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Stay seated
THERE are still February days when it is more inviting to remain indoors than venture outside. But that’s no reason not to enjoy simple chair exercises that will ensure muscles and bones remain strong, reduce pain resulting from arthritis and assist in controlling blood pressure.
Begin with ankle rolls, before continuing with seated marching accompanied by some vigorous armswinging. Finish by stretching the chest muscles five or six times.
Linda Hall
LEEDS UNIVERSITY investigators concluded that more protein, plus regular tea or coffee, could reduce hip fracture in women.
An extra 25 grammes of protein a day reduced the risk by 14 per cent, they found, but unexpectedly discovered that each additional cup of tea or coffee slashed it by a further 4 per cent.
“This is interesting, given that tea and coffee are the UK’s favourite drinks,” said Professor Janet Cade, who
RESEARCH that was carried out on behalf of Rescue Remedy has identified the most stressful time of the day for Britons.
Answers provided by 2,000 adults in the UK were averaged out, arriving at 7.23am as the most stressful time of their day.
The same survey found that the top causes of stress included tiredness, mentioned by 46 per cent of participants, followed by an interrupted night’s sleep (36 per cent) and a busy day at work (33 per cent).
A BROKEN heart is usually understood as a figure of speech that describes the grief when a relationship ends.
That very misery can in fact trigger cardiac issues, according to the NHS, since “broken heart syndrome”known to the medical profession as takotsubo cardiomyopathy occurs when the heart suddenly becomes supervised the Leeds research.
“It might be promoting the amount of calcium present in our bones,” she suggested.
Not a solution
CALAMINE lotion, an oldfashioned but effective treatment for chicken pox in children, is hard to find at present.
The culprit is a TikTok influencer who recommended using it as a makeup base for skins prone to spottiness.
