Statin pills, the drugs that treat high cholesterol levels, are set to be prescribed to over 1.5m more people in the UK under new government guidelines.

‘High-risk‘ patients are to be selected from GPs’ records and offered the chance to benefit from the treatment.

The estimations have been made by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE).

Healthy eating can come from the strangest of sources.

Sure, we all know if you eat plenty of fruit and vegetables and cut down on sugary snacks you are on the right track.

But there are foods we just don’t associate with healthy eating. Or, at least, we just didn’t even think about them in the first place.

You won’t be surprised to hear that doner kebabs are really, really bad for you - it’s something that everybody is aware of.

But do you know exactly how much fat is in one of these late-night mistakes?

Double your daily allowance, that’s how much. Or, in real terms, 139g of pure fat. Disgusting!

In other horror statistics, an average kebab contains 10g of salt - you shouldn’t be eating any more than 6g each day - and 25% of the entire kebab is made up of fat. Feeling sick yet?

Rheumatoid arthritis patients who follow a vegan diet and avoid gluten can lessen the risk of a heart attack or stroke, a new study has found.

People who suffer from rheumatoid arthritis are at high risk of getting cardiovascular diseases, but as a gluten-free diet can lower cholesterol and raise levels of natural antibodies found within the body.

The leader of the study, Johan Frostegard of the Karolinska University Hospital in Sweden, gave 38 of his arthritic patients a gluten-free and vegan food plan to follow, whilst another 28 ate a well-balanced but non-vegan diet for a year.