Category Archives: Health
What a Sport Relief
The countdown is on, with only two weeks to go until this year’s Sport Relief fundraiser. A spin-off from the hugely successful Comic Relief there are plenty of sport-related (and not so sport-related!) activities going on around the UK to get people involved and raising money for charity. At the centre of the event is The Sport Relief Games, which are taking place at over 1000 locations across the nation between the 18th to the 20th March.
Read more...Discombobulated by the bobbing heads
I am discombobulated about the rise of the now ubiquitous garden trampoline. When did this springing mania take over in the lives of our young people?
Read more...The wonky carrot fights back
Recently there’s been a lot of press surrounding the size, shape and appearance of various food items…
Read more...Hello March, goodbye Cocoa
Another month brings with it another reason to cut out something ‘naughty’ from our lives. With dry January not yet a distant memory we are now being encouraged to give up another guilty pleasure.
Read more...The black pudding diet
In previous years we’ve seen pomegranate, kale and blueberries…
Read more...Detoxing dissected
Throughout the first month or two of the year it appears impossible to avoid the detox conversations taking place all around us – in the papers, on TV, online and on social media. It seems a large number of us are on a mission to cleanse our bodies following the over indulgent Christmas period.
Read more...Stuff the diet!
Butter may not be bad for us after all, diet drinks may not be any better than sugary ones and venison is a healthy meat!
Read more...Health warning! Don’t grow up on the wrong street
It was genuinely shocking to read that good health can vary by a staggering 25 years – within the same borough.
Read more...Give your middle-aged brain a workout
There’s never been a better time to be in your 50s. If you’ve a firm footing on the property ladder and been in a decent job most of your working life, then you can look forward to a rosy retirement.
Read more...Eat, drink and be happy
Another day, another health scare about what we eat.
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