Early humans experimented on tools
It has been found that our ancestors did not just happen to come across the ideas for tools and early weapons. These were made through a rigorous process of trial and error, they actually experimented with the tools until they go them right.
Researchers from the University of Missouri in the US have found that over [...]
Drinking red wine keeps you healthy
This has been knocking around for some time, and people who live around the coast of the Mediterranean coast have proved this as they seem to have one of the healthiest lifestyles around.
Now it seems the French have the better lifestyle than anyone else around the coastline. This shows that just by simply sipping a [...]
Energy drinks linked to risk taking
Researchers at the University of Buffalo are looking into the effects of these so called energy drinks on younger people and teenagers. These drinks which are high in caffeine have become very popular of the past few years.
But it is not only adults who are drinking these drinks like Red Bull etc are very popular [...]
E211 to be dropped from Coke
An additive which has been connected to hyperactivity and even with damaging DNA in children is to be phased out in the production process of Diet Coke.
The additive is called Sodium Benzoate or as many people will see it on the cans as E211, this is a sort of preservative which when it is added [...]
Medicine or Food the ingredients are the same
For years people have been using natural products for treatment of ill health, however many of these treatments are also foods which has to bring up the question: it someone has all of these foods in their daily diet, should they not be the healthiest person around?
Just in case you have any doubts as what [...]
Living off the fat of the land
Scientists have come to aid of many people who are over weight but find it so hard to lose weight and so find themselves in a position where they want to lose weight and get fitter, but simply cannot shift the pounds needed to make any significant weight loss.
In a joint but separate effort by [...]
It’s all in the urine
With a renewed interest into all things medieval, we have seen programmes that are following how they people of the time thought, lived and died. But before this interest blossomed there were research teams who have been working relentlessly on finding out the facts on how these people really lived and thought.
Scientists at the Imperial [...]
Keeping your teeth white
Due to the amount of products and advertising that we can see around regarding products that keep your teeth nice and white, we can assume that this is one the major requirement for people keen to look good.
But with all of these products being at the top end of the scale when it come to [...]
Death risk from vitamins
Millions of people every day take some sort of vitamin, mineral or both and without a doubt every single one of them believes that these capsules or tablets are actually doing them good and why not? After all it is what they have been told over a long period of time.
But it seems that there [...]
Fatty diet helps against epilepsy
Epilepsy has for many years been treated by drugs, this has a varied amount of success due to the severity of the neurological disorder. In the most severe cases there has been little hope of the patient being to carry out a normal life style and in some cases being hospitalised for long periods of [...]
March 25, 2008Sorting your body clock out
In this day and age it is really difficult to get and in fact keep a proper routine, as there are so many different circumstances that affect our lives. That is not including all of the daily working pressures that build up these days too.
But with a hectic lifestyle it is always going to be [...]
Doctors not to treat old and unhealthy
This is a very serious situation brewing here, doctors who are paid to look after the everyone in the UK are calling for the NHS to withdraw treatment from people who are either too old or people that lead an unhealthy lifestyle.
There are four main categories that the doctors want to be able to say [...]
Caffeine connected to miscarriages
As if being pregnant is not serious enough now researchers from the US have discovered that is a pregnant woman is in the habit of drinking two or more cups of coffee a day then they could be putting their baby at risk.
In fact it is thought that on average there is a twelve per [...]
Cloned food, is it safe?
This is the sort of question that crops up in the end of the world sci-fi scenarios, but then it was fiction and now it fact. But how safe is it for us to eat food that has been created in a lab?
All of the relevant authorities believe that this type of food is completely [...]