Type 2 Diabetes
Type 2 diabetes is a very common condition which causes a person’s blood glucose levels to become elevated. People whose insulin is less effective than normal, but who can still make it to a certain extent, are given the diagnosis…
The Student’s Guide to Nutrition
Many students find that they gain weight when they first start at university, and that’s no surprise. You’re suddenly given access to an unbelievable number of campus sundae bars, instant noodles, late-night food deliveries and buffet-style dining halls. One nutritional…
5 Celebs who suffer with a Diagnosed Mental Illness
This is a guest blog post by Imprint Manager of Need2Know Books Shelley Goffe-Caldeira Mental Health Awareness Week in the UK is a great starting point to get the public talking about mental illness. The issue of mental health has…
What is Bipolar Disorder
Bipolar is a mental health condition which has an impact on your mood, and can cause your mood to swing between two extremes. In the past, it was referred to as “manic depression”. This was the phrase used to describe…
The Health And Fitness Benefits Of Lifting Weights
If you’ve ever been to a gym, you know the guy I’m about to talk about. The guy that wears that weird tank top. He screams every time he lifts a weight, and you’re sure that vein in his head…
Things You Might Not Know About Asperger Syndrome
#Autismawareness #Aspergerssyndrome #Aspergers In the 1980s, British psychiatrist Lorna Wing developed and introduced the concept of Asperger syndrome. The condition is named after an Austrian paediatrician named Hans Asperger, who studied and wrote about children who exhibited the condition in…
Maintaining a Gluten free diet
You love to eat bread, cake, pasta and well frankly…most foods, but after many years of feeling bloated and getting uncontrollable gas after indulging in your favourites you begin to realise that your body seems to have a problem with…
Is Coeliac Disease Something You Can Grow Out Of?
One common myth surrounding coeliac disease is that it’s something you can simply outgrow. Unfortunately, it’s not true. You will have the condition for life following diagnosis (assuming that your diagnosis is correct). The idea that children can outgrow coeliac…
3 Famous Celebs who suffer from Multiple Sclerosis: How disability looks different in 2019
What is Multiple Sclerosis What do Montel Williams, Jack Osborne and Selma Blair have in common? All three celebrities have been diagnosed and suffer with Multiple Sclerosis. Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an often disabling disease of the central nervous system.…
Life With Testicular Cancer: Chemotherapy
Chemotherapy is the name given to a type of cancer treatment which kills cancer cells through the use of medication. There are lots of different chemotherapy drugs available, but the way they work is generally the same or similar. They…