International organizations and governments are now more or less agreed we have an epidemic of obesity so, for the research community, the big question is which diet to recommend. Note the “recommend”. There’s no willingness in any government to try forcing a change in what we eat. The best first step is to recommend the [...]

Whenever you go online, there are headlines everywhere. Some attract our attention and we click through to find out more. Others strike no chord and our lack of knowledge continues. Looking back over the last ten years, it’s become impossible to avoid learning about the risks associated with obesity. Everyone makes the link between this [...]

It’s a sad biological fact of life that as we age, our hair slowly thins. The way it works is quite simple. There’s a natural cycle of growth, resting, shedding and regrowth. It usually takes between eighteen and twenty-four months for each hair to go through this cycle. Each time a hair is shed, the [...]

Although there are some signs the recession may be coming to an end, this does not change the long-term damage to the lives of millions of people. When writing about the housing bubble and the behavior of bankers, it’s customary only to talk about the money and leave the rest of the bad news as [...]

We sometimes experience nervousness. It is a common feeling. Being human gives us a whole spectrum of emotions to keep up with. These feelings and emotions either are good for us or bad. We can pretend to not notice those but they become a part of your life if we try to leave them behind [...]

Physical pain is the most unpleasant feeling in the world. You can try to escape it, pretend to not notice it or take medication on your own without any special consultations, but you can’t deny the fact that you have to fix health problems when they happen to you. At the end of the day, [...]

When facing anxiety disorders a person can have all of its activities, both social and individual, affected in a negative way. And if no treatment is undertaken such disorders usually tend to become even more severe. Anxiety disorders are usually associated with the feeling of uncertainty and uncontrollable fear, experienced by adults beyond the age [...]

The majority of men, particularly those who are older than 40 years of age, can experience erectile dysfunction (also known as male impotence) at a certain point, with the problem having various degrees of severity. And no matter how mild or severe erection problems might be in any particular case, it always causes stress, depression, [...]

One of the things that seems to happen to people when they become famous, is a sense they are somehow better than us in everything. We put them up on a pedestal and “worship” them. If worship is too strong a word for you, then we want to see them as role models. They become [...]

We should not blame the bacteria that humans treat each other so badly. All they want is somewhere warm to reproduce with plenty of food. That the results cause people so much emotional pain is hardly their fault. Like most other diseases and disorders, acne is what it is. Acne does not judge us. It [...]