Category: Health

New Africa/ Shutterstock Cottage cheese is having a moment. It’s being added to dips, mixed into batters and even used in pizza and brownies. It’s touted as a high-protein food that can help build muscle and lose fat. But the research supporting these benefits is not quite as abundant as the number of viral cottage […]

Any type of walking is good for you. Peopleimages/Shutterstock.com Walking is having a wellness makeover on social media. The latest trend, “lymphatic walking”, involves swinging your arms more, maintaining an upright posture and taking deeper breaths while you walk. These actions are said to help move lymph around the body. Its followers claim it can […]

Kues/ Shutterstock In order to lose weight, most of us know it’s a matter of eating less and being more physically active. By putting our body into a calorie deficit, we “burn” more calories than we’re taking in – and so we lose weight. But while most of us are familiar with how to make […]

The US congresswoman has been documenting her journey on social media. lev radin/ Shutterstock US congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez revealed that, at 36, she has decided to freeze her eggs. In an online social media video, Ocasio-Cortez said she chose to go through the process in order to “feel more in control of my life.” She […]

New Africa/Shutterstock.com Not all physical activity is equal when it comes to protecting the brain from dementia. Where and why we move may matter more than most people realise. A large new review of studies published in The Lancet Public Health found that leisure-time physical activity – such as sport, dancing or going to the […]

New Africa/Shutterstock Doctors have long known that changes in body temperature can affect seizure activity. Fever can trigger seizures in some young children, while in rare forms of epilepsy, bathing in hot water can bring on a seizure. Raised body temperature can also trigger seizures in Dravet syndrome, a rare form of epilepsy that usually […]

Mafi R/Shutterstock.com For decades, the answer to “how much sleep does an adult need?” has been simple: eight hours. The idea dates back to the mid-19th century when the notion of eight hours of work, eight for recreation and eight for sleep first took hold. But growing evidence suggests that eight hours may not be […]

marilyn barbone/Shutterstock Lentils, beans and chickpeas have been feeding people for thousands of years. Lentils are among the world’s earliest cultivated crops, with archaeological evidence tracing them back to the beginnings of agriculture. Yet scientists are still learning what happens inside our bodies when we eat them. A 2026 review of the research examined the […]

Kathy Hutchins/ Shutterstock Michael Jackson’s daughter, Paris, recently revealed that she had undergone nine rounds of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) to treat severe depression. In the interview, Jackson said that although she felt the treatment “was working”, she said getting “shocked once a month for the rest of my life” wasn’t feasible for her. ECT involves […]

Optimisation is never supposed to become the purpose of life. DannyOliva/ Shutterstock If you want to improve yourself, your health or your lifestyle, you need to do it to the “maxx” – according to social media, at least. If you want to better your appearance, you need to try “looksmaxxing”. If you want to fix […]