by Christine Morgan | Jun 14, 2010 | General health
Doing the rounds big time right now is a story about how a car’s windscreen wiper water can increase your risk for Legionnaire’s Disease – an illness you don’t hear much about these days, but still one to avoid (because it can kill you). So if you...
by Christine Morgan | Jun 3, 2010 | Food and drink, General health
Children who eat three or more burgers have a higher risk of developing asthma – well that’s one of the big health news stories doing the rounds today. Expect headlines that crucify burgers as public enemy number one of modern family living. Or something like...
by Christine Morgan | May 28, 2010 | General health
Oh not another sunbeds-give-you-skin-cancer story, I hear you say? Fraid so. Right now, it seems that hardly a month goes by without some study or other claiming the health risks of using these tanning devils (in April, we were told that they were as addictive as...
by Christine Morgan | May 27, 2010 | Food and drink, General health, Wellbeing
I imagine many riskfactorphobes are the type of people who eat organic food by the bucket-load. Yes, there are those who believe there’s too much risk involved in eating anything that’s been even slightly contaminated with pesticides or other nasties, and...
by Christine Morgan | May 26, 2010 | Food and drink, General health
It seems like everything you read about in the health news pages is all about what you shouldn’t do, and how much the things we really like are bad for us. So when something comes along that says go ahead, enjoy yourself – or something along those lines – we...