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There is nothing right with the Body Mass Index (BMI). A sinister story.
This post is fuelled by my ever-increasing frustration with the use of the BMI as a measure of someone’s ability to maintain their weight within a tiny range and, by so doing, be deemed ‘healthy’. I can’t imagine there is a person reading this who hasn’t had their BMI...
The Secret Ingredient in the Mediterranean Diet
A recently published study from Harvard, carried out since prior to the Second World War, suggests that the one over-riding factor which contributes to happiness and health in later life is connection with other people. Those subjects who were most satisfied with...
Why are women more likely to suffer from IBS than men?
Now there is one department in which, try as we might, women and men will never achieve equality, and that’s the gut and, in particular, in relation to Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS). Differences vary worldwide but, in general, women suffer from IBS 1.5 to 3 times...
