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Anorexia Nervosa is a disease which damages your mental wellness, and can cause serious harm to your overall wellbeing. If you have a psychologically disturbed body image, this can make you reluctant to consume food and leads to…

According to the results of an animal study led by researchers at the Diabetes Obesity and Metabolism Institute at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, binge drinking doesn’t only harm your wellness in the short term, but could…

If you have type 2 diabetes, your wellbeing could be improved by a newly approved drug from Sanofi and partner Zealand Pharma. The diabetes drug Lyxumia, which has just been given the green light by regulators in Europe, improves your…

You may think that taking selenium supplements could benefit your heart wellness, but according to a systematic review published in The Cochrane Library, not only does current evidence not support selenium for preventing heart disease, but…

According to Dr. Charles H. Hennekens, MD, DrPH, the first Sir Richard Doll Professor and senior academic advisor to the dean in the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine at Florida Atlantic University, obesity is the leading avoidable…

Have you ever heard a man complaining that he’s packing on the pounds around his hips and thighs? You probably haven’t, as this is where women tend to store body fat, whereas men tend to store it in the abdominal area. However, if you’re…

Regularly consuming sugary beverages can threaten your wellbeing as it is a known trigger of type 2 diabetes. However, according to researchers at Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute and Mount Sinai School of Medicine, consuming…

Surprisingly, a good balanced diet can actually help you prevent grey hair from developing, as well as helping to cure that which has already developed. The wrong foods in your diet can have a hugely detrimental effect on your health, so…

Asthma is one of the better known chronic conditions in the world today. Current statistics estimate that there are up to two children in each class who suffer from asthma and as such most kids will have experienced the disease at some…

Arthritis is a frustrating conditions for a lot of reasons. It's chronic for one, so it's something which is going to stay with you for the rest of your life. Though it can be managed with the right sort of lifestyle changes and medications…

A new study, published online in Nature, has found that metformin, which is a drug used to treat diabetes, works differently than scientists had previously understood. The team of researchers found that, in mice, metformin suppresses…

In the last five or six years people have started to take air pollution much more seriously. Most countries have adopted a no-smoking policy within their public areas and there have been a good deal of attempts to lessen the amount of…

Asthma is a condition which you don't fully understand. Now, this may be a surprise to you but when you think about it logically you'll see that that's not all that surprising. Most of the big chronic conditions which plague the world today…

There is a growing theory that metabolic anomalies, as harming your wellness with diabetes, stroke and other conditions, can actually affect your mental wellbeing too. Now, using a neurodegeneration model of Alzheimer's disease, researchers…

There are a lot of different kinds of arthritis, over 200 to be more specific. They vary from condition to condition but generally they're centred around issues in the joints, generally inflammation. What causes this inflammation depends on…

Modern lifestyles and medical advances have made it extremely possible to reach eighty years of age. Many of the illnesses that plagued our predecessors, such as smallpox and tuberculosis, are no longer a factor of most people’s lives and…

A large proportion of adults across the globe are overweight and suffering from health problems due to obesity. Yet, at the same time, modern society is far more health conscious and in a constant attempt to lose weight, get fitter and stay…

There are a lot of conditions which could be effecting your joints. As we get older these areas of our bodies become susceptible to attack more than anything else and conditions like the many kinds of arthritis become more and more common.…

The first thing you'll be told as newly diagnosed type two diabetic is how best to manage your condition. It's not a death sentence and it's not something which really has to affect your life as much as it can. Just how much of an impact…

A healthy diet needs to be low in hydrogenated fats, in addition to artificial colours and flavours, so as to reduce the health risks associated with this culinary by-product. The hydrogenation process is what turns liquids into a solid…

I am accident prone. I've broken both my arms several times, slipped the growth disc in my left wrist, had the tendon to my left ring finger severed and cracked my head open on numerous occasions. I'm no stranger to the hospital and the…

Diabetes isn't something you'd want but it is something that you could live with. As long as you're careful and you do what your doctor advises, you're not going to die from this condition, in fact you can go on to live just as long as…

For such a common condition, diabetes isn't really understood by the general population. To give them their due, it's a bit of a convoluted condition. The different varieties contradict each other a bit and it's easy to get confused between…

Rheumatoid arthritis is an inflammatory condition which affects the joints. It's autoimmune in that it's caused when our bodies immune systems mistake the cartilage found in our joints to be a foreign body and attack it relentlessly. This…

Asthma is a condition which most would associate with children and while it’s true that in most classrooms there are at least two asthmatics, the inflammatory condition can affect people of any age. Though it’s infinitely manageable with…

The major health concern in the world today, the major cause of the rise in certain diseases and chronic conditions is, you've guessed it, obesity and becoming overweight. I cannot overstate how much damage getting and then staying obese…

When you see someone is being bullied in the workplace, you can be concerned for their wellbeing. However, a recent study has found that, as a witness, workplace bullying can take its toll on your wellness too. The Finnish study, which was…

When you've been diagnosed with a chronic conditions you've essentially been told that you can't be cured, that there's nothing that modern medicine can do to save you. Now, that's not to say that medicine won't keep you alive and keep your…

I believe that, when used together, holistic/alternative therapies and more modern treatments and medicines are the most potent way of treating any condition. When you use both together you're taking everything into account. You're looking…

The Canadian Medical Association Journal has reported that the removal of eye exams from the Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP), for healthy adults under age 65, has led to lower rates of recommended eye screening for people with…