Vaping alert

VAPING does not help young smokers break the habit, a survey of UK 1,000 teenagers revealed.

US researchers analysing the data discovered that frequent smoking ‐ more than six cigarettes a week ‐was higher in those who began vaping before they were 15.

outweighed by its sugar and calorie content,” he added.

Youngsters who smoked and vaped were twice as likely to smoke heavily by the time they left school than their peers who used tobacco, the investigators found.

Food for thought

DOCTORS believe that the food a woman eats can in‐fluence the onset on the menopause.

A 2018 Leeds University study found that women who ate a daily 90 grammes of oily fish like mackerel or trout experienced the menopause nearly three and a half years later than the UK’s average age of 51.

In contrast, those with a diet of refined foods, in‐cluding pasta and rice, went through the menopause around one and a half years earlier, the investigators said.