As the body ages muscles gradually get weaker and less able to bear load. This has a huge impact on the whole body as muscles help to support the body organs and keep everything together. Also quality of life issues are impacted as with the reduction in strength comes the reduction in [...]
Read more →Adopting four healthy behaviours can add up to 14 years of extra life if you were not following them before. This includes not smoking, moderate alcohol intake, taking exercise and eating five servings of fruit and vegetables per day. These results come from a study published in PLoS Medicine journal. This [...]
Read more →Heart disease not only has a high risk of death it also carries with it a huge quality of life burden. So even though medical breakthroughs have allowed heart attack survivors to get extra years, it also means that increasing numbers will end up with disability or have to live in a [...]
Read more →Cosmetic surgery has gone from being something which only a minority of people do to something which is much more socially acceptable and affordable. In the UK in 2005, 300,000 cosmetic treatments were performed while in the following year 577,000 were performed (an increase of over 90%) and a market analyst [...]
Read more →Having an active lifestyle appears to make people biologically younger, this is from a report from the January 28th issues of the Archives of Internal Medicine. This reinforces what many take for granted, but it is important to back up common sense with actual data.
Regular exercises have the following traits; lower rates [...]
