One of the most important things you can do to reduce your risk of heart disease is to stop smoking. Smokers younger than 50 are five times more likely than non-smokers to die of coronary heart disease .

If you ask anyone what an addiction is, they'll probably say it's being unable to stop using a substance, for example an illegal drug such as heroin, or maybe alcohol.

If you decide to increase the amount of fibre you eat, try to drink more water too. Your body doesn't digest fibre, so you need the extra water to help it flow through your digestive system with ease.

The proper working of the brain depends on a balance: too many nerve cells sending messages at once without enough being blocked can produce a sort of electrical storm - or a seizure.

The research from juice and juice drink brand 'Minute Maid’1 reveals that amid claim and counter claim, a worrying number of Brits are rejecting basic healthy eating maxims: One in six (17%) don’t believe that being overweight can lead to

A body mass index calculator can help you find out if you're underweight.

Legal eagles have had an average of four days off in the past year and estate agents have called in sick due to colds and flu three days.

Stay in the shade between 11am and 3pm when the rays are at their most damaging.

In rare circumstances, the pituitary gland produces excessive amounts of GH. Invariably this is the result of a pituitary tumour, which in most cases is non-cancerous.

These different forms are known as juvenile macular degeneration, early-onset macular degeneration or macular dystrophy.

It's also known as infectious mononucleosis or kissing disease (long ago it was realised that the infection was passed on through saliva - for example, by kissing).

Bacterial causes are less common but tend to be more severe. They include campylobacter, shigella and E. coli infections.

Fat can be divided into two groups - saturated and unsaturated.

After this point, as a natural part of the ageing process, your bones lose their density and grow weaker. If you haven't had enough calcium in your diet prior to this, there's an increased risk that your bones won't be

Getting a child into a regular sleeping habit is one of the hardest tricks of parenting.

Colds and flu are caused by viruses. The infections are contagious, passed on by tiny droplets and hand contact.

In all children, the development of bladder function control and night-time urine production is a slow process. Few children are dry at night before the age of three, and bed-wetting is quite common up to the age of eight. In

As robots are traditionally known as high tech walking calculators, it seems only right that we should now design this humble appliance to look just like one. It certainly adds a funky edge to your pencil case. this calculator does