Viva! Health unravels the most recent scientific research and makes it easy to understand. Here we update you on the latest findings…
Do we need Fish for Omega 3s and health?
- Diets
- Fish
Everywhere you look these days fish oils are being promoted – celebrity scientists recommend them to children, TV adverts imply brain-boosting benefits, food producers slip them into all manner of foods!…
What is our natural diet? Are humans evolutionarily adapted to eat animals, plants or both?
- Diets
- Fruits and Vegetables
Thrush and what to do about it
- Sexual Health
Thrush, that annoying and for some, embarrassing infection of the vagina, is startlingly common – and on the increase.
By going veggie, children cut their risk of diabetes, cancer, heart disease and obesity
- Child Health
World Turned Upside Down! Just imagine the reaction if a specific diet could produce these headlines: “Heart disease rates tumble! 40,000 heart patients taken off critical list – misery lifted…
Recent studies show that when compared with meat-eaters, vegetarians have an incredible 25 per cent lower risk of dying from heart disease
- Heart Disease & Stroke
Of all the complex jobs our bodies have to perform it sounds a comparatively simple demand that we make of our heart – just sit there and pump. That’s what it does, day…
Baby Love
- Child Health
- Sexual Health
Fertility problems affect one in seven couples in the UK (NHS). There are many causes – certainly not diet alone but its affect is often underplayed. How we eat particularly…
Looking at the risks and benefits of enjoying wine and says ‘salud’!
- Alcohol
Many of are indulgences are bad for us! It can be a struggle to resist that melting chocolate moment, or to have the self control to not eat the entire…
How diet affects breast cancer
- Cancer
Number crunching Breast cancer is the UK’s most common cancer affecting women. Every year, over 44,000 women are diagnosed with it and 12,000 die from it. A staggering one in…
Break Free
- Bone health
Bones grow until we’re about 20 years old and then stop – but they don’t then become just a lifeless structure supporting our body. Bones wear and are damaged so they need to be continually repaired.
Growing up big and strong
- Child Health
- Osteoporosis
It’s the dairy industry’s most successful myth and you have to wonder how this simple marketing fib has managed to penetrate our education system all the way up to university…