The AnswerBank Articles

Going to a place of worship makes you healthy!

By Merill Haseen GOING to church or other places of worship regularly may be going out of fashion, but it's very good for you physically, as well as spiritually. American scientists have looked at00:00 Mon 19th Feb 2001

Indepth answer to Ollie's call for a cold cure

By Merill Haseen IF YOU get two or more colds a year, it could be because your immune system is weak. So the best way to prevent having colds all winter long is to build up your immune system... Get00:00 Mon 19th Feb 2001

Indepth reply to Penguin's question about arnica

By Merill Haseen SOME complementary remedies have become everyday choices for family health, and arnica is fast becoming one of the best-known and most-used homeopathic remedies in the country. 00:00 Mon 19th Feb 2001

Mobile phone mast fury

By Merill Haseen A COUNCIL in England has started legal proceedings against Orange, because the mobile phone company refused to remove a mobile phone mast from the grounds of a school. Orange placed00:00 Mon 12th Feb 2001

Alarming increase in food poisoning

By Merill Haseen A MAJOR new survey by the Food Standards Agency (FSA) showed that up to five million people in this country are hit by food poisoning every year. Until now, the official number of00:00 Mon 12th Feb 2001

Bog myrtle gets updated

By Merill Haseen YOU'D expect discoveries of ancient healing plants to come from the deepest Amazon or a mountain top in the Himalayas. Bog myrtle, however, which grows only in raised peaty wetlands00:00 Mon 12th Feb 2001

Big babies are brainier

By Merill Haseen IT SEEMS that brains are something you're born with, after all. New research shows that the bigger the baby when it's born, the brainier it is likely to be. Four thousand people who00:00 Mon 05th Feb 2001

British men are the cleanest in Europe

By Merill Haseen BEAUTY consultants are rubbing their well-moisturised hands with glee - the interest in male grooming is at an all-time high. A new study by Datamonitor shows that British men are00:00 Mon 05th Feb 2001

Going up in smoke

By Merill Haseen THE AMOUNT of tobacco smoked in this country has risen for the first time in 25 years. Trade figures show that 107.6 billion cigarettes were smoked last year - that's 6.6 billion00:00 Mon 05th Feb 2001

The best and worst body and soul questions

By Merill Haseen IT'S BEEN an interesting week for questions on Body & Soul. They split neatly into two - the very medical and the really alternative. Starting with the really alternative,00:00 Mon 29th Jan 2001

MMR controversy

By Merill Haseen THE MMR controversy has reared up again. Dr Andrew Wakefield, a consultant in gastroenterology at the Royal Free Hospital in north London, claims that he has identified nearly 17000:00 Mon 29th Jan 2001

The secret in a smile

By Merill Haseen A SMILE can be the key to your future happiness, according to a new US study. Researchers studied photographs of 21-year-old women and were able to predict their success in life for00:00 Mon 29th Jan 2001

Asthma and overweight children

By Merill Haseen A NEW study shows that children have a higher risk of getting asthma if they are overweight. Scientists from King's College, London, studied 15,000 children, aged between four and00:00 Mon 22nd Jan 2001

Economy class syndrome

By Merill Haseen DEEP vein thrombosis (DVT), also known as 'Economy Class Syndrome' can strike anyone who is immobile for long periods of time. It's caused by a blood clot which forms in the leg,00:00 Mon 22nd Jan 2001

Bathing babes

By Merill Haseen BRITAIN'S newest swimming star is nine-month old Eva Davies. She has just swum into the record books as the youngest child ever to be awarded a distance certificate for ten meters00:00 Mon 22nd Jan 2001

Why taking a 'sickie' could a be a thing of the past

By Merill Haseen YOU may have heard the words 'Duvet Day' a lot recently, but they don't refer to a bedlinen sale at Debenhams. Rather, they're a way of reducing stress and rewarding employees. 00:00 Mon 15th Jan 2001

Dodgy docs on the net

By Merill Haseen ARE you looking for information about a medical condition Don't believe everything you read on the net - especially when it comes to life-threatening diseases. There has been a00:00 Mon 15th Jan 2001

70% of Brits forget to eat

By Merill Haseen AS OUR lives get busier and busier, and we have more and more to do, it seems that we're not getting our priorities quite right. In an effort to squeeze a little extra time into the00:00 Mon 15th Jan 2001

The biggest boob

By Merill Haseen WOULD you let your daughter have cosmetic surgery Hitting the news is Jenna Franklin, who has asked for a breast enlargement as a 16th birthday present. For some time now, Jemma00:00 Mon 08th Jan 2001

Do we need daily prayer

By Merill Haseen IS DAILY prayer in schools necessary these days It's a century since a law was passed that made daily collective worship compulsory in schools. The School Standards and00:00 Mon 08th Jan 2001