In my opinion it is one of the worst things to promote on a tablet. You have a smartphone that dopes video calling so why the heck do you want another expensive contract tied to your tablet pc and get charged even more for video calling? It’s pants!

I own an iPhone and I would definitely not want to pay another £30 a month for an Android tablet that can video call! It’s crazy!!

What do you make of this? Do you agree with me or are you one of those Android fanboys who who will not accept any criticism!!

A group of researchers at Cardiff University have suggested that newly qualified young drivers should be banned from night-time driving and carrying passengers that are of a similar age.

It is believed by the researchers that new drivers aged between 17 and 24 who are restricted from driving at certain times could save more than 200 lives and result in less than 1700 serious injuries each year. Schemes like this one have already been brought in in New Zealand, Australia and some areas of America.

It is unlikely the recommendations will come into effect however as motoring organisations say the limits would be difficult to enforce.

In recent news it was revealed that car parking charges for hospitals in England are to remain in place. The new coalition government has announced that this will remain in place even though the previous Labour government said they wanted to make parking free. Apparently though there are better uses of public money than scrapping car parking charges. It seems stupid that they wouldn’t consider this option though when parking is free at most hospitals in Northern Ireland, Wales AND Scotland. Yet another let down for the English part of the British Isles. The word “greed” seems to come into it, in my opinion.

People who were still developing in the womb during the World War II famine in the Netherlands performed worse than other people of similar age at mental tests almost 60 years later. Scientists who were writing in the PNAS journal said the 1944 Dutch famine could have accelerated brain ageing. The study was focused on 300 adults who were in the womb at the time of the famine. Experts in the UK have said that even severe morning sickness was unlikely to cause the malnutrition on a similar level.

The “Hongerwinter” was a 6 month period during which food deliveries to the northern Netherlands were restricted by German occupying soldiers. The outcome of this was a humanitarian nightmare. A group of almost 300 adults in their late 50s, all of whom had been exposed to the famine were given mental tests, and the results compared to those of similarly aged people. It was concluded that the people exposed to the famine performed better on the mental tests – an interesting result. There may be many reasons for this but it does provide an interesting theory.

In a recent discovery it has been found that exposure to chemicals that are found in non-stick frying pans could raise the cholesterol levels in children. Scientists do have a link but no proof, and further research will be needed to rule it out. From the study of over 12,000 children experts stressed that the children’s exposure was much higher than typical.

In day to day life most people are exposed to the man-made perfluoroalkyl acid chemicals because they are used commonly in manufacturing. The acids give non-stick pan a heat resistance and are also found in commercial food packaging and many other things. The experts leading the study are aware that the chemicals can get into the body and go through the liver (which is responsible for making cholesterol and handling fat.

A recent study has found that people who do puzzles and crosswords may hold off dementia for longer but experience a more rapid decline once the disease sets in. There has long been speculation that “exercising” your brain using brain training methods could protect against Alzheimer’s, but there has been hardly any evidence to back this up.

The research team were from the Rush University Medical Center in Chicago and they recruited 1,157 people aged over 65 in the early 1990s.

The study has come out with a conclusion that doing puzzles and crosswords does delay dementia, but can increase the disease once it has set in.

A relatively new idea (at least in the Western world) that is gaining popularity in the UK is Baby (or infant) Massage. This involves tactile rubbing simulation as a way of developing the child’s physical and mental development. Although it has been prevalent in the sub-continent and China for centuries, baby massage is only just starting to glean interest from new parents in this part of the world.

As a new parent myself, I was eager to find out more about the idea of baby massage and was annoyed to find that there were only a very few NHS clinics that ran this service. I was eager to try out anything that may aid in the development of junior and hope to find a private company or consultant that may teach this potentially invaluable skill. So I will be keeping an eye out in my part of the world (Manchester / Cheshire)!

UPDATE: I have found one! Baby massage in Manchester and Cheshire

Food allergies are common among adults and children and below I have given you some information you may not know.

Around 1 of 5 people in the UK have a food allergy but they may not all know about them.

Symptoms of food allergies can include:
Skin Reactions
Upset stomach (diarrhea, vomiting)
breathing difficulties
Swelling of eyes

Some people can outgrow their food allergy but more often than not you don’t and have to find a way of living with this even though that may be harder done than said.

If you think you may be allergic to a form of food go to see your doctors who can diagnose correctly and let you know how to deal with this.

I recently took the course to be the first aider at my work place and it was a lot harder than i thought it would be.

This course is aimed to give you training on what to do if there is an emergency at your workplace but this can also be used in your every day life as well.

The course takes 3 days to complete and you have a practical test at the end of the 3rd day, i was petrified at having to do a practical test but it was not that bad and i passed with flying colours.

I would recommend this course even if you are not the chosen 1st aider as it is a good skill to have.

People being admitted to Hospital for weight loss surgery shot up by 55% last year from 5000 people in 2007-2008 to almost 8000 people in 2008-2009.

There are lots of health risks from putting on weight eg, type 2 diabetes, hear disease so you can see why the NHS are not too happy about this because not only are they having to perform weight loss surgery (eg stapeling, gastric band) but they are now having to deal with all the other problems people are getting.

I am not sure how this can be as there is currently a credit crunch but hey what do i know.

Not many people have a good excuse to be fat so i dont feel sorry for all of them.