Viva! Health unravels the most recent scientific research and makes it easy to understand. Here we update you on the latest findings…
6 Foods To Keep You Young
- ageing
- Bone health
- Health
- Nutrition
We’ve all heard the saying ‘you’re only as old as you feel’. Whilst ageing is natural and inevitable, we can help ourselves feel younger, from the inside out, by including certain foods in our diet.
Free vegan school milk in Scotland
- Child Health
- Dairy
- Dairy-free
The Scottish government has added soya milk to their free Milk and Healthy Snack Scheme, let’s hope this gets rolled out to all UK school-aged children!
How to upgrade your diet with nine easy swaps
- eat better
- eat healthy
- eat well
- healthy diet
- healthy vegan
- plant-based diet
- Vegan
If you want to eat a little healthier but don’t know where to start, worry not, these tips will get you on the right track!
5 plant-based perks of coffee
- caffeine
- coffee
- Health
Coffee has a mixed reputation but what’s the truth about the beverage?
Chocolate, cocoa, cacao and our emotions
Why do chocolate and cocoa make us feel good? It turns out there’s a very powerful cocktail of natural compounds that all work together to produce pleasurable feelings and more!
Dying for a nugget?
- Food Poisoning
The Foods Standards Agency has recalled frozen raw breaded chicken products – such as nuggets, goujons, dippers, poppers and kievs – which are contaminated with salmonella and have caused hundreds of cases of food poisoning and at least one death in the UK.
Bird flu takes another step closer
- Bird flu
- End factory farming
Another strain of bird flu has made the jump from birds to humans, this time in a poultry farm in Russia, bringing a potential flu pandemic a step closer.
‘It’s a Ticking Time Bomb’ – Bird Flu Infects 7 People in Russia
- Bird flu
- End factory farming
- Factory farming
- Pandemic
- Pandemics
The highly contagious bird flu virus strain H5N8 has infected seven workers in Russia proving that factory farming is a ticking time bomb for future pandemics.
Pasta
- Pasta
Affordable and versatile, pasta is a source of carbohydrate and can form part of a healthy diet.
Omega-3 and asthma – you don’t need fish
Omega-3 fats may help combat inflammation and lower the risk of asthma, but you don’t need oily fish to get them.
