How Negative Emotions Affect Your Health

Negative emotions, including the ones we take for granted, such as anxiety, fear, frustration, envy, and doubt can affect your health to a great degree. Certain occurrences in life, such as getting fired from the job, experiencing monetary problems, going through a tumultuous marriage, or coping with the death of a loved one, can wreak havoc on one’s mental and emotional state and in turn take a toll on the body.

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Best food to increase your sex drive: How eggs and almonds can BOOST a flagging libido.

There are a number of reasons why your sex life may have lost it's sizzle but you can help put the va-va-voom back into the bedroom with these lust-inducing foods. READ MORE

Eating broccoli, cabbage and avocado could SLOW DOWN effects of ageing

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Cannabis users five times more like to develop schizophrenia than someone who has never smoked it.

Danish researchers trawled more than 3.1million people’s medical records to ascertain the link between cannabis use and schizophrenia.Regular cannabis users are more than five times more likely to develop a serious mental disorder.

Cannabis creates a greater mental health risk than any other substance, including class A drugs, scientists have found. Mailonline

Pensioners can boost their brain power 'by building up their muscle strength'

BUILDING up muscles boosts brain power as well as physical power for pensioners, according to a new study. The new findings, published in the Journal of American Geriatrics, show, for the first time, a “positive causal link” between muscle adaptations to progressive resistance training and the functioning of the brain among people over 55 with MCI. Doctor Mavros said: “The more we can get people doing resistance training like weight lifting, the more likely we are to have a healthier ageing population. READ MORE

A glass of red wine a day can help women get pregnant

The natural compound resveratrol, found in red wine, can prevent women developing polycystic ovary syndrome, the leading cause of female infertility. Mirror

Keep YOUR heart healthy with these 10 'wonder foods' (and yes, chocolate IS on the list)

Introducing something as simple as healthy oils and wholegrains to your diet can help to protect your heart and improve your overall health and wellbeing, says nutritionist Sarah Flower. Read more