Aqua Sheko is situated in London, with only 8 exclusive massage pools. The idea is that you have your feet washed and cleaned thoroughly before taking a seat with your feet in a small but deep tank.

Inside the tank are 150 Garra Rufa fish, which are very small carp, the largest being about four inches long. These fish will gather around your feet and suck off any dead skin. The process will not hurt, and is usually described as tingling, relaxing and pleasurable.

The fish eat the skin, which will leave your feet with much less dead, hard or dry skin than before. They also secrete an enzyme that helps cure many skin diseases on the foot.

Segnala presso:

This is not the first time this hospital has come under the spotlight however, as it has emerged that back in 2002 there had been a report criticising  “many aspects of the service” regarding the Oxford hospital where there was concern of a high mortality rate of cardiac surgery patients.

A spokesperson for the hospital stated that an investigation is underway into the issues that have been raised during the temporary suspension of the paediatric cardiac surgery service they offer, with the most urgent patients waiting for surgery to be transferred to other hospitals.

Segnala presso:

Ian Janssen, lead author of the study, said:

“If two children accumulated 60 minutes of daily physical activity, the child who accumulated more activity in bouts is less likely to be obese than the one who accumulated more of their activity in a sporadic manner.”

According to the researchers’ findings, among those who moved the most throughout the day, 34 percent of the sporadically active were over weight or obese, compared with 25 per cent of the `bout` children.

Child psychologist Jocelyn Miller said:

“The benefits of daily activity increase the longer the activity is sustained. Since video games first arrived on the scene, many children don’t know how to play with toys, do pretend play or build things. If parents, teachers and policy makers believe kids are getting 60 minutes of continuous physical activity in a one-hour physical education class or activities like baseball practice, they are way off base. Children are often inactive during these periods.”

Segnala presso:

The concept of ‘grow your own’ has taken mighty strides over the last few years with the governments push to eat 5 portions of fruit or vegetables a day. Many people have already converted part of their garden to growing veg and can tell the massive difference between the mass produced tasteless items the supermarkets sell and the taste of just picked home grown produce.

One of the key elements of growing your own is being able to do it on a budget so many things can be bought cheaply or obtained for free using promotional merchandise. Whatever the case, this form of gardening is growing in popularity and has many followers.

Segnala presso:

At the British film awards and at an international trade show, it was marked as a healthier alternative to smoking and a potential way to kick the habit; the smokeless smokes have been distributed in swag bags. The makers claim that because no burning is involved, there’s no hazardous cocktail of cancer causing chemicals and gases like those produced by a regular cigarette, and as there isn’t any secondhand smoke, they can be used in places where cigarettes are banned.

However, health authorities are questioning those claims. The WHO, in September had issued a statement warning that there was no evidence to back up contentions that e-cigarettes are a safe substitute for smoking or a way to help smokers quit.

“There is no sufficient evidence that (they) are safe products for human consumption.”

Timothy O’Leary, a communication officer at the WHO’s Tobacco Free Initiative in Geneva, said this week.

Ruyan’s V8 costs about 240 and includes batteries and 20 cartridges of nicotine solution, roughly the same number of puffs as 20 packs of tobacco cigarettes.

Segnala presso:

Some patients suspected their doctor did not treat their problems seriously enough. A leading GP stated doctors were reasonably skilled at treating different eating disorders, but patients took a long time on their part to admit their problems.

The report comes after latest data showed a roughly 80% rise in the number of young girls in England being hospitalised with anorexia over the last decade. Eating disorders affect over 1.1 million people in the UK, according to an estimate.

The report based on a survey involving 1,500 people suffering from eating disorders came across respondents who thought their GP lacked comprehensive knowledge about various treatments. It praised broad national guidelines on treatment, but added implementation levels varied across the country. The report concluded the odds were largely stacked against patients. The report also highlights examples of those treated poorly by their GP.

The eating disorders charity, Beat, chief executive Susan Ringwood appreciated Gordon Brown, who has already acknowledged that action is needed to improve diagnosis as well as treatment of eating disorders.

Segnala presso:

A portion of a chips contains five times more vitamin C than a bunch of grapes. So by eating chips, people may keep cancer at bay. Even those already affected by cancer could even shrink the size of their tumours with a vitamin C-rich, deep-fried potato diet, the researchers observed.

In nutritionist Fiona Hunter’s words,

“Chips have vitamin C, a nutrient believed to help protect against certain types of cancer. People who eat food rich in vitamin C are much less likely to suffer from cancer of the oesophagus, stomach cancer and breast cancer.”

Free radicals are highly considered as unstable molecules that can cause damage within the body and are also linked to several different kinds of cancer.

Hunter added:

“Apart from vitamin C, chips also have a host of other nutrients including vitamin B1 and B6, fibre and iron. There’s no such thing as a bad food. Potatoes help control blood pressure and have dietary fibre, which is good for your bowels, when you think of potatoes, you just think about carbohydrates.”

Segnala presso:

The 15-year old cat, Ernest, has been staying at an animal shelter for 13 years. The white cat was suffering from entropion, which meant his lids turned inwards and scratched his eyeball. However, Ernest had his sight restored by contact lenses.

As the cat was too old to risk a general anesthetic, vets suggested the innovative solution. The staff at the animal centre said they had never heard of a cat wearing lenses before.

Ernest will continue to live at the animal shelter. He is a permanent and popular fixture of the animal centre’s reception desk. Shelter’s branch administrator Less Burrows said:

“He is much more comfortable. Previously his eyes were shut, now they are open. We always used Ernest to test new dogs brought into us to see if they were scared of cats because he was never fazed. He is much more wary of the dogs now because he can actually see them.”

Long live Ernest; do enjoy a healthy life and your renewed vision!

Segnala presso:

To top it, diabetic drugs are usually responsible for the patients to put on that extra weight adding the risk of high BP, heart problems and even strokes. Thus it is very improtant that the drugs used for diabetes treatment function in such a way that besides controlling the sugar level, the drug must reduce weight.

Byetta, the new inject able drug according to the experts, is the right answer. It’s made from the saliva of the Gila monster, a venomous lizard usually found in Southwest America. The new wander drug approved by FDA is suitable only for type 2 diabetics.

Byetta works in three ways: it signals the body to make correct amount of insulin post meal; prevents the liver from making extra glucose; it controls the appetite and slows the rate of glucose leaving the stomach.

Segnala presso: