Health

28 July 2015

Linda Papadopoulos tells us why we need to take our full holiday entitlement every year

A recent study by Avios has found that a quarter of people are not taking their full holiday entitlement due to guilt, stress and money. Furthermore people are cancelling their ...

27 July 2015

10 Ways to Reduce Your Risk of Pancreatic Cancer

Pancreatic cancer has a strong association with lifestyle, prompting the World Cancer Research Fund and American Institute of Cancer Research in 2007 to estimate that 41% of pancreatic cancers can ...
23 July 2015

Ten things we never knew about Familial Hypercholesterolemia

Familial Hypercholesterolemia often goes undetected before it's too late. Thousands of people are at risk of suffering early heart attacks due to the disease, according to research by the charity ...

22 July 2015

Five reasons why you should know more about your cycles

Since it's arrival in the 1960s, the pill has become the default option for women to prevent pregnancies with over 3.5 million women in the UK currently taking it. There ...
20 July 2015

Exercise Tip Of The Day: Side Plank

Exercise Tip Of The Day Side Plank This exercise is a secret weapon to help tighten and shrink your waistline. It works the deep abdominal muscles (obliques, transverse abdominus) that ...
16 July 2015

Top Ten Reasons Why Seeking A Second Opinion Is Good For Your Health

Despite the UK being a nation of "symptom googlers", Brits are more likely to seek a second opinion on financial advice (36%) than on their own health, with only 30% ...
15 July 2015

Getting to the heart of the matter

Your heart is an amazing organ. It beats around 70 times a minute, non-stop for 80 years or more, pumping more than 10 million litres of blood around your body ...
14 July 2015

Eats and treats that turn your teeth

Many of us worry about the damaging effects the food we eat might have on our waist lines and overall health, and we sometimes even worry about the damaging effects ...
14 July 2015

Five top tips for whiter, brighter teeth

LISTERINE® is unveiling new Advanced White mouthwash and have they've teamed up with leading beauty expert, TV presenter and co-owner of Wild About Beauty make-up, Louise Redknapp to exclusively select ...
13 July 2015

Do you know which germs are lurking under YOUR fingernails?

Our hands and fingers are an essential part of us that we use regularly without even thinking about it. It is amazing how many times we touch, feel and work ...
13 July 2015

10 reasons why vegetarians need iron in their diet

By Sally Wisbey, Nutritionist Haemoglobin formation Iron is necessary for the formation of haemoglobin. This is the principal carrier of oxygen throughout the body and is responsible for the dark red shade ...
13 July 2015

How Can Diet Help Our Livers?

Up to one third of Britons suffer from non-alcoholic fatty liver disease or NAFLD and most don't even know it! If left untreated, this can progress into non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), ...

13 July 2015

Top Tips From Meditation Expert Emma Mills

We all lead busy and stressful lives and we rarely get the chance to give ourselves five minutes to relax. Emma Mills has some great meditation tips that will help ...

9 July 2015

What are mouth ulcers and what causes them?

Mouth ulcers (or canker sores) are small lesions (small oval sores) that develop inside the mouth, most often on the inside of the cheeks or lips. Usually painful and annoying, ...

9 July 2015

6 Top tips to sleep yourself slim this summer

According to research from The University of Nebraska, the less shut-eye a person gets, the more they eat. The new research found that when we are tired, the hormones controlling ...

9 July 2015

Davina McCall’s trainer, Ed Lumsden, give you three simple rules to keep your body fit

As Davina McCall launches her brand new DVD 'Davina 7 Minute Fit: Part Two' exclusively on QVC, her trainer Ed Lumsden tells us how he helped the mum-of-three get her ...
8 July 2015

Seven possible side effects of using the contraceptive pill

A hormone-based birth control can often come with side effects, these can range from the insignificant to the diliaberating which makes you want to switch methods. The problem is you ...

7 July 2015

Spells to beat the Scorch – how to keep your mind cool!

Professional coaches, Bec Howard and Dannie-Lu Carr, aka ' The Good Witches of the North ' have stirred up 5 practical 'spells' to help you get in the right frame of mind ...

7 July 2015

Top ten tips for a healthy smile

1) Brush for 2 minutes twice a day with fluoride toothpaste - it is simple but effective. 2) If you see blood when you brush, it is likely that you ...

7 July 2015

10 ways to Reduce Your Risk of Bowel Cancer

Bowel cancer has a very strong association with diet and lifestyle. Most cases of bowel cancer are therefore preventable by making little tweaks to everyday life. Oncology Dietitian Tara Whyand ...
7 July 2015

Top 10 tips for reducing underarm sweating

Our body is designed to sweat in order to help us regulate our internal temperature, especially during periods of excessive heat, exercise and even during illness. When sweat evaporates from ...

2 July 2015

Stay protected in the heatwave

As hard as it is to believe, the met office has predicted a heat wave! With temperatures expected to reach 36°C, the Great British weather will be rivalling that of ...

2 July 2015

Top ten tips for practising yoga pregnant by Nadia Raafat

Yoga is an ideal pregnancy exercise: mindful, holistic and gently dynamic; its postures support the body through the various changes of pregnancy and prepare it for childbirth; its inward focus ...

2 July 2015

How to avoid deep vein thrombosis

Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) is the result of blood clotting whilst it is still inside the blood vessel. In the majority of cases, painful swelling in the leg will be ...