Main NACNE (the UK Advisory Council on Nutrition Education) recommendations: •    Don’t worry about how much cholesterol you eat •    Don’t change the amount of protein you eat •    Reduce alcohol intake to 4 per cent of total calories at most. (This means in practice a maximum of one pint of beer or two glasses of wine a [...]

Varicose veins affect men and women equally. You have to rest your legs, above your heart, by lying down and putting a pillow under your ankles, twice a day for about 20 minutes if possible. It is important not to wear clothes that are too tight, especially underclothing. This can cut off the circulation and [...]

Ginseng, in combination with sarsaparilla and serenoa, could be useful for males over 40 years to help increase sexual rejuvenation and vitality and is useful in the treatment of nonmalignant prostatic enlargement. An interesting study was carried out on ginseng by Professor Lakhovsky who said that ginseng emits an ultra-violet type of mitogenetic or gurwitch [...]

Diarrhoea can be caused by antibiotics, food poisoning, anxiety. Such attacks are usually short. Prolonged attacks indicate something more serious, such as a food allergy or a major disease of the colon. Loss of fluid is a side effect and can be critical especially if your children are affected. Babies and very young children can [...]

There are two types of burns. Deep-thickness burns which affect the whole skin and deeper tissue and the skin may look black and charred or white. As the nerve endings are often damaged there may be no pain. Superficial burns occur on the surface layers of the skin. They are usually red and may have [...]

Up to 80% of Australian teenagers are affected by acne. Those who suffer the most are those with an oily skin. The main cause of acne in adolescents is the increased production of hormones: oestrogen in the young woman and androgen in the youth. This increase in hormones stimulates the sebaceous glands of the skin, [...]