5 entries found with tag health.

How to prevent eye strain and RSI

If you spend a lot of the time in front of a computer screen, you might appreciate a little piece of software called WorkRave. It's a free, timer-based app that works out when you need to take a break and also suggests exercises you can do to reduce any eye/muscle strain and generally relax a bit!

Tags: health, RSI, eye

[15:51][comments 1]

Home birth safety

The midwife is stuck in traffic! Here's a recording of a 999 call made by a very calm man at home with his wife who is about to give birth. (Is it me or does the woman on the phone sound a bit like Big Brother's Jade Goody?

Related: health, pregnancy

[14:30][remarks 1]

How to cure a sore throat

I'm not a doctor, so I'm not sure if I believe it, but this guy claims that gargling with cayenne powder instantly heals a sore thoat. Worth a try I suppose!

Drinking tea is good for you

This really cheeses me off! For ages now I've made a conscious effort not to drink tea thinking water was better for me... I've been conned!

Tags: health

Always Coca-Cola

The mega marketing machine that is the Coca-Cola advertising department always goes into overdrive at Christmas. People drink it, and that's great... Until perhaps they find out what Coke actually does to the human body.

Related: Coke, health