Health

1 April 2015

The perfect Easter Calorie Counter

Tim Hart has created a brilliant Easter calorie counter for users of Female First, so now you can enjoy yourself over the Easter break and ensure you're doing the right ...
30 March 2015

How Important Is Vitamin D?

Our bodies produce vitamin D following exposure to sunlight but 10 million of us Brits are simply not getting enough. That's about one in five adults and one in six ...
27 March 2015

Zooey Deschanel: Pregnancy Diets Are a Joke

Zooey Deschanel thinks it's a "total joke" she can't have wine or four cups of coffee a day while pregnant. The 35-year-old star, who is expecting her first child with ...
24 March 2015

10 Ways to keep your vagina happy

-  "It is completely natural for the intimate area to produce odorous discharge and sweat, but some women can feel embarrassed. One way to keep things fresh is by selecting ...

19 March 2015

Top 5 Tips To Cope With The Clock Change

The clocks spring forward on Sunday 29th March 2015, we lose an hour sleep but hey, British Summer Time is here! But for many parents the clock change and lighter ...
16 March 2015

Zoe Ball proves that almonds aid agility

Zoe Ball from the radio and Strictly fame decided to do things totally out of her comfort zone for two days powered by almonds. The purpose? To show women how ...
10 March 2015

10 things you didn’t know probiotics could help with…

By Natalie Lamb, Nutritional Therapist at Protexin Probiotics ...

10 March 2015

Eight of the best healthy fats and oils

This spring, fats are making a comeback. In the bid for optimum health and vitality, the inclusion of dietary fats is often over-looked. However, when it comes to maintaining good ...
10 March 2015

10 Excuses women use not to go to the gym

Think Money has found that 57% of women who have a gym membership don't actually go- however they don't cancel it because they convince themselves that they are going to ...

3 March 2015

10 Lower Sugar Food Swaps

A sugar-heavy diet can have a dramatic impact on our health and wellbeing. As a nation, we are consuming a vast amount of the white, sweet granules in our daily ...

26 February 2015

Five Ways To Reduce Your Risk Of Breast Cancer

Cancer is often thought to be a mainly inherited disease. However, research reveals that just 5-10% of all cancer cases can be attributed to genetic defects - the remainder are ...

25 February 2015

Beat The Bloat This Easter

During the Easter holidays, we are inclined to eat more sugary, fatty and rich foods - with research suggesting that the average adult ploughs their way through 6,000 calories on ...

25 February 2015

Spring Clean Your Lifestyle

Sometimes striking a balance between keeping yourself in optimum condition, whilst managing a full time job and other life pressures, can be tricky. There never seems to be enough time ...

24 February 2015

Only 21% of women wash daily!

So it may be acceptable on a duvet day, or if you are going out that night- so save all your washing, brushing and shaving till the end of the ...

23 February 2015

4 Million British women are avoiding health checks

HeartAge has found that four million British women are placing their health at risk because they are too bashful to go to the doctor for a health check. The main ...

17 February 2015

Can e-cigarettes really help you quit smoking?

It seems that throughout the year we’re bombarded with messages to encourage us to stop smoking. Grisly images on cigarette packets depict potentially lethal tumours of the throat and mouth, ...

17 February 2015

Four Everyday Habits Could Be Causing Back Pain

Back pain is one of the most common problems in the UK with a whopping 80% of us suffering from it at some point during our life time. Back pain ...

9 February 2015

The 'Berry' Diet

A new weight-loss method could be the simplest diet ever - as it involves replacing just one between-meal confectionery snack with a handful of berries. Research showed that when people ...

6 February 2015

Cutting Back On Caffeine The Latest Health Trend

"While caffeine has a number of health benefits for adults with links to reduced cardiovascular disease, and reduced risk of developing Parkinson's disease, and Alzheimer's, more people are becoming aware ...

6 February 2015

Bowel health too embarrassing to discuss

Two in five women (39%) are uncomfortable talking about bowel problemsBowel health, weight and stomach health are the top three health issues women are most uncomfortable talking aboutWomen suffer digestion ...

31 January 2015

7 Ways to give you a boost in January

With dark nights, low self-esteem from dwindling new year’s resolutions and a deterioration in motivation it’s no wonder that people just want to hibernate post-Christmas, but we have some tips ...

28 January 2015

Top 10 Tips for The First Time Gym-Goer

If it is your first time heading to the gym, it may feel a little daunting. With different types of equipment from free-weights to weight machines and all the cardio ...

26 January 2015

The Soup Diet

As someone who seems to be always on a diet, I decided that soup would be the answer this year for shifting those stubborn pounds that quite frankly have an ...

21 January 2015

Sources of calcium for vegans

As a newly fledged vegan, I am aware that the one thing I can easily miss out on is Calcium, without milk in my diet. The calcium mineral is the ...