20170618

The end of smoking is finally 'in sight': Now just 1 in 6 adults regularly light up cigarettes in the UK as rates keep falling (and 700,000 quit last year)

The numbers of smokers in the UK have dropped from 19.9 per cent in 2010 to just 15.5 per cent in 2016, official figures from the Office for National Statistics and Public Health England show. Mail

20170616

Eating chips twice a week ‘doubles your chance of death’, says study

But while it’s common knowledge that indulging a chip habit too often can lead to weight gain, it may also affect mortality rates, researchers have now shown.The study, published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, found that over an eight-year period, people who regularly ate fried potatoes were twice as likely to die. Independent

20170603

How Mindfulness Can Help You Regulate Emotions

Being mindful helps keep us in the driver’s seat of our behavior and actions. We can remain in a position of greater control and manage our emotions instead of our emotions managing us. Emotions and feelings communicate to us, and by practicing the skill of mindfulness we can begin to respond to emotions more effectively. Read more

20170530

Drinking just one coffee a day could help BEAT cancer: Caffeine slashes risk

Coffee protects liver cancer caffeine HCC health benefitsThe compound molecules found in coffee possess antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, anticarcinogenic properties which scientists believe may explain the lower rates of chronic liver disease and liver cancer experienced by coffee-drinkers. Express