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Abuse
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Diet and nutrition
What you eat shapes your health. Discover how to build a balanced diet, understand food labels, and make choices that support your wellbeing.
- Mindful eating: how to slow down and enjoy your food
- How healthy is flavoured water?
- Wie Sie Ihren Vitamin-D-Spiegel in diesem Winter erhöhen können
- What causes extremely smelly farts?
- What are the health benefits of spicy food?
- Is kombucha good for you?
- How a protein-packed breakfast can boost your health
- Can red yeast rice lower your cholesterol?
- The best gut health foods - and why you need them
- How to get vitamin-ready for autumn and winter
- How to avoid iron deficiency
- Pflanzliche Proteine könnten helfen, Bluthochdruck zu verhindern
- Beyond the grape: uncorking the health facts about resveratrol
- 10 sources of plant-based protein for bone health
- How to handle smelly farts, loud burps and bad breath
- How much protein do you need to build muscle?
- Könnte Ihre Ernährung Ihr bestes Anti-Aging-Geheimnis sein?
- Are juice cleanses good for you?
- A hybrid approach to eating: your guide to the pegan diet
- The Reducetarian diet: how to eat less meat
- 7 eisenhaltige Lebensmittel, die Sie in Ihre Ernährung aufnehmen sollten
- Is mushroom coffee really good for you?
- What is the Ornish diet and can it transform your health?
- Why am I farting so much?
- What is the BRAT diet and why is it unsafe?
- Do gummy vitamins work?
- The 5 best probiotic foods for a healthy gut
- Was ist die koreanische Diät?
- What is the Eatwell Guide? A balanced diet explained
- Is a dairy-free diet healthy?
- How diet can reduce your risk of stroke and heart attack
- How your diet affects your heart
- Ist die Einnahme von Probiotika für jeden sicher?
- Biotin: do vitamins for hair growth really work?
- What are the pros and cons of taking supplements?
- Hilft Aloe-Vera-Saft wirklich bei der Darmgesundheit?
- Fibre, low FODMAP diet and gut bacteria
- What are the benefits of vitamin A?
- Feeding your good bacteria with probiotics and prebiotic supplements
- What is your gut microbiome?
- Do ZMA supplements really work?
- What is the benefit of vitamin E?
- Was ist die nordische Ernährung?
- Why do I have extreme tiredness after eating?
- Flax seeds: a secret weapon for women's health?
- Can collagen supplements boost your health?
- Are pumpkin seeds good for you?
Umweltbedingungen
Extreme weather, pollution, and other environmental factors can affect your health. Learn how to protect yourself and manage the risks around you.
- Luftverschmutzung und Asthma: Wie man sich in diesem Sommer schützen kann
- Protecting your skin from harmful pollution
- The effect of air pollution on asthma sufferers
- Festival abroad? Have fun and stay safe
- Wie sich die Luftverschmutzung auf Ihre Gesundheit auswirkt
- Welcher Zusammenhang besteht zwischen Haarrelaxantien und Fibromen?
- 5 benefits of bees for your health
- How to stay warm this winter
- How to stay healthy at a music festival
- Kann kaltes Wetter krank machen? Und andere Wintermythen
- What are EDCs and why should you worry about them?
- How to cope in the outdoors with a heatwave
- Wie man bei Hitze besser schläft
- How to stay cool indoors this summer
- Plastic free July: should we be worried about microplastics?
- Do Blue Zones hold the secrets to a longer life?
- Microplastics in drinking water not an urgent health risk
- Air pollution speeds up ageing in the lungs
- New Year Resolutions: how to make environmentally friendly lifestyle changes
- Why 'Christmas creep' stresses us out
- Essential steps to take to avoid falls this winter
- Kann eine Zentralheizung gesundheitliche Probleme verursachen?
- Handy tips to reduce your food waste
- What are the health benefits of houseplants?
- Air pollution blamed for a third of new asthma cases in Europe
- Air pollution in major cities for lungs is as bad as smoking 20 cigarettes a day
- Air pollution linked to mental health problems
- Why is air pollution so dangerous for your lungs?
- Could the energy crisis fuel a mental health emergency?
- Hay fever: How to cope with a 'pollen bomb'
- How to drink more water and stay hydrated at a festival
- How to help your baby sleep safely in hot weather
- What's the health impact of pesticides?
- What is fuel poverty and how does it affect our health?
- How does climate change affect mental health?
- Are pesticides harmful to humans?
- What's a permacrisis, and its impact on our mental health?
- Is plastic affecting our health?
- Festival health essentials
Healthcare
Good healthcare is about prevention, early detection, and treatment. Discover how to get the most from your health services and understand your care options.
- How social media helps you stay connected to your GP Practice or Pharmacy
- Was ist ein Angemessenheitsvermerk und wann braucht man ihn?
- Kann Ihr Apotheker Ihnen bei Ihrer sexuellen Gesundheit helfen?
- Health checks you can do at home
- Wie Sie sich in diesem Winter um Ihre geistige Gesundheit kümmern können
- How to ease worry when waiting for medical test results
- What does an osteopath do?
