I suspect most men and women out there have at some stage been on a low calorie diet in order to lose weight. I know I have without thinking twice, over the years, counted calories in any alcoholic drinks I’ve had So the article I recently read came as somewhat of a surprise!

Picking your nose tends to be frowned upon and actually eating it is almost an unspeakably filthy habit, but could this habit be healthy? Certainly a Canadian academic seems to think so! Professor Napper is doing some research. He’s suggesting that biting your bogies might boost your immune system.

I’ve always had a “bent” towards more arty things. Since about the age of 5 I’ve enjoyed writing and I also loved dancing and, as it happens, I represented my local school at county level with the latter. Now some 45 years later it seems that my love of dancing may come to the fore in helping to prevent the onset of Parkinsons disease.