Cellulite: Do we care and what can be done?

With regard to our fitness levels and body-composition, we have a certain degree of control.  If we want to run a 5k, we do a progressive training programme.  If we want to lose fat, we eat less but better.  There are other things we have little control over and...

Putting on weight during the menopause isn’t a given…

Or at least it doesn’t have to be. I get lots of messages from women in their early fifties, alarmed at how their “tummy never used to be like this” or “I used to be so fit and strong and now I’m just exhausted”.  This isn’t...

How Does Sleep Really Affect Our Health?

How much we move our body influences our health.  It’s one of the three main markers of health.  How much and what we eat also plays a part.  The third piece of that jigsaw is sleep, a topic absolutely fundamental to our wellbeing. When we sleep our body and brain...

Small life tweaks to help raise self-esteem

So much of how us women feel about ourselves as humans is connected to how we feel physically about our bodies.  I mean, how twisted is that? But let’s ride with it. My friend Gill, currently on gardening leave from her job and living the dream except.. “I’m fat. The...

Broccoli – Packing a punch against Cancer

You know when there’s nothing on the telly, so you scroll through all that stuff you blindly recorded in a whim, hoping for a little gem. Well, I found a gem recently on BBC2 about Superfoods. The other channels were full of either football or Corrie so I pressed play...

Cholesterol – What is it?

Whenever people hear the word cholesterol, they automatically think heart attacks and strokes.  Let’s take a closer look. What is cholesterol? It’s a fatty substance known as a lipid and is vital for the normal functioning of the body.  It helps make hormones, cell...

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