by Christine M | Feb 27, 2017 | General health, Happiness, Mind/body, Wellbeing
Watching our wonderful feathered friends makes you happy. But don’t just take my word for it. This is the conclusion drawn by researchers at the University of Exeter, the British Trust for Ornithology and the University of Queensland after quizzing more than 270...
by Christine M | Jan 13, 2017 | Infectious diseases, Scientific research
Day of the Dead, Night of the Living Dead, Return of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Shaun of the Dead, The Walking Dead… The public appetite for zombie tales shows no sign of waning. And now a bunch of physics students from the University of Leicester has...
by Christine M | Oct 21, 2016 | Uncategorized
My drink of choice is definitely tea (sorry, sour cherry juice, you’re in second place). Green tea, black tea, white tea, herbal tea, rooibos tea – you name it, I drink it, not just the conventional way but cold brewed too. So when those nice people at...
by Christine M | Oct 10, 2016 | Food and drink, General health
There are so many rules and regulations in the healthy eating game, you almost need a calculator and a clipboard each time you step into the kitchen. Five portions a day of this, three portions of that, no more than so many units of such and such… and so on. But...
by Christine M | Sep 21, 2016 | Food and drink, Happiness
Alcohol helps us lose social inhibitions – that much we know (and we don’t need experts to tell us about it either). But what about beer specifically? Well according to scientists from Basel’s University Hospital, it affects the way we see specific...