Figures have shown that the recession and the rising price of food have resulted fruit and vegetable consumption among poorer families falling by 30%. Lower income families throughout the UK have cut their consumption of fruit and vegetables by an average of 30% in the response to the rising price of food. Whilst the average read more »

We all resolve to begin a New Year more healthily than we ended the last one, but often we set unrealistic and unreachable goals that mean our good intentions do not last long. Below are a few tips on how to boost your health and well-being in ways which can be easily integrated into your read more »

According to a new survey undertaken by a cosmetic company, having a good gossip can actually have positive health benefits.  Whether it is whispering about an office romance at the water cooler or discussing a neighbour over the garden wall – it seems that the effects of a gossip are far more far reaching than read more »

Having trouble drifting off when it comes to bedtime but fed up of counting sheep? Try these alternative sleepy time tips to help you into the world of slumber: 1.     Don’t force it Unfortunately none of us possess the power to ‘will’ ourselves to sleep, so thinking and wishing and praying for it to happen read more »

Love handles, muffin tops, beer-bellies, overhang, middle-aged-spread … all terms favoured by the media for that unwanted belly fat so many of us seem to have. A survey recently named excess belly fat as the UK’s biggest body hang-up (or hang-over?). So the most logical way to beat the bulge it is to jump on read more »

Obesity is at an all time high, good parenting is at an all-time low. Have we ‘squandered’ our chance to create an Olympic legacy of fitness, as sports medicine specialists claim? One leading sports medicine specialist, Dr Andy Franklyn-Miller, has warned that the government’s failure to give PE the same priority as other subjects has read more »

Autumn leaves falling, frost laced trees and snow covered country scenes, it all sounds so very picaresque but for many, the reality of autumn and winter is far less story book.  We now know for certain from research that the dramatic reduction in sunlight hours during winter can have a serious physical and emotional impact read more »

Today we live in an era of technology and progression. We’re inundated with hundreds of products claiming to improve our lives. But, of all of our incredible inventions, big ideas and medical breakthroughs, we’ve yet to produce anything to reduce the 100% mortality rate. Dr Sarah Brewer (of the Telegraph) believes that we’re all conditioned read more »

According to a recent study that has been published in the Journal of Physical Activity and Health, not putting the clocks back each October could help in the fight against rising childhood obesity rate.  Despite the changing clocks allowing us one extra precious hour in bed, a new study has revealed that the negatives could read more »

If you thought the vogue for tight lycra hot pants was safely confined to the 80s along with catsuits, perms and Wham!, you’d be sadly mistaken. Proskin has recently launched a range of ‘cellulite-busting hot pants’ called ‘Zagorra Hot Pants’, designed to miraculously absorb inches of fat from thighs and bottoms. The skin-tight garment is read more »