Sedentary lifestyles can increase risks to health and amongst other things contribute towards high blood pressure, mobility problems, osteoporosis, cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, obesity, anxiety and depression. It is important we become more mindful and try to increase our daily activity levels for the benefit of our own wellbeing.
A free and natural form of exercise, walking has been found to have a whole host of health benefits…
Raising awareness of the dangers and health implications of high cholesterol is an important message.
Firstly, what is cholesterol?
It is a blood fat that is made in the liver, and can also be...
Garlic is a plant species in the Allium family, and is closely related to onions, shallots, leeks and chives. A number of cloves make up one single garlic bulb.
Garlic is a popular ingredient in...
Know your numbers week is an awareness campaign run by Blood Pressure UK. It is aimed at raising awareness of high blood pressure, encouraging all adults to get a blood pressure check, to seek advice and adopt positive lifestyle habits to reach and maintain a healthy blood pressure...
Proline is an amino acid. Amino acids are commonly described as the building blocks of protein.
Proline is considered a non-essential amino acid as some can...
Who is Linus Pauling?
From America; Linus Pauling was a Nobel Prize winning biochemist of the twentieth century. Extraordinarily gifted, he was born in Portland, Oregon in 1901, and lived until 1994; devoting his life to science.
Linus made significant breakthroughs and...
