Lifestyle
Could eating sugar help you lose weight?
Eating sugar could help you loose weight according to new research. Although scientists have known since 2013 that a version of the gene FGF21 makes us consume more carbohydrates, now, for the first time, a group of researchers is showing that, despite the effect it has on diet, this gene variant actually decreases fat in the body. Timothy Frayling, a molecular geneticist at the University of Exeter Medical School in the UK and the study’s first author, said: “We were...
How to change my career
How to change my career: Step 1 - making the right decision about moving jobs Someone once told me 'Everyone is looking for a new job, a new house, or a new lover'. If you're lucky in love, and a new house isn't your priority, then it's a new job you seek. Chances are you've been trawling the internet searching information on 'how to change my career'. The London Economic interviewed expert Life Consultant Oliver Martin to get his top...
New dating app launched for people who were privately educated
A new dating app has been launched for people who were privately educated. The app promises to pair people with partners "from similar backgrounds", with users able to adjust their preferences to find people who are their right "cup of tea". From city workers to country living, the app delivers an up-market version of Tinder for it's "toff" userbase, enabling people to "start the courting" when a match has been made. Its Facebook page has memes mocking people who book an...
Divorce or death in family can speed up the ageing of men’s brains
Fateful life events ages the brain by four months
Simple blood test detects Alzheimer’s years before symptoms start
It distinguishes between toxic and healthy forms of a protein that collects in clumps in dementia patients - causing confusion and memory loss
Couple marry just 24 hours after terminal cancer diagnosis
Kevin McCarthy got down on one knee when he learned the love of his life, Mandy Lucitt, was suffering from incurable pancreatic cancer.
Love Island star Olivia Attwood dragged out of nightclub after drinking Strongbow straight out of the tap
Love Island star Olivia Attwood was thown out of a nightclub after she hopped up on the bar and began drinking Strongbow cider out of the tap. The reality TV personality, 26, put on the exuberant display at The Source Bar in Maidstone, Kent, at 2.20 am on Thursday. CCTV caught her draped across the bar drinking cider straight from the tap before a security guard in a hi-vis vest picked her up and carried her out of the venue....
‘Appalling childhood tooth extraction statistics illustrate need for urgent action in England’, charity declares
Leading health charity, the Oral Health Foundation, is calling for urgent action to address the continued increase in the number of children having their teeth extracted in hospitals throughout England. This call to action follows the release today of statistics from Public Health England (PHE) which show that a child in England has a rotten tooth removed in hospital every ten minutes, which is around 141 children a day. Speaking about these shocking numbers, Dr Nigel Carter OBE, CEO of...
A young mum blasts McDonald’s after staff ban her from breastfeeding her son in the restaurant
A new mum was left in tears after she was banned from breastfeeding her baby in McDonald’s – and told to take the tot into a public TOILET. Christine Wilson, 22, had gone into the fast-food restaurant in order to discreetly feed her seven-month-old son Brooklyn when he started to cry. But she was ordered out by staff who instead told her the only place she could breastfeed was in the public loos in a shopping centre. Christine has blasted...