Health & Wellbeing

When taking herbs to ‘balance blood sugar’, care must be taken. Some herbs often touted for this purpose, such as Gymnema sylvestris and Panax ginseng, lower blood sugar levels by

WHO has warned: Prevention and treatment services for noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) have been severely disrupted since the actual pandemic began. The impact is global, but low-income countries are most affected.

The month of October is pink month. During this month, breast cancer prevention is celebrated all over the world. Regular monitoring and the adoption of healthy living habits are always

Carbs are addictive, there’s no doubt about that. Overcoming a sugar addiction has been likened to giving up heroin – it’s no easy feat. However, here are just some of

The main advantage of non-intubated surgery is to avoid the perioperative morbidity derived from the deleterious effect of general anaesthesia and one-lung ventilation, in addition to the beneficial effects of

September is back and the new school year begins. After being at home for many months, our children used computers and cell phones a lot more than before. It certainly

Depression is not only more common in women; it tends to appear earlier, to last longer and to be recurrent. Why? Depression “includes several types of depressive syndromes,” of which

Insulin resistance is on the rise, and so are people’s waistlines. The ‘obesity epidemic’ is, in fact, an epidemic of diabetes, metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular disease – conditions that put