Wellness in the News: Weight Training helpful for Arthritis Patients (BBC Health)

As reported in BBC Health, patients suffering with Rheumatoid Arthritis reported significant improvement in muscle tone and general functionality such as walking, after a 24 week period of intensive weight training. While this type of therapy may not be suitable for everyone, the extremely positive results of this small study suggests that such high intensity [...]

BBC Health News Update: Mother’s Hugs and Kisses Breeds Confidence

BBC Health reported on a 30 year long study of mothers and their babies. It turns out that the children of mothers who were affectionate with their babies developed into confident, well adjusted adults according to the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. In this study some 500 mothers were rated on their ability to [...]

BBC Health News: Oldest woman on record dies at 111

BBC Health reports that the UK’s oldest person on record, Eunice Bowman, died peacefully in her sleep at age 111. Eunice credited her long life to never drinking or smoking and a “tipple of honey” to help keep her going. You can read the full story here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-10687910

BBC Health News Update: Finally some good news for people with large heads!

Ok, all you folks with large heads who may or may not have been the brunt of many a joke over the years. It seems that you may have the last laugh after all. According to BBC Health, Alzheimer’s suffers with the largest heads feared better than those with smaller heads. It seems that having [...]

BBC Health News Update: Cancer survival figures ‘double’ since 1970s

The latest cancer news from BBC Health News is that survival rates for some types of cancer have doubled over the last 40 years.  And this is great news.  “People with breast, bowel and ovarian cancers as well as non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma are now twice as likely to survive for at least 10 years than they [...]