If you are feeling under the weather, just stick out your tongue - the state it's in can present an accurate picture of your health. The colour, texture and moisture of your tongue can provide ...

January can make even the most energetic of us feel down in the dumps. Cold, dreary weather, lack of sleep and too much food and drink leave us feeling sluggish and overweight. Here we provide you ...

Wine drinkers have never had it so good. Not only does a glass or two, or even three, taste rather good, it's remarkably healthy, too, protecting against a whole range of diseases. Cancer, heart ...

Dr Robert Atkins - whose diet is followed by three million Britons - had a serious heart disease and was a clinically obese 18-and-a-half stone when he died, a report revealed yesterday. The 72 ...

According to nutritionists, small amounts of salt on a daily basis is essential for the functioning of healthy cells. Sodium - better known as salt - maintains the correct balance of certain ...

They spend much of the year hidden away. So it's hardly surprising that most of us are unaware of how our feet can provide important clues to the state of our health. Three out of four adults ...

A record number of male nurses are working in British hospitals. Latest figures show more than one in ten nurses are men, compared with one in a hundred in the earliest days of the NHS more than ...

The uterus or womb reflex lies on the outside of your wrist right at the top, just below your thumb. Because this area is quite delicate, press this 'reflex'; with the middle finger of your other ...

A grieving father told yesterday how his daughter died after taking too many paracetamol tablets in an attempt to ease her pain following dental treatment. Teenager Toni Gowland swallowed up to 56 ...

There are a number of common misconceptions surrounding epilepsy and people often think of it as a mental disorder. In fact, it is a physical neurological condition that does not affect the person ...

There are so many different types of products on offer - and some are more appropriate for minor illnesses than others. Here, pharmacist Brian Duggan advises the best painkiller for a range of ...