Oh heck, you don’t even have to be a smoker any more to be at risk of death and the like. So even if you’ve quit, or always managed to resist, but your honey is a smoker, you’re far more likely to have a stroke.
So does this mean you should ditch the other-half, or that you may as well join them on their peace pipe as you’re now boned anyway?
Amy Winehouse used to be a healthy, fit woman, whose only ghastly features were the tattoos that made her look like some sort of burly transvestite sailor.
However, heavy drinking and smoking have alarmingly taken their toll over the last year, making her thinner, sicker and a bit more violent.
Oh, and there’s the drugs. You can’t forget about the drugs. Anyway, all of this combined might be about to kill her, her dad Mitch says. Who’d have guessed?
Four cups of coffee a day could reduce a woman’s chances of having a baby by more than a quarter.
That’s according to researchers in Holland, who found women who got their caffeine fix more than three times a day were 26% less likely to conceive than those who drank less.
Toenails can tell a lot about a person.
For men, it can tell just how much care he takes over personal grooming and general cleaniness.
For women, according to a recent US study, it can tell you how likely they are to suffer from a heart attack.
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).
A third of all forms of cancer that happen in the UK each year could be prevented if diets and lifestyles were healthier.
That’s what experts are saying after a study has shown that the amount of people who could have been spared with a better lifestyle would have filled Wembley Stadium - 95,000, to be exact.
It all boils down to keeping a healthy weight, taking at least 30 minutes of exercise each day and filling your diet with fruit, vegetables, wholegrains and pulses.
Our guest writer Louise Robertson casts her eye over relationships, and the link to your waistline…
At the 8 month stage of every relationship, I develop anorexia, sort of… in the way that every time I look in the mirror, all I see is fat!
It’s a familiar rut and is why I believe relationships are bad for your health. You not only develop bad habits but any bad habits that you already have get stuck and it is impossible to shake them off.
Smokers are four times more likely to wake up feeling tired than non-smokers, new research has revealed.
A study carried out by a university in Baltimore, America, suggests people who smoke find it harder to get to sleep and spend less time in deep sleep.
The reason? Because they are suffering from nicotine withdrawal.
Kate Moss’s desperate attempts to stop smoking are not going to plan.
Despite covering herself in nicotine patches, the supermodel is still smoking 30 cigarettes a day.
Speaking in the Daily Mail, a source revealed: “She is trying desperately to ditch the fags as they are not good for her daughter Lila Grace, and they are not doing her skin any favours either.
Vinegar – great with fish and chips, but can also help ease arthritis.
Well, that’s according to intrepid explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes anyway, who swears by the stuff.
The 64-year-old adventurer got the first twinges of arthritis 20 years ago in his hands and hips, which he says was caused by too many expeditions spent sleeping in cold conditions.
But Fiennes insists he no longer suffers from the ailment, and says it’s all thanks to a vinegar recipe his mother passed down to him.
And the fact in 2003 he ran seven marathons in seven days and earlier this year tackled Everest, who are we to argue.
OK, the wonder cure – named Honeygar, which consists of four parts apple cider vinegar and one part raw honey – would be no good on chips (we think), but, according to Sir Fiennes, it worked wonders for his mother, who in her mid-80s was bedridden with arthritis.
Speaking to the Daily Mail newspaper, he said: “My sisters and I encouraged her to look into an alternative cure after she showed us the doctor’s X-ray, which highlighted the arthritic band in her back.”
So she looked into it, and found it in a library book which highlighted a natural cure for arthritis that included cider vinegar, honey and black molasses. The treatment also involved bathing in Epsom salt regularly.
He added: “My mother tried this method and after 18 months her condition started to improve, which was unusual in someone of her age.”
Indeed, it successfully held her pain at bay for the remaining six years of her life.
So it was only natural that when Sir Fiennes developed the same condition that he took a leaf out of his mother’s book.
In recent years he has relied upon Honeygar, which was developed by former nurse and fellow arthritis sufferer Margeret Hills, who died in 2003.
He said: “I didn’t give up impatiently as I would have done had I not seen the effects on my mother.
“It did take more than a year before the aches gradually grew less and less and eventually disappeared.
“From time to time I’ve lapsed for a while. After two or three months the arthritis begins slowly to return. It goes away - just as slowly - when I retake Honeygar daily again.”
So how does it work? Well, this is not just some old wife’s tale, it actually does have some science to back it up.
Essentially, Hills was convinced arthritis was caused by a build-up of uric acid. And the best way to neutralise that is malic acid, which is found in apple cider. Bingo!
So where can you get some? Well, the good news is Honeygar is available from all good health food shops ¬ and some bad ones too. You won’t even need a doctor’s prescription.
However, before you go rushing to the shops you should know that not everyone is convinced.
Consultant rheumatologist Professor Robert Moots, of the University of Liverpool, said: “There is no connection between dietary acids and what happens in the body.”
Spoilsport.
