Currently we are experiencing incredibly strange and difficult times! However, this does not mean you cannot achieve your fitness goals. Staying fit has become an even bigger part of many people’s lives over the last few weeks. This is because it allows us to do something we can continue despite being in lockdown, ...
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‘Why do people around the world tell stories? Is it because there is some urgent need to confess?’ writes James Pennebaker. In many native cultures we see stories passed from generation to generation in order to maintain customs and traditions and the honour of a tribe. As I write this article we have just had the ...
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I’ve been making soap (and lots of other stuff) for a long time. It’s such a magical process and I generally make up enough for about a year or so. It’s also of course much cheaper than buying it, plus you have the added benefit of knowing exactly what’s in it. For example: no unsustainable palm oil, no synthetic ...
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Have you ever said “I wish the world would stop so that I can get off”? I know that in extremely busy and stressful times I have said it myself. Now that we are in this global pause we have been given a tremendous opportunity to recalibrate and reset our lives, and yet it comes as the result of global tragedy. To ...
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Surrey based company GoFest Active is offering free places at its Easter and May Half Termkids camps for NHS workers and emergency services staff. Paul Farris, CEO said “Nobody is working harder than those on the frontline. As well as the unprecedented workloads they are taking on, childcare is also a concern. ...
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It’s a well known fact that the average man pays less attention to his health than the average woman. Compared to women, men are more likely to drink alcohol and smoke, make risky choices and not see a doctor for regular checkups. Men have 4% more brain cells than women and about 100g more brain tissue but somewhere ...
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'Health is life lived in the silence of the organs' wrote the French surgeon René Leriche in 1936. Disease or ‘dis-ease’ (the absence of ease) usually shouts loudly and makes a lot of noise whereas health is silent. Or is it? A body struggling to cope will send messages of distress, but more often than not the ...
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'Despite advances in modern medicine and technology, today more than ever people are suffering from chronic illnesses through all stages of the human life cycle. In our search for health, have we missed something?' . . . writes Dr Joseph Pizzorno in his book The Toxin Solution. The sub-heading reads as follows: ...
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As we enter a new year and a new decade. It's common at this time of year to look back over the past year and to take stock. We buy new journals or new diaries, we set new goals and adopt new habits. Science shows that those new goals and new habits have often fallen away by the middle of February. What is it that ...
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Imagine this . . . Children playing quietly with their new Christmas presents, wonderful smells of Christmas lunch wafting in from the kitchen and parents enjoying a quiet cup of coffee before family arrive. Or maybe your scenario looks more like this . . . children racing around the house screaming, a harassed cook ...
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