Health

A good night's kip is as good as winning £200,000 on the lottery, according to new research. A study found boosting slumber would make Brits as happy as scooping the jackpot. Scientists analysed the sleep patterns of more than 30,500 people and calculated what it would be worth in terms of mental and physical wellbeing. Improved quality and quantity of shut eye over four years were linked with higher scores on the General Health Questionnaire - a tool used by...

Falling off the wagon is a frustrating but often inevitable part of New Year’s resolutions. The good news is that you’re not alone: 80% of people fail their New Year's resolutions by February. However, this shouldn’t mean you’re confined to a month of depressing failure, it can also be the month you start again. You’ve learnt from your mistakes and can use this to perfect your goals second time round. Whether it’s swapping the gym for corporate wellness programmes, or...

Along with heart disease and diabetes, prostate cancer could become one of the most important health issues for men within the next 20 years so it’s important that all men are aware of the risk factors and possible symptoms which they should always discuss with their GP. Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men in the UK – it kills one man every hour and currently there are over a quarter of a million men living with the...

Denise is 49-years-old and is struggling in the benefits system. She’s currently living in Bristol, but is from Leicestershire. Denise’s diagnosis is Bipolar type II. She was diagnosed in 1991 when she was around 24 or 25. But she’d experienced mental health problems since age 16. She was misdiagnosed with depression and PTSD before getting the right diagnosis and the right treatment. Denise also has physical health problems - fibromyalgia, mobility issues and inflammatory bowel disease. Her energy levels vary...

You don't walk into a car dealership before you did some research first. The same should be true for choosing a personal trainer. But it might be challenging to do the research, when you don’t know what to look for in the first place. Right Path Fitness team did some preliminary research for you and shared what great personal trainers are made of. 1. Experience You don’t want to be practicing with a generalist or an amateur. In that case,...

Limitations are often seen as things that hold us back and most would see a heart condition as exactly that. However, for Jonathan Stretton-Downes a 28 year old fraternal twin nothing could be further from the truth... I’ve had five heart surgeries and I’ve never let in hold me back. I don’t want my surgery to define me or dictate my life. But there have been a number of occasions over the years where people have discovered my condition and...

These shocking videos show a 22-year-old woman ‘clicking’ herself back into place due to a rare condition which sees her joints dislocate ‘60 times a day’. 22-year-old Danielle Shield was diagnosed with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome – an inherited condition which leaves her joints ‘loose’ and susceptible to ‘stick out at odd angles’ – in 2014 at 19 years old. Two years on, trainee nurse Danielle has 60 breaks or dislocations a day and has given up sport, is often reliant on...

GHOGY, an online personal training website that provides interactive personalised fitness plans via instructional videos and customisable meal plans has launched. The online personal trainer aims to motivate and transform clients into the healthiest and happiest versions of themselves. Before online fitness subscriptions became available, fitness enthusiasts were forced to either attend fitness classes, pay for an expensive personal trainer or create a programme to follow themselves, which often resulted in people giving up or obtaining injuries. Now thanks to...

A worrying story has emerged and one which everyone would do well to take notice of. A man who stubbed his toe in 2009 was told seven years later he had terminal skin cancer, due to the knock. Roland Monger, 36, was walking to work in the snow in 2009 when he slipped and broke his ankle leaving his foot in a plaster cast with his toe exposed. He then stubbed his protruding toe on a step and, despite the...