In the Forum - Smoking and Exercise
One forum member asks the question: "What I need is some real data or personal experences about smoking while exercising. I already know smoking is bad,...

Seaweed sees off contact lens bugs
Scientists have developed a contact lens specially treated to prevent bacterial infections. Thousands of people a year suffer eye infections due to wearing contact lenses, particularly over extended periods of time

Number of Obese, Smoking Americans Tops 9 Million (HealthDay)
HealthDay - FRIDAY, May 12 (HealthDay News) -- Some nine million Americans suffer from the potentially deadly combination of smoking and obesity, a new analysis of federal data finds.

One cigarette ‘could make you a smoker in later life’
Children who experiment with cigarettes are twice as likely to take up smoking a few years later than those who do not try it at all, new research has found

Do herbal diet pills really work?
Obesity is expected to overtake smoking as the main cause of avoidable deaths in the next decade, according to a recent House of Commons report.