‘HEALTHY LIVING’ Archives
SEA GREENS
INTERVIEW: SIMON RANGER Seaweed is often claimed to be a healthy food – one that we in the west should pay more attention to. So just what is so great about it. Simon Ranger is form Seagreens.
LOOKING AFTER EYES
INTERVIEW: ROSIE GAVZEY Ultraviolet, tobacco, alcohol, high cholesterol diets – can all damage our eyes. That’s according to Rosie Gavzey from the Eye Care Trust.
HOW MANY TYPES OF VEGGIE ARE THERE?
A GUIDE TO NON-CARNIVORES. By HELEN CHAPMAN With people using the word ‘vegetarian’ to mean so many things (I once heard someone describe themselves as partly vegetarian – what does that mean?) it’s no wonder people still get confused about what foods come under this diet. I even have a friend that claims [...]
PAIN-FREE BIRTH
INTERVIEW: JANAY ALEXANDER 740,000 women give birth each year in the UK, and 90% of them say that its painful and they require some sort of pain relief. Janay Alexander is from the Birth Specialists and she has 5 top tips for making the birth process less painful and possibly even painfree.
CHERRY BEATS CANDIDA
Do you go up a dress size in a day? Find out why – and how to stop it. By CHANTAL COOKE Going up a dress size in a day may seem extreme, but for many women its a reality. Excessive bloating can actually mean that clothes that fit in the morning are far too tight by the evening. The good news is this isn’t actually fat or [...]
CYCLING
INTERVIEW: ALBAN THURSTAN Cycling is one of the most sustainable forms of transport – and also one of the cheapest. Sp although it may not be suitable for every journey, if you can swap the car for the bicycle just a few times each week you’ll be helping the planet, your own health and your pocket. Alban Thurstan from Sustrans has some top [...]
10 STEPS TO REVITALISE YOUR LIFE
REVITALISE YOUR LIFE. By HARALD GAIER. Your energy levels are essential to how you feel – when you are feeling full of energy you’ll also be feeling good. A lack of energy will probably leave you feeling down in the dumps. So if you want to feel great – then its time to energise your life! Here are ten top tips to put that [...]
HORMONES
INTERVIEW: LINDA CROCKET For some women their hormones can wreak havoc in their lives. So what is it about hormones that makes them so troublesome? Linda Crockett is author of “healing our hormones, healing our lives”.
NEW ROUTINE FOR A NEW YEAR
BE GENTLE WITH YOURSELF. By JAYNE MORRIS. In our lives it is easy to get caught up in the go, go, go and rush, rush, rush – so much so that we are constantly pushing ourselves to keep going; filling each moment with doing something productive and forcing ourselves to give more and more. The problem with this is that it is not [...]
DON’T BE FOOLED BY STRESS
COULD STRESS MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES BE DOING MORE HARM THAN GOOD? By CHERRY SMITH. Stress is not just emotionally draining – it’s physically damaging too. So if you just treat the emotions and not the physical affects within the body you can actually find you are doing more harm than good. For example, if you reduce the [...]
