Health

So many times, we focus on foods to avoid in order to have a healthy lifestyle. Nutrition Action Healthletter offers 10 foods to make sure you include on your plate to boost your nutrition...

Maybe you have good muscle tone and you think you are in great shape physically, but are you able to perform your activities of daily living without feeling exhausted at the end of the day? Are you functionally fit? Functional fitness focuses...

Quit smoking - So you have decided you want to stop smoking.Galvanised by great determination and, perhaps a fear of the health risks associated with cigarette smoking, you are now ready. At this point, a salute to all who have successfully quit...

For most of us, leftovers are a great way to save money and still eat healthy.On busy nights, a transformed leftover can make a quick dinner. But there's a catch. Are your leftovers safe? The Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) in the United States...

Dear Dr Campbell-Chambers, I live in Canada and my health is otherwise good except for the fact that I have haemoglobin SC (sickle cell)...

Lifestyle-related problems continue to be the number-one cause of death locally.This is a major cause for concern as the cost of health care spirals upwards and the benefits...

Great Shape! dental sealant programmeGreat Shape! Incorporated, convenors of the world's largest humanitarian dental project, through its continued partnership with the Sandals Foundation, intensified its drive to reduce cavities in Jamaican children by...

As part of your plans for good health and living better in the 50s, you must consider your sexual fitness...

Our children sometimes grow up faster than we expect.We must be knowledgeable about the important transition of puberty when their bodies change from that of a child to that of an adult...

Most of us know we need vitamin D, but new research finds that too much vitamin D can be as unhealthy as not enough...

Since around the late teens up to now, you have been fairly busy doing a lot of things! Some of these include studying, finding a job, changing jobs, working, studying again, having children, taking care of children, managing a relationship, finding a...

The University of Technology (UTech) School of Public Health and Health Technology (SPHHT) has set June 7-10 as the date for the Second International Public Health Conference.