Tag: Health Check
Health Check: is it bad to regularly sleep wearing earplugs?
“Never put anything smaller than your elbow into your ear” is something we’ve been wisely cautioned against at some stage or another. But more of us are ignoring this advice. We use in-the-ear-headphones to listen to music, car keys and hair pins to
Health Check: can vitamins supplement a poor diet?
Vitamins and minerals are essential for keeping us in good health. While eating a varied diet should give us all the nutrients we need, recent diet and health surveys show the typical Australian diet is far from varied – or even close to what is cons
Health Check: does green mucus mean you’re infectious and need antibiotics?
When you have a cold or other respiratory illness, you might see a range of different colours of mucus or snot when you blow your nose. We’re often told – even by doctors – that green or yellow secretions indicate you’re infectious. But this isn’t tr
