Healthy body
There are many things that you can do to improve your health whether you are young or old, healthy or suffering from chronic diseases. Most people want to feel well, to be happy, to be fulfilled in their lives, to be free of disease as far as possible, to cope well with illness when it occurs, to live long, to live well and to die at peace. The medical practice exists to help you in any or all of these areas at various times in your life. Below we offer some areas relating especially to physical health, health of the body - bearing in my that this will affect others aspects of health too.
Top health tips
Top health tips that the latest evidence suggests that you can do to maintain good health.
Self-help for minor illness
A lot of minor illness is self-limiting and either needs no treatment or can be managed yourself with some simple medications or other remedies. Our minor illness web page has advice and otherwise take a look at the NHS Direct Self-help guide.
Self-help for chronic disease
Food for health
It has been said 'we are what we eat'. It is also true that we 'eat to live' and not only to live but to live well. By making good dietary choices, combined with regular exercise and no smoking, it is possible to add years to life and to reduce the chance of heart disease or cancer. On the other hand, by making poor dietary choices - perhaps influenced by the power of advertising and the availability of high salt/fat/calorie fast foods in a fast-paced life - we expose ourselves to the risk of obesity, heart disease, some cancers, diabetes and numerous other health problems.
From a global perspective we face a world with both extremes - widespread poverty and malnutrition but also an epidemic of obesity: all problems that have the potential to be solved with the right political vision and will as well as personal responsibility.
SALT - is your food full of it? See this Food Standards Agency web site to understand about the dangers of salt in the diet and how to eat less than the upper limit recommended of 6g per day. Also find out about how to convert sodium content to salt content (= x2.5). The Blood Pressure association also has a good section on salt and health. Also see the campaigning group CASH.