Health notes: Now Vanessa goes whiter than white
The Saturdays singer Vanessa White, 25, is reinventing her smile with cosmetic dentistry
The Saturdays singer Vanessa White certainly has plenty to smile about as she plans the launch of her solo career.
Not content with updating her social media profile – she recently changed her twitter profile from VanessaTheSats to VanessaWhite – the diminutive star is currently reinventing her smile with cosmetic dentistry.
The 25-year-old has set her sights on getting a Hollywood smile in preparation for an assault on the US singles charts, and is wearing Invisalign dental braces – nearly invisible removable aligners – to perfect her teeth.
The braces have been custom-made for her at London dental clinic Smilepod. The aligners can be changed every two weeks, causing the teeth to straighten slowly until the perfect smile is achieved.
‘Vanessa is currently recording so it’s an ideal time for her to have some treatments done while there’s no pressure to perform in public,’ a friend said.
‘The US market is fixated with the appearance of a person’s teeth. Hers weren’t bad, but as a singer she’s under more scrutiny than most.’
Vanessa’s new smile will costs her a dazzling £3,500. Hopefully she’ll make that back soon in album sales.
Grill fish for longer life
Health benefits of eating fish have long been known, but a new study shows that regular consumption can help you to live longer, particularly if you have diabetes.
American researchers studied links between eating fish of all types, except tuna, and mortality rates in nearly 80,000 people.
They found that cooking method was crucial: grilled or baked fish was associated with those who lived longest.
Regularly eating grilled fish can help you to live longer, particularly if you have diabetes, a study has shown
Steps to happy children
Walking or cycling to school makes children happier as well as healthier.
Secondary school pupils who spent more than 15 minutes a day travelling to school on foot or by bike were found to have higher levels of happiness and psychological wellbeing than teenagers who did not, a study found.
Interestingly, researchers found that the benefits were largely psychological; there was no difference in body shape between the less and more active adolescents.
Angry people may be more likely to develop the most common type of diabetes.
Men and women who were rated as having high anger levels had a 50 per cent increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes, according to research based on about 6,000 people who were tracked for more than 11 years.
One theory is that poor anger control and aggressive behaviour may have adverse effects on the body’s levels of glucose and insulin.
Angry people may be more likely to develop the most common type of diabetes (picture posed by model)
Researchers in the US examined levels of so-called ‘trait anger’ – a tendency to see a range of situations as annoying – and of anger reaction, in the men and women, then monitored them to see who developed diabetes over the next decade.
Just how anger and diabetes could be linked is unclear – the researchers say more studies are needed to understand the mechanisms involved.
A special type of synthetic sugar could be the latest weapon in the fight against superbugs.
Australian scientists have discovered a potential new class of antibiotics inspired by the sugar molecules produced by bacteria.
New antibiotics, to which bacteria are unlikely to develop resistance, are urgently needed in the battle against superbugs, or drug-resistant bacteria.
Now scientists at the University of Queensland have found that bacteria are less likely to become resistant to drugs containing a modified version of the sugar they themselves produce.
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