you know the man has collapsed – and he looks dead.
The only thing [...]

Frozen food has long had a reputation for being inferior to fresh, on a par with canned. But this is now largely undeserved. Frozen fish is a good example of how freezing has come a long way.
Back in the Seventies and early Eighties, when we weren’t so picky or knowledgeable, frozen fish consisted mainly of [...]

A high-fat, high-sugar diet could have the same effect on brain chemistry as mood-altering drugs, giving scientific support to the craving for “comfort food”, Australian researchers said on Tuesday.
A controlled study of rats that were traumatised in early life and went on to exhibit depressed or anxious behaviours found those that were fed lard-laced [...]