On NOS.nl we saw an interesting article about all the 'miracle remedies' being advised online to people with lower back pain. Very often on Google and through Facebook, bite-sized solutions are offered that are often not nearly as effective as the provider would have you believe. Back pain is one of the most common complaints of the...
Hyperventilation... A medical term for breathing too fast. On average, adults breathe ten times a minute. With hyperventilation, this is more than double. When this happens, too much carbon dioxide disappears from your body and too much oxygen is taken in. In acute hyperventilation, you get short of breath, may feel like you are...
Have you already booked a summer holiday? You are certainly not the only one. Together with you, millions of other Dutch people will head out into the wide world in the coming weeks! Many people prefer to leave exercise and being active at home and focus mainly on delicious food, cocktails and lazing on the beach. Now...
That exercise has a positive effect on health should be obvious by now. However, how much exercise is needed and in what way, opinions still differ. In the United States, new guidelines for exercise were also published in the journal JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association).... at the end of 2018.
Diabetes is one of the most common chronic diseases in the Netherlands, but did you know that it is also one of the leading causes of death in our country? Over 1 million Dutch people have diabetes and this number is still rising sharply. What is diabetes anyway? Diabetes is also called diabetes and causes the body to...
The sun is already showing itself regularly, the terraces are filling up nicely, the bikes are being taken out of the shed and the days are getting longer, which can only mean one thing; spring has started! Summer time will also start on the last Sunday of this month, making the days seem even longer! To celebrate the...