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Last autumn, the Scottish government published a consultation document on reducing obesity.  The document sets out how being obese harms health and the ways in which the government aims to encourage the food companies to reduce their marketing to children and encourage people to eat more healthily.

The consultation acknowledges how hard it can be to eat healthily especially because unhealthy...Read More

Women are up to three times more likely to die from heart disease than breast cancer, but many of them do not recognise this fact. Traditionally heart disease has been seen as a man’s disease, with women’s risk of developing it thought as being lower. Studies have shown that oestrogen has a protective effect against heart disease in women, but...Read More

Scientists from the University of Sussex and Portsmouth have been examining whether horses are able to remember and understand human facial expressions. The University of Sussex has previously put together a directory of horse facial expressions and carried out another study where they found that equines are able to read human emotions, as can dogs. This study was published in...Read More

Concerned that members of the public were failing to clearly understand the labelling of sunscreen, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society conducted a survey into how much the public understood the system. They found that only 8% of the 2000 people surveyed, knew what the SPF of a product measured and that other factors would indicate the full protection of a product...Read More

The pollen count is at its highest when it’s warm, windy and humid. People who suffer from hay fever are more at risk from the symptoms during these times of the year. People who have hay fever are suffering from an allergic reaction to pollen, which can come into contact with the nose, mouth, eyes and throat. The pollen count...Read More

Scientists at the University of Sussex have used their happiness app, Mappiness, to measure how football fans feel at a game. They found that fans felt more pain in a defeat of their team than they felt joy when their team won. The research was published in a paper for the National Institute of Economic and Social Research.

The smartphone app...Read More