Harry Potter novels and films have been praised by a church in Kent as a way of promoting Christian values.
A youth worker at St Margaret’s Church in Rainham has created a guide to help young people learn more about morals through the JK Rowling stories.
Nicotine and the toxic substances found in cigarette smoke have a huge impact on the detoxification process of the body.
- Smoking causes cell damage, which leads to diseases such as cancer, high cholesterol levels, coronary and circulatory problems, respiratory disorders and an increased risk of osteoporosis.
- Smoking drains the body of many essential vitamins and minerals, affecting your ability to absorb these vital nutrients.
The basic aim of diabetes treatment is to keep blood glucose as normal as possible. This is achieved in two main ways:
- a combination of a healthy diet and exercise.
- medication with tablets or insulin.
Lifestyle change for life
To lose weight and to keep it off, it is vital that you are motivated, really want to lose weight, and want to improve aspects of your lifestyle. Some people lose weight by strict dieting for a short period. However, as soon as the diet is over, they often go back to their old eating habits, and the weight goes straight back on. Losing weight, and then keeping it off, needs a whole change of attitude and lifestyle for life.
Two billion live rats are being taken across China so they can end up on the tables of some of the country’s more exotic restaurants.
Parts of Hunan Province are being plagued by rodents which were displaced when a lake was enlarged – and some enterprising people are being offered cash for the rats – which have to be alive.
Pagans have pledged to perform “rain magic” to wash away a cartoon character painted next to their famous fertility symbol – the Cerne Abbas giant.
A doughnut-brandishing Homer Simpson was painted next to the giant on the hill above Cerne Abbas, Dorset, to promote the new Simpsons film.
Kenyan donkey owner struggling to tie a nappy on his donkey
Donkey owners in the Kenyan town of Limuru are up in arms over an order from the municipal authorities that their animals must wear nappies.
The council said the measure would come into effect on 16 July to ensure the town’s streets are kept clean.
People with diabetes are more likely to spend longer in intensive care and pick up an infection after an accident than those without, a US study suggests.
Researchers at the Penn State College of Medicine looked at nearly 26,000 patients who were hospitalised after trauma injuries between 1984 and 2002.
Those with diabetes were nearly twice as likely to pick up an infection and spent two days longer on a ventilator.
From calories to protein to vitamins, all the information you need to know about your favorite packaged foods is right on the Food Label.
You see them all the time, but do you know how to read them … or what the information means?
The information that has the most to do with weight management is located at the top: Serving sizes, calories and total fat. Serving size is the key.
Once you know a given serving size (and abide by it!) you can easily track your calorie and/or fat intake to lose weight.
Other diets may require you to track your carbohydrate and protein intake, which can also easily be identified.
Health-related data such as saturated fat and cholesterol content can be found, too.
Ulcers are breaks in the layers of the skin that fail to heal. They may be accompanied by inflammation.
Sometimes they don’t heal and become chronic. Chronic foot and leg ulcers mainly affect the elderly.
People with diabetes are at special risk of developing foot ulcers, and foot care is an important part of diabetes management.
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