From eating well to finding time for exercise and a social life, here are some tips to survive the [...]

Can ultra-tight-clothing make you a better athlete? Well yes, if the UK’s biggest sportswear brands are to be believed. The sale of compression garments across the webpages of Adidas, Under Armour, Asics and more is almost ubiquitously associated with phrases such as “increase muscle power”, “go further and [...]

The Luxembourg Institute of Health (LIH), a public research centre in biomedicine, has published its activity report for [...]

A comprehensive new study has found 75% of women are not gaining a healthy recommended weight when [...]

A total of 18 people in Luxembourg were euthanised between 2015 and 2016, explains a new report issued by the Commission for Control and Evaluation, regarding the law on euthanasia and assisted suicide in the Grand [...]

When you are shopping for juicy strawberries or fresh greens, you may not stop at the frozen food aisle. Frozen fruit and vegetables often don’t look the part once defrosted, and you may think that the freezing process depletes them of some nutritious value. Nothing is as good for you as fresh – right? On the [...]

I went out to eat last week and gobbled down a steak. Do not judge me: it was medium-rare and delicious. But just before my steak supper, the British Medical Journal published a study of half a million Americans showing that the risk of dying from cancer, heart disease, stroke, diabetes, infections, kidney disease, [...]

According to a new American study, beetroot juice followed by exercise can do much to improve blood flow to aging [...]

According to a review of evidence in the journal Progress in Cardiovascular Disease, runners live three years longer than non-runners. You don’t even have to run fast, or for long, to see a benefit. You can drink, smoke, be overweight and still reduce your risk of dying early by running – by between 25% and 40%. [...]

Trying to lose weight is like giving up smoking: you try, you fail, you try again. But yo-yo dieting has been thought to cause problems. Weight cycling – defined as losing and regaining at least 5lb-10lb per cycle – has been linked to high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes and even cancer. Some research suggests [...]