If you're eating out at a restaurant or cafe, you can make choices to ensure that your meal is healthy and balanced. It's all too easy to have more saturated fat, salt and sugar than you realise when you're not cooking your own meal.
A new report Case Study of a Health Crisis finds there has been an alarming rise in new farm superbugs, especially MRSA and E. coli that are passing to humans. The report links this rise to the fact that nearly 50% of all antibiotics are used in farming and argues that one of the fundamental causes of food and animal-related antibiotic resistance is factory farming.
Sometimes the odd drink or night out can become more than a special occasion - with many people starting to consider the amount of alcohol they consume on a weekly basis. Once you have discovered how much you are drinking and if you decide to cut down, you may find you need a little help and advice on how to do it.
We're supposed to be keeping an eye on how much we drink, but how many of us really know what a unit of alcohol is? With so many different drinks and glass sizes, from shots to pints - not to mention bottles - it's easy to get confused about how many units are in your drink.
Alcohol Concern is urging drinkers to be more aware of the potential risks of mixing alcohol with energy drinks. In its new briefing paper Mixed Messages the charity highlights the possible dangers of mixing highly caffeinated drinks with alcohol.
Most people who have alcohol-related health problems aren't alcoholics. They're simply people who have regularly drunk more than the recommended levels for some years. There's no guaranteed safe level of drinking, but if you drink below recommended daily limits, the risks of harming your health are low.
