Lifestyle Features

Top tips for improving your sleep

Get a good night's sleep with this advice from Dr. John Marsden and Alison Dillon, authors of Live Well...Be Healthy, (BBC Books)

Using a sunscreen

There will always be times when you're out in the sun without adequate shade or cover-up clothing. This is when sunscreen is useful for protecting exposed skin from the sun's rays. Sunscreen alone will not protect completely from sun damage and you should never use sunscreen in order to spend longer in the sun. It should be used to increase your protection

Weird blackouts

I've been experiencing a few weird blackouts and it's happened twice in the last few months. One was just recent ? I went all sickly and everything went blurry and black and white.

What is my ideal weight?

Dr Ian Campbell, President of the National Obesity Forum gives his views on setting an 'ideal weight'.

What is obesity?

We define the medical causes, symptoms, effects of obesity and the treatments available

What's your reason to be cheerful?

What's your reason to be cheerful?

Why are we getting so fat?

We look at how changes in our lifetyles and eating habits are leading to an obesity problem

Why is it good to detox?

Put simply, an occasional detox works because it gives your body a break.

Winter soul warmers

Brighten up your world with our guide to beating the blues

Worried about high blood pressure

My blood pressure an pulse is very high. I have to go back for a follow-up blood pressure check and feel worried.