Set your alarm! Eating breakfast before 8:30am can reduce your risk of developing type 2 diabetes, study finds Previous studies have suggested that eating over a shorter period daily is better Researchers from the US analysed health and diet data on 10,574 adults in the US They divided the subjects into groups based on the durations … Read more
You may not know how to say it, but bakuchiol is the hottest thing in skincare. Pronounced ba-koo-chee-ol, this hard-working ingredient tackles the biggest beauty bugbears including wrinkles, brown spots, breakouts and inflammation. Made from the seeds of the Indian babchi plant, it has been used to treat skin diseases for centuries — and now … Read more
Eating SESAME SEEDS could reduce the risk of Parkinson’s by preventing neuronal damage, study finds Osaka City University experts tested a chemical in sesame seeds on Parkinson’s Chemical sesaminol is found in shells discarded in the production of sesame oil Tests on mice found the chemical improved dopamine levels and motor function By Ryan Morrison … Read more
My late father-in-law invested in some AIM shares as an approach to reducing inheritance tax. Unfortunately, he died before the majority of the investments had reached the qualifying two years. We understood that in this case his estate must pay the tax he was trying to avoid. This was mentioned in the brochure from the … Read more
Exercising for just two-and-a-half hours a week can reduce your risk of migraine, a new study suggests. Researchers at a headache clinic at the University of Washington looked into the amount of exercise achieved per week by patients diagnosed with migraine. They found exercising above the two-and-a-half hour threshold – the minimum recommended by the … Read more
England’s 10pm coronavirus curfew on pubs and restaurants did nothing to reduce the spread of the disease, a study has suggested. Scientists looked at data from nearly 4,000 Britons to measure the effect of various lockdown measures last summer and autumn. They found the controversial curfew, introduced on September 24, had ‘no measurable effect’ on reducing the number … Read more
A laboratory study suggests that the South African variant of the coronavirus may reduce antibody protection from the Pfizer Inc/BioNTech SE vaccine by two-thirds, and it is not clear if the shot will be effective against the mutation, the companies said on Wednesday. The study found the vaccine was still able to neutralize the virus … Read more
Wearing a face mask can reduce your risk of severe Covid-19: Humidity inside coverings limits the spread of the virus to the lungs leading to milder infection, study shows NIH researchers assessed humidity of a space before and after wearing a mask Masks increase humidity by between 38 and 90 per cent compared to maskless This … Read more
Does your partner snore like a circular saw? Help may be at hand from a device that can reduce snorts by a fifth by delivering electric currents to the wearer’s tongue. The eXciteOSA unit does not actually zap the wearer while they sleep as punishment for snoring (as appealing as that might seem to some … Read more
Statins ‘cut risk of Covid death’: Study finds cholesterol drugs taken by eight million Britons reduce chance of dying to virus by 43% in hospital patients Statins tackle ‘bad’ blood cholesterol and they are used by eight million Britons A study has now found giving statins to Covid patients can reduce death risk The study was … Read more