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BizNews Health covers cutting-edge research, advances, opinions and debates in medicine, health and wellbeing from orthodox, complementary and alternative perspectives. We have a special focus on nutrition, fitness, longevity medicine, and prevention of non-communicable diseases – such as obesity, cancer, type 2 diabetes, heart disease and stroke, increasingly mood disorders such as depression, and dementias. We include lifestyle and travel to healthy destinations, since mind and body are integrally connected, and optimum health is not just the absence of disease, but a state of complete physical, mental, and even spiritual wellbeing.
Your heart rate can change in seconds, depending on what you are doing and feeling, whether you are standing up, sitting down, exercising vigorously, or having a romantic Valentine’s Day tryst. The aim is to get your heart rate up often enough, so that settles down into a slow rate at rest. That will help … Read more
Imagine for a moment what life would be like if you started going blind. American athlete Michael Stone had to face that from a young age. Now ‘legally blind’, he chooses to set his sights above vision-imposed limitations. He races in gruelling triathlons to raise money in support of research into cures for genetic eye … Read more
It has been called ‘white poison’, which may be a little extreme – to some. Sugar in moderation is not necessarily damaging to your health, and it is a source of energy. However, it’s easy to consume far too much. Sugar is common not only in carbonated soft drinks, chocolates, cakes and sweets, but also … Read more
Here’s a nice change: profit-driven multinational pharmaceutical companies are seeing the value in collaboration and co-operation with competitors, it seems, to get new medicines onto the market sooner. Here’s hoping they spend just as much quality time making sure those medicines are safe, and don’t wait for the drugs to kill people before they … Read more