Having trouble drifting off when it comes to bedtime but fed up of counting sheep? Try these alternative sleepy time tips to help you into the world of slumber: 1.     Don’t force it Unfortunately none of us possess the power to ‘will’ ourselves to sleep, so thinking and wishing and praying for it to happen read more »

Californian scientists have used brain scans to unveil how the brain deals with traumatic memories whilst we sleep. A research team from The University of California showed a group of participants a series of emotional images and then scanned them a few hours later as they viewed the images for a second time. Between the read more »

Love handles, muffin tops, beer-bellies, overhang, middle-aged-spread … all terms favoured by the media for that unwanted belly fat so many of us seem to have. A survey recently named excess belly fat as the UK’s biggest body hang-up (or hang-over?). So the most logical way to beat the bulge it is to jump on read more »

Obesity is at an all time high, good parenting is at an all-time low. Have we ‘squandered’ our chance to create an Olympic legacy of fitness, as sports medicine specialists claim? One leading sports medicine specialist, Dr Andy Franklyn-Miller, has warned that the government’s failure to give PE the same priority as other subjects has read more »

Figures show that the sales of GPS trackers is booming as the nations women become more and more paranoid about their husbands having affairs. Earlier this month a top London oncologist became so paranoid that her husband was having an affair that she hired a detective agency to place a GPS tracking device underneath his read more »

Autumn leaves falling, frost laced trees and snow covered country scenes, it all sounds so very picaresque but for many, the reality of autumn and winter is far less story book.  We now know for certain from research that the dramatic reduction in sunlight hours during winter can have a serious physical and emotional impact read more »

Today we live in an era of technology and progression. We’re inundated with hundreds of products claiming to improve our lives. But, of all of our incredible inventions, big ideas and medical breakthroughs, we’ve yet to produce anything to reduce the 100% mortality rate. Dr Sarah Brewer (of the Telegraph) believes that we’re all conditioned read more »

Social networking site Facebook causes 1 in 5 online divorces, according to a recent claim by divorce lawyers. With a staggering 800 million users logging into Facebook on a regular basis across the globe (equal to the population of the whole world only 250 years ago), you have to wonder what everyone’s really getting up read more »

Despite the increasing popularity of social networking sites, a recent study has revealed that adults have an average of just 2 close friends. Cornell University assistant professor Matthew Brashears asked 2,000 adults to name anyone with whom they had discussed something important with within the past six months. According to the results, almost half of read more »

According to a recent study that has been published in the Journal of Physical Activity and Health, not putting the clocks back each October could help in the fight against rising childhood obesity rate.  Despite the changing clocks allowing us one extra precious hour in bed, a new study has revealed that the negatives could read more »