New research has highlighted how even brief self-affirmations – reflecting on your positive attributes – can boost general well-being and sense of self-worth, with the effects being felt longer-term.

Adding a banana to a smoothie impacts how much nutrition from other foods your body absorbs, new research has shown. The ...

Cooking helps to retain the heme iron content, with beef preserving the highest levels, followed by pork, fish, and chicken.

Circadian rhythms are orchestrated through the light detected in the eye’s retina, which is transmitted to genes and proteins in the body which build the internal clock rhythm. This balance can be ...

Eva Saxl was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in 1940 at the age of 19. Alongside her husband, Victor, Eva was able to survive World War II by making her own insulin. The risks were vast, but when Eva’s ...

People who accumulate their daily steps through longer walks have a lower risk of cardiovascular disease and death than those who undertake a number of shorter walks, new findings have shown.