Water is an essential nutrient for life and is considered the ideal drink to quench thirst and ensure hydration. But what should our total daily fluid intake be? In healthy adults, fluid intake is regulated by thirst. Water is an essential nutrient for life and is considered the ideal drink to quench thirst and ensure hydration. Ironically,
Middle-aged women who eat in a rush tend to be heavier than those who eat slowly, a new report from New Zealand shows. The study doesn’t prove that speed-eating will necessarily cause women to pack on extra kilos, but researchers believe it might influence how much food people ingest. “It’s possible that with rapid eating,
“One World, One Home, One Heart.” This is the theme for World Heart Day on 29 September 2011. The Heart and Stroke Foundation South Africa (HSFSA) is challenging all South Africans to do just one thing to improve the health of their heart during Heart Awareness Month in September. How many of us spare a thought for
Coffee has been shown to reduce the risk of skin cancer by helping to kill off damaged cells that could otherwise turn into tumours, according to a US study. The findings indicate that moderate caffeine drinking, or perhaps even applying coffee to the skin, could be useful in warding off non-melanoma cancer, the most commonly diagnosed of all skin
A team of researchers from the University of Valladolid (Spain) has analysed 40 brands of beer, discovering that dark beer has more free iron than pale and non-alcoholic beers. Iron is essential to the human diet, but also helps oxidise the organic compounds that give these beverages stability and flavour. According to the analysis carried out
You can’t survive without sleep! You need sleep as much as you need food. Many people neglect the importance of having enough sleep without knowing that humans can actually survive longer without food than without sleep. With water alone, an average person could survive a month to two without food (that also varies from an
Researchers have found a new way to control the amount we eat: use a bigger fork. While numerous studies have focused on portion sizes and their influence on how much we eat, researchers Arul and Himanshu Mishra and Tamara Masters looked at how bite sizes affect quantities ingested. To do this, they conducted field research in
The kitchen is where we find the greatest abundance of nature’s gift in our homes, and so it should come as no surprise that not only will you find the ingredients for the most luxurious body treatments; the craftiest repellent for pests or the toughest solutions for cleaning in your kitchen but that all sorts
People who got very little sleep ate more, but didn’t burn any extra kilojoules in a new study that adds to evidence supporting a link between sleep deprivation and weight gain. Although the findings don’t prove that sleeplessness causes people to pack on extra kilograms, or exactly how the relationship between sleep and body weight might work, they
Step 1: Understanding the relationship between anaemia and food Iron deficiency is the most common cause of anaemia. The most common cause of iron deficiency is chronic blood loss, usually due to excessive menstruation, or due to bleeding into or from the gut as a result of a peptic ulcer, gastritis, haemorrhoids or in children,