Excessive sitting and a sedentary behaviour, not just low physical activity levels, may become the new ‘health hazard of our time’, research published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine has warned.
Hot on the heels of recent research suggesting the current recommended maximum sodium intake for the population is actually too low and may even be unsafe, a new paper has found that high dietary salt intake may worsen multiple sclerosis (MS) symptoms and boost the risk of further neurological deterioration.
Plain packs for tobacco products don’t hurt small retailers, flood the market with very cheap cigarettes, or boost the trade in illicit tobacco, finds research on the early experience of the policy in Australia, and published in the online journal BMJ Open.
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More than half of all older Irish adults prescribed medications that have the potential to interact with alcohol still regularly consume alcohol during the course of their prescription, a new study from the RCSI’s School of Pharmacy has found.
Unhealthy foods, such as sugary snacks and sweets, accounted for nearly half of all food-specific placements in kids’ TV programmes on RTÉ and the BBC, with sugar-sweetened drinks accounting for a quarter of all beverage-specific cues, researchers from Limerick have found.
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