Red wine is heart-healthy. All things (including alcohol) in moderation. We’ve all seen these headlines, pithily summing up research on why a modest amount of alcohol every day won’t harm, and in fact may help, our cardiac health. But a new study from University of Gothenburg in Sweden suggests

Beer, wine and spirits are fuelling the obesity epidemic and should be labelled with the calories they contain, say public health experts. A large 175ml glass of 13% ABV (alcohol by volume) wine contains 160 calories, a bottle of alcopop contains 170 and a pint of 4% ABV beer contains 180. But the

Lifestyle factors such as a poor diet, smoking and a lack of exercise are more likely to trigger heart attacks than family history, a new study has warned.  Researchers found that heart attacks are not as strongly linked to family history and genetics as previously thought. Their findings will be

The day before I discovered I was pregnant with my son, I’d shared nearly two bottles of red wine with a good friend. It was more than three glasses or six units; I’d thus been binge drinking. As the faint blue line of the white stick deepened in intensity, my mind raced back. Visions of midweek

Every mother hopes for, yet in equal measure dreads, the day her eldest child leaves home to start university. As Kym-Marie Cleasby hugged 20-year-old Bethany goodbye on the doorstep of her new student digs in Southampton, she desperately tried to mask her tears with a smile. These exciting new