Health

17 January 2012

UK diets lack in fruits and vegetables

Britons are not eating a sufficient amount of fruits and vegetables despite the widely available advice on nutrition. The study found that we are eating less of the good stuff than ...
16 January 2012

Chocolate can be good for your health

It's the news we've all been waiting for. Women everywhere can rejoice today after a new study has found chocolate can be good for your health! Hurray! Research from the University ...
16 January 2012

Dance yourself fit!

With 2012 being the year of the olympics, everybody everywhere is on a mission to get fit and boost their health and wellbeing. Unlike tedious running on a treadmill or ...
16 January 2012

Superfood feature: Banana

This week’s super food is the banana – one of the most popular fruits in the world, often a staple in many countries. The fruit is thought to have originated in ...
16 January 2012

Wrap up warm for Bobble day

As part of their Spread the Warmth campaign, Age UK are celebrating Bobble Day 2012 by encouraging people to wear a woolly item to work or school and donate £2 ...
16 January 2012

The Big Juice Detox

For the past five days I’ve drank nothing but juice, different flavours, different textures, different juices and it has been difficult.  I started out with the belief that I could get ...
16 January 2012

A great motivator for exercising more

If you're looking for some extra motivation to get yourself off the couch, researchers may have just found the thing. According to new findings, not only does exercise help to trim ...
13 January 2012

Internet addiction similar to alcoholism and drug dependency

A new study has revealed that people who become dependent on the internet show the same neurological changes as alcoholics and drug addicts. The discovery shows that being hooked on a ...
13 January 2012

PIP Implants Scandal

As concern grows over the potential for harm caused by the faulty breast implants manufactured by Poly Implant Prothèses (PIP), the different stances taken by the French and UK authorities ...
12 January 2012

Diet trends

We look back to the most popular diets and review some diet myths that still haven't been solved.   The carb myth It's a common belief that bread and pasta are heavy ...
12 January 2012

Save a life in your lunch break

Donating just one pint of blood can mean the difference between someone surviving a life threatening situation, and a doctor having to break some truly heartbreaking news to a family. ...
12 January 2012

Diet advice from an expert

1.     What fitness trends are you predicting for the new year? Cost is a major factor for people considering starting new exercise, therefore simple outdoor activities like running and cycling are really ...
11 January 2012

Enjoy the rest of your winter

Christmas and New Year have flown and all of a sudden we've landed in 2012 wondering where the last few months have gone. Tired of the cold nights and the ...
11 January 2012

Mark Anthony's diet tips

We all need a little help sometimes when it comes to persaverance on a diet, so we've enlisted the help of Mark Anthony to share his tips with you.  The fitness ...
11 January 2012

Who's to blame for our drink culture?

There's nothing wrong with over-indulging in a few too many glasses of mulled wine and cocktails over the festive season but, for more and more people, alcohol binges have become ...
11 January 2012

British Heart Foundation recruit Vinnie Jones to encourage CPR campaign

The British Heart Foundation has released a new campaign featuring footballer, turned actor, Vinnie Jones, in a bid to encourage people to perform hands-only CPR to a person in cardiac ...
11 January 2012

Lack of culinary skills is to blame for poor diet

People are putting the blame on their poor cooking skills as the reason to why they have such a bad diet.  Change 4 Life have recently introduced a new campaign to ...
10 January 2012

Keep your social life and stick to your diet

Every dieter has a skinny minnie of a friend who you have to painfully watch gobble up all she likes and still keep her flat tum. Or the other friend who ...
10 January 2012

Fitness expert shares his tips for a new exercise regime

Millions us have embarked on a New Year diet, and we've been informed that plenty of us have already given up on our new regime - but let's not be ...
10 January 2012

TOWIE's Billie Faiers talks fitness

Why did you want to launch a fitness DVD? We wanted to bring out a fitness DVD for all ages, so even working women like us can fit exercise into their ...
9 January 2012

Stick to that resolution! Easy way to get your 5 a day

We all know we're supposed to gobble 5 portions of fruit and veg a day to keep fit and healthy (blah blah..) but busy lifestyles and hectic family lives means ...
9 January 2012

New report suggests two drink free days

With the festive season only just behind us, and most people's New Year detox underway, alcohol isn't at the forefront of the mind just yet. But as work picks up again, it won't ...
9 January 2012

Try something different in 2012

With the London Olympic Games fast approaching, many people will be looking for new and exciting sports to take up for 2012. We hear from John Gibbons, Sports Director at ...
9 January 2012

New Year dieters already falling off the wagon

It's Monday and the New Year, New You diets were started last week - but, according to new research it's apparent that 92 per cent of dieters took the weekend ...