n Health & Living, free with Monday’s Irish Independent, we talk to a Harvard biologist and author of a new book on exercise about how we have been duped by the fitness industry and Emily Hourican looks at how to sell team sports to the non-sporty child. Liadán Hynes talks to mum Liz O’Neill about… Read More »
Last year, Americans borrowed a whopping $ 88 billion to pay for their health care, according to a nationally representative survey. What’s more, 45 percent of respondents said they feared that a major health care crisis would lead to bankruptcy, and nearly 25 percent of respondents reported skipping medical treatments in order to cut costs.… Read More »
The theory that breakfast is the most important meal of the day may not hold true, research suggests. The study, published in the British Medical Journal, found that those who eat breakfast consume significantly more calories than those who skip the meal – and end up weighing more. For decades, health experts have exhorted people… Read More »