By Lydia Sherlock
Obesity is a growing (excuse the pun) problem in the UK, especially in children.
Obesity levels have trebled since the 1980s and a 2007 study carried out for the Department of Health predicts that if current trends continue, 60% of men and 50% of women will be obese by 2050. One in [...]
A vegetarian diet will make you more attactive to the opposite sex, a study by Bristol University claims.
Instead of a suntan, like perma-tanned Katie Price, a healthy English rose glow, as seen on model model Rosie Huntington Whiteley, gets temperatures rising. TV babes Holly Willoughby, 29, and Louise Redknapp, 35, swere also cited as examples [...]
Paramedics borrowed a 1950s steam train to transport an injured cyclist to safety after he collided with another rider on a cycle path between Bristol and Bath yesterday.
A charity building a respite centre for sufferers of multiple sclerosis has vowed to fight a decision by councillors to refuse planning permission for an access road.
Denise van Outen has given up breastfeeding in public on the day Bristol becomes the first city in the UK to be awarded ‘Baby Friendly’ status by UNICEF UK.
A group of Bristol volunteer fundraisers have come together to raise money for Cancer Research UK – by organising a sponsored leap across the Avon Gorge.
Scientists at Bristol University have been able to completely prevent high blood pressure in animal tests by blocking signals between the brain and kidneys.
A Bristol man whose younger brother was struck down with a muscle-wasting condition has won the support of his local MP for better wheelchair services.
Staff at Great Western Ambulance Service can feel “rightly proud”, said the service’s chief executive, after it became the most improved ambulance service in England last year.
A mother from Bristol who is dying from a lung disease, despite never having smoked a cigarette in her life, is backing a campaign to ban smoking in cars when children are passengers.
