Taking responsibility for your own wellbeing
You’ve had a hard day at work, the children are playing up and there’s no-one to talk to about it all. So you pour a drink – just one won’t hurt and then you pour another. And before you know it that’s half a bottle in one evening and so it goes on all week. [...]
After a funny summer like we’ve had this year, you wonder if we will have stocked up on our Vitamin D levels. Exposure to the sun is the main source (90 per cent) of Vitamin D, and health experts are concerned that some people are so obsessed by not getting skin cancer that they don’t [...]
Flying can be a hazardous business – not from a safety point of view – but in terms of your health. Sometimes you can catch a bug on the plane and spend most of your well-earned holiday in bed. There are many ways of easing the effects of a long flight, so that you can [...]
ALTITUDE PROBLEMS Over 7,000 feet some people get altitude sickness: dizziness, vomiting, chest pains, difficulty with breathing, headaches, and insomnia. So whether it’s up a mountain or in the air: Try Coca 30 homeopathic remedy before you set off and take regularly during the journey if you are suffering. Featured Products Coca 30C Helios [...]
A survey of 1,142 women found that 54 per cent had a comfort food – usually chocolate and one in five women had hidden food or eaten in secret, while a quarter had lied about what they were eating.* There’s no doubt that many of the popular diets work for some people but they don’t [...]
Twice as many people have hayfever as they did 20 years ago. Find out why and what do about it. There could be many reasons why 16 million people in the UK now suffer from hayfever. Contributory factors: climate change poor diet the fact that children are brought up in sanitised environments, not allowing them [...]
Feeling just ‘alright’ is not all right, according to Patrick Holford, nutritionist, author, broadcaster and director of the Brain Bio Centre He surveyed 55,000 Britons to find out what makes them leap out of bed in the morning with enthusiasm, a consistent good mood and a sharp mind. The Brain Bio Centre works with people who [...]
Paracelcus ((1493-1541),, ‘Wine is a food, a medicine, and a poison – it’s just a question of dose’. So what is the truth? There has been alarming news recently about the increase in liver disease, particularly among young people, so how can drinking ever be beneficial to your health? Red wine can protect the [...]
Smoking in public places in the UK was banned four years ago, so it’s not uncommon to see huddles of workers outside their workplaces smoking in the street. Isn’t it much easier to give up? There are 10 million smokers in the UK, the majority of whom are young people. Two thirds of smokers took up [...]
Did you know that? Nearly five million working days are lost each year due to back problems In 2008 52 per cent of the British population suffers from back pain Total cost to NHS of back pain is £480 million a year Each year back pain sufferers take 125,175,200 painkillers a year Market research commissioned [...]
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