Christian Stanton added an entry about lose weight : I’m so sick of being fat! I’ve been trying to lose weight for long long but I always just give up and then gain a billion pounds. This time around I AM going to lose weight and I am NOT going to give up! I guess I really just have to decide if I’m going to go on a diet or just try to cut some stuff out and eat more healthily.

'Salvage radiotherapy' - radiation treatment for relapses of prostate cancer - significantly raises survival rates, a study published yesterday suggests.

The NHS is at risk of collapsing because of the fast-rising number of patients with dementia, leading scientists warned yesterday.

Giving statins to pregnant women could save thousands every year from needing a caesarean, research suggests. It is thought the cholesterol-busting drugs make it easier for the womb to contract.

Nurses are to be scored on their compassion and kindness to patients patients as part of a new drive to improve the NHS.

Affluent women in the South are more likely to die from breast cancer than those with more disadvantaged lifestyles, a study has found.

A man has fought off advanced skin cancer after being treated with clones of his own immune cells.

A teenager who was born with a withered leg has walked unaided for the first time after doctors spent 19 years lengthening his limb.

As promised, here's the first lunch in Daddy Shmoo's new bento box . A grilled portabello mushroom fish with baby cucumber scales and snow pea eyes is set adrift on a bed of somen noodles with blanched snow peas and parsley "seaweed".

A new mass spectrometry test can help sports anti-drug doping officials to detect whether an athlete has used drugs that boost naturally occurring steroid levels. The test is more sensitive compared to previous alternatives, more capable of revealing specific suspicious chemical in the body, faster to perform, and could be run on standard drug-screening laboratory equipment.

People with type 2 diabetes and morbid obesity who had laparoscopic gastric bypass surgery were significantly better able to get their blood glucose to normal levels than those who were treated with conventional medical treatment including insulin, according to a new study presented here at the 25th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Metabolic & Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS).

Losing less than half of their excess weight within a year was enough to resolve or dramatically improve type 2 diabetes, hypertension, high cholesterol, and sleep apnea, according to a new study of gastric band patients presented here at the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS) Annual meeting.

A new study from Australia suggests that when given a placebo that they believe to be a performance-enhancing drug, some athletes, especially if they are male, not only believe their performance improves, but actually show real measured improvements in performance, lending support to the idea that "mind over matter", or the power of the mind, plays an important role in the development of athletic prowess.

Have you noticed how many products have Omega 3 added? Omega 3 is the new health food buzzword - but have we been mislead by marketing hype? Lois Smithers has written a fascinating exposé showing how confusing labeling of Omega 3 foods is undermining our health. ...

Let me start off by saying this. You'll never catch me within 50 feet of a McDonalds. Seriously, I get queasy just driving by fast food joints, but for those of you hooked on the Ronald. Good news! Arguably the one healthy thing on the menu is back. Tomatoes have returned....

If athletes believe they are using a performance-enhancing drug, they may think their athletic performance improves, and in some men it can, even if they are actually taking a dummy drug, a new study has found. Results of the study were presented at The Endocrine Society's 90th Annual Meeting in San Francisco.

On your marks, get set … go to lane 1?Researchers at the University of Alberta in Edmonton studying the connection between loud sounds and reaction time are reporting findings that may have sprinters thinking twice about lane assignments at the upcoming Olympics.

After studying current research, the American Medical Association (AMA) today concluded that high fructose syrup does not appear to contribute more to obesity than other caloric sweeteners, but called for further independent research to be done on the health effects of high fructose syrup and other sweeteners.

A Finnish study of identical twins has found that physical inactivity and acquired obesity can impair expression of the genes which help the cells produce energy. The findings suggest that lifestyle, more than heredity, contributes to insulin resistance in people who are obese. Insulin resistance increases the chance of developing diabetes and heart disease.

France joins the fashion fight against using "dangerously thin" models? Add France on to the distinguished list of countries joining the worldwide drive to fight anorexia. Other countries, including Italy and Great Britain, have already taken measures to fight the promotion of excessively skinny top models. But Spain remains the country that has put the most money where their mouth is by banning models from their fashion shows whose bodies were under the BMI of 18.