Vinegar – great with fish and chips, but can also help ease arthritis.
Well, that’s according to intrepid explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes anyway, who swears by the stuff.
The 64-year-old adventurer got the first twinges of arthritis 20 years ago in his hands and hips, which he says was caused by too many expeditions spent sleeping in cold conditions.
But Fiennes insists he no longer suffers from the ailment, and says it’s all thanks to a vinegar recipe his mother passed down to him.
And the fact in 2003 he ran seven marathons in seven days and earlier this year tackled Everest, who are we to argue.
OK, the wonder cure – named Honeygar, which consists of four parts apple cider vinegar and one part raw honey – would be no good on chips (we think), but, according to Sir Fiennes, it worked wonders for his mother, who in her mid-80s was bedridden with arthritis.
Speaking to the Daily Mail newspaper, he said: “My sisters and I encouraged her to look into an alternative cure after she showed us the doctor’s X-ray, which highlighted the arthritic band in her back.”
So she looked into it, and found it in a library book which highlighted a natural cure for arthritis that included cider vinegar, honey and black molasses. The treatment also involved bathing in Epsom salt regularly.
He added: “My mother tried this method and after 18 months her condition started to improve, which was unusual in someone of her age.”
Indeed, it successfully held her pain at bay for the remaining six years of her life.
So it was only natural that when Sir Fiennes developed the same condition that he took a leaf out of his mother’s book.
In recent years he has relied upon Honeygar, which was developed by former nurse and fellow arthritis sufferer Margeret Hills, who died in 2003.
He said: “I didn’t give up impatiently as I would have done had I not seen the effects on my mother.
“It did take more than a year before the aches gradually grew less and less and eventually disappeared.
“From time to time I’ve lapsed for a while. After two or three months the arthritis begins slowly to return. It goes away - just as slowly - when I retake Honeygar daily again.”
So how does it work? Well, this is not just some old wife’s tale, it actually does have some science to back it up.
Essentially, Hills was convinced arthritis was caused by a build-up of uric acid. And the best way to neutralise that is malic acid, which is found in apple cider. Bingo!
So where can you get some? Well, the good news is Honeygar is available from all good health food shops ¬ and some bad ones too. You won’t even need a doctor’s prescription.
However, before you go rushing to the shops you should know that not everyone is convinced.
Consultant rheumatologist Professor Robert Moots, of the University of Liverpool, said: “There is no connection between dietary acids and what happens in the body.”
Spoilsport.
Vinegar – great with fish and chips, but can also help ease arthritis.
Well, that’s according to intrepid explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes anyway, who swears by the stuff.
The 64-year-old adventurer got the first twinges of arthritis 20 years ago in his hands and hips, which he says was caused by too many expeditions spent sleeping in cold conditions.
But Fiennes insists he no longer suffers from the ailment, and says it’s all thanks to a vinegar recipe his mother passed down to him.
And the fact in 2003 he ran seven marathons in seven days and earlier this year tackled Everest, who are we to argue.
OK, the wonder cure – named Honeygar, which consists of four parts apple cider vinegar and one part raw honey – would be no good on chips (we think), but, according to Sir Fiennes, it worked wonders for his mother, who in her mid-80s was bedridden with arthritis.
Speaking to the Daily Mail newspaper, he said: “My sisters and I encouraged her to look into an alternative cure after she showed us the doctor’s X-ray, which highlighted the arthritic band in her back.”
So she looked into it, and found it in a library book which highlighted a natural cure for arthritis that included cider vinegar, honey and black molasses. The treatment also involved bathing in Epsom salt regularly.
He added: “My mother tried this method and after 18 months her condition started to improve, which was unusual in someone of her age.”
Indeed, it successfully held her pain at bay for the remaining six years of her life.
So it was only natural that when Sir Fiennes developed the same condition that he took a leaf out of his mother’s book.
In recent years he has relied upon Honeygar, which was developed by former nurse and fellow arthritis sufferer Margeret Hills, who died in 2003.
He said: “I didn’t give up impatiently as I would have done had I not seen the effects on my mother.
“It did take more than a year before the aches gradually grew less and less and eventually disappeared.
“From time to time I’ve lapsed for a while. After two or three months the arthritis begins slowly to return. It goes away - just as slowly - when I retake Honeygar daily again.”
So how does it work? Well, this is not just some old wife’s tale, it actually does have some science to back it up.
Essentially, Hills was convinced arthritis was caused by a build-up of uric acid. And the best way to neutralise that is malic acid, which is found in apple cider. Bingo!
So where can you get some? Well, the good news is Honeygar is available from all good health food shops ¬ and some bad ones too. You won’t even need a doctor’s prescription.
However, before you go rushing to the shops you should know that not everyone is convinced.
Consultant rheumatologist Professor Robert Moots, of the University of Liverpool, said: “There is no connection between dietary acids and what happens in the body.”
Spoilsport.
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