10 tips for a healthy lifestyle - Our fully researched guide to the top 10 ways to live healthily.

Memory: Stay sharp by eating liver and shellfish - If you want to keep your memory into ripe old age, eat plenty of liver and shellfish. It seems that vitamin B12, which is found in these foods, is on...

Dementia - Use it or lose it - An active mind is a healthy mind. That is the conclusion of a recent US study covering 21 years. Researchers found that regularly reading books, playi...

Healthy living: - Most of us know how, we just don't - Most of us may know how to live healthily, but very few of us actually do so. One study of 153,000 American adults discovered that just 3 per cent we...

Brain Gym: Do the computer games help ward off dementia? - Can we keep our cognitive abilities sharp by playing computer games such as the Nintendo Brain Age, Mindweavers’s MindFit or the Brain Fitness Program...

The best alternative treatment for alzheimer’s disease - As every other unruly or spirited child is today labelled as having ‘ADHD’ (attention-deficit/hyperactive disorder), so many older people who start to...

Dementia: Light therapy can reverse the problem, scientists discover - Scientists reckon they’ve stumbled on a way to reverse the effects of dementia and memory loss. Older people who are exposed to low-level infra-red l...

Eat your vegetables - And avoid lung cancer - Cruciferous vegetables such as cabbage and broccoli can help protect against lung cancer. They are rich in isothiocyanates, which are lung-cancer prev...