Eat less meat to save lives
BRITONS should significantly reduce the amount of meat they eat in order to save thousands of lives writes Daniel Martin, the Health Reporter at the Daily Express.
Sir Liam Donaldson said that if the country cut its meat consumption by 30 per cent 18,000 premature deaths from heart disease would be avoided each year, and the resulting fall in the number of sick people would mean ten of thousands of extra “healthy life years”.
In his annual report, he said Britain has a duty to act to reduce the threat of climate change, because our diet is “warming the planet”. His comments come a few months after climate change Guru, Lord Stern called on people to go vegetarian, because methane emissions from cows and pigs were warming the atmosphere.
A new survey said Brits are the fattest people in Europe with one in four clinically obese. The cost to the nation of treating couch potatoes is ฃ3.5 billion a year and it will rise as we get heavier, but live longer experts have said.
A year long study has begun at the University of Nottingham to get to the bottom of the crisis. Dr. Anne Kouvonen of the university said “The recent increase cannot be explained by genetics.”

Coffee can halve your dementia risk
HIGH caffeine intake may halve the risk of mental declines associated with dementia according to a study at the University of Porto. Researchers tracked 600 people over the age of 65 and followed 60 per cent of them for a decade. Result showed that those who drank the most coffee had a 51 per cent lower risk of mental decline that those who drank the least.

Are married men living longer?
MARRIED men have a better chance of living longer because their wives persuade them to see a doctor according to a new study. Social scientists found husbands were six per cent more likely to have a check up than bachelors. But there were no difference between single and married women. The research in Germany also showed married men and women tend to exercise more.

Waiting in Airports
THE AVERAGE traveller spends nearly 16 days waiting in airports during their lifetime, research showed last week. The value of time wasted is more than ฃ870 per person over 50 years. As a nation Britain’s spend a total of 15.773 years in delays and queues at check in desks, spending ฃ319 million while waiting for flights. The holiday company behind the research said extra security measures were increasing wait times.

Boom in Busts
BOOB jobs are defying the slump reveals Brit surgeons, they are performing more than ever. A total of 2.055 were racked up last year by experts working for the Hospital Group which specialises in private cosmetic ops. Medical Director, Mario Russo, said women are flocking to copy celebs such as Victoria Beckham which has boosted demand by 52 per cent in five years. He added “Surgery is no longer restricted to the rich and famous.”

French Letters
INTINATE letters written by Napoleon’s lover Josephine have sold for a total of ฃ630.000 at auction. The 50 notes shed new light on the pint-sized French Emperor, famed for supposedly telling the woman he later married “Not to night Josephine.” One of the notes said” My husband does not love me, he adores me I believe he will go mad.” Auctioneers in Fontainebleau near Paris said Brits were among the collectors who bought the letters.”

Monte Carlo the most expensive place for hotels
MONTE CARLO is the world’s most expensive place for hotel accommodation a survey revealed last week. Average room rates at the Monaco resort, famed for its casinos and yachts, bucked the recession to rise to ฃ172 per night. However, Moscow prices fell 27 per cent to ฃ167, next came Abu Dhabi on ฃ159, New York ฃ149, and Geneva ฃ 144. Rates world wide fell an average 14 per cent, but rose sharply in Istanbul as Turkey became more popular with Brits.
Cheapest city according to hotels com was Riga at ฃ55, Orlando at ฃ57, Las Vegas ฃ60 and Prague ฃ65.

Englishwoman fall down European Health Ladder
LOW CANCER detection rates, binge drinking and bad eating habits have put England near the bottom of Europe’s league tables for women’s health. The annual Health Profile of England released by the Department of Health shows that the average live expectancy for women is nearly 82 years. But ia comparison table of 27 European nations, England ranked only 16th behind Malta, Greece and Ireland slipping from last year’s position of 14th. At the top of the table is France with 85 years, then follows Spain with under 84 years.
Experts believe that English women’s lower life expectancy is due to the NHS failing in cancer detection and heart disease as well as poor diet. Premature death from cancer among women under 65 is 62.9 per 100.000, far higher than the EU average.
Meanwhile teenage pregnancy rates are the highest in Western Europe and obesity levels are the worst in the continent.
News that Scientists have created prostate cancer in the lab by genetically altering human stem cells is a move expected to boost research efforts to combat the cancer disease which affects about 35.000 men each year in Britain, and causes 10.000 deaths. The work by a US team led by Dr, Owen Witte at the University of California is likely to assist in the fine-tuning of new anticancer drugs.

Smiles Better
ALWAYS looking on the bright side of life can cut your risk of having a heart attack by half. Happy people are much less likely to fall victim to Britain’s biggest killer, misery-guts, according to a study at the Columbia University Medical Centre in New York.

Women’s memory is best
MIDDLE-AGED women have better memories than men, a study claims. Researchers at the University of London examined 9.600 people in their 50s and found that the women out scored men in two tests. Participants in the first test listened to 10 words and were given two minutes to recall as many as possible.
The second test required them to list the same 10 words about five minutes later. Women scored almost five per cent more than men in the first test and nearly eight per cent more in the second. In another test which involved naming as many animals as possible in one minute, men and women had identical scores; each could name 22 on average. NON-smokers including ex-smokers also outscored smokers in the first “word recall” tests. Those tested were all members of the National Child Development Study who have been tracked by researchers since their birth in 1958,