- Was sind die Hauptursachen für Krankenhauseinweisungen über Weihnachten?
- Is there an LGBTQ+ health gap?
- What is peer support and how can it help you?
- Why you shouldn't skip your free NHS health check
- Clinical trials - helping to keep your medicines safe.
- Symptoms you need to stop hiding from your doctor
- Wie Sie Ihren Hausarzttermin optimal nutzen können
- Cost of living crisis: is our health paying the price?
- Was Sie über das Absetzen von Medikamenten wissen müssen
- Funktioniert die Selbstdiagnose und wo liegen die Gefahren?
- How can technology help us manage health conditions?
- Why do transgender people struggle to get cervical screening?
- Study of homeopathy clinical trials reveals poor research practice
- Gesundheitsprobleme, wegen denen Sie nicht zum Arzt gehen müssen
- What is social prescribing - and can it improve your health?
- Will Brexit affect my travel insurance?
- Is retail therapy actually a thing?
- How to choose the right GP for you
- Calculating absolute risk and relative risk
- Wie trägt die Technologie dazu bei, dass Patienten ihre Gesundheit selbst in die Hand nehmen können?
- What it's like to work in mental health services when you have a mental illness
- What happens when medicines interact
- How your height affects your health
- Which medical conditions affect your driving?
- What to do if you're worried about a loved one's health
- When do you really need to go to A&E?
- Families urged to talk about organ donation before a loved one dies
- NHS opens walk-in clinics for FGM survivors
- What you need to know before having surgery
- Dental inequality: what is it and why does it exist?
- Why you should talk to your loved ones about organ donation
- Mental health carer checklist
- Are online doctor's appointments the future for healthcare?
- How to get the most out of your remote GP appointment
- How can we self-monitor our health?
- Do mental health apps really work?
- What student health benefits can I get?
- What to pack for a hospital stay
- How remote mental health services have helped the LGBTQ+ community
- What happens when you get sectioned?
- How to have a healthy holiday
- Why do we use dark humour as a coping mechanism?
Fettleibigkeit und Gewichtsabnahme
Carrying extra weight can affect your health. Learn how weight loss supports wellbeing, explore healthy ways to lose weight, and avoid risky quick fixes.
- Understanding internalised weight bias: a guide to self-acceptance
- Jenseits von Diät und Sport: Verständnis für ganzheitliches Gewichtsmanagement
- Kann man abnehmen und dabei seinen Körper positiv gestalten?
- 10 tägliche Gewohnheiten für eine gesunde Gewichtsabnahme
- What are weight loss injections and are they safe?
- Is Pilates good for weight loss?
- What to do if your weight is getting you down
- Why fad diets can actually lead to weight gain
- What your waist measurement says about your health
- Do crash diets ever really work for healthy weight loss?
- Are protein shakes good for weight loss?
- Was ist bariatrische Chirurgie?
- How to talk to your child about their weight
- Probleme, die durch Untergewicht verursacht werden
- Funktionieren Diätpillen wirklich - und sind sie sicher?
- Does BMI matter?
- Can you really be fit and fat?
- Wie Sie Ihren BMI senken und auf gesunde Weise abnehmen
- Size matters: why our oversized portions are contributing to the obesity crisis
- Kann man BMI-Tabellen für Kinder vertrauen?
- Switch off TV in the bedroom to avoid weight gain
- Will the government's obesity strategy work?
- What is gastric sleeve surgery?
- Does eating spicy food help you lose weight?
- Why you don't need to detox
- Orlistat healthy eating guide
- How does losing a lot of weight affect your mental health?
- Do calorie counts on restaurant menus lead to healthier choices?
- The conditions that cause unexpected weight gain
- Does stress cause weight gain?
- Obesity blamed for fewer eligible organ donors
- Fördert kaltes Wetter die Gewichtsabnahme?
- Can you blame your weight on your genes?
- How to choose healthy snacks for you and your kids
- Is your child eating too much sugar?
- Can hypnotherapy help you lose weight?
- The most common reasons you're not losing weight
- Was ist eine kohlenhydratarme Ernährung und ist sie gesund?
Occupational health
Workplace health matters. Learn how employers and healthcare providers help prevent work-related illnesses and support safe, healthy working environments for everyone.
- How menopause can affect women at work
- Will having a child affect my career?
- What health benefits could a four-day working week have?
- How has working from home affected our mental health?
- Gaslighting at work: what it is and how to handle it
- How will not going back to the office affect our health?
- Wie man als Schwarze Frau seine psychische Gesundheit am Arbeitsplatz schützen kann
- How to improve your mental health while working from home
- How to manage your mental health if you've been made redundant
- Why do we feel anxious about calling in sick to work when we are genuinely unwell?
- What can we learn from Britain's healthiest companies?
- Wie wirkt sich das Reizdarmsyndrom auf die Menschen am Arbeitsplatz aus?
- Looking after your mental health when returning to work after maternity leave
- Mental health and work: is it affecting your career?
Preventing disease
Prevention is better than cure. Discover how vaccines, screenings, healthy habits, and lifestyle changes reduce the risk of developing many serious health conditions.