Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease is a chronic liver disease which is not due to alcohol abuse but rather metabolic syndrome. The condition is reversible, which means that, with the right treatment, the liver can be healed. Without treatment, the condition can progress to steatohepatitis and later on also cirrhosis; conditions that cannot be treated. However,… Read More »
Are you feeling more stressed out than usual? For Stress Awareness Week, Health Coach and Mindfulness Teacher Louise Murray reveals 12 stress-reducing foods that may help you to stress a little less and live a little more It’s safe to say Britons may have started this week slightly more stressed-out than usual, given the Prime Minister’s… Read More »
If you are like many people who suffer from back pains, you probably want just to sit and do nothing until the pain goes away. You fear that any physical activity may worsen the pain and increase your suffering. The good news is that walking can help you ease the pain as you walk towards… Read More »
The distribution and function of the body’s adipose tissue change throughout the course of life. A special kind of adipocytes known as brown fat cells are capable of using fatty deposit energy reserves by a process of generating heat called thermogenesis. As we get older, brown fat cells change into white fat cells. Thermogenisis stops… Read More »
Winter blues are real, the cold weather doesn’t just bring along a chill in the air, it also brings decreases the pep in our step we might have in summer. What is SAD? Seasonal affective disorder has been recognised as a medical condition since the 1990s, the NHS estimates that around one in 15 people… Read More »