Health & Body Archives

Jan

2011

Health and Wellness – Keys to Success: Part 2 share

Phase 2 – Adopt Habits that Nurture

Listed below are our top tips for looking and feeling great!

- Drink more water – drinking an adequate amount of clean water is essential to maintaining your health and performance. You should aim to drink 30-35ml of water per kg of body weight, per day, eg: if you weigh 55kg, then you should drink approx 1.7 – 1.9 litres of water per day. Add a pinch of salt to each litre of water to improve taste and helps to maintain the correct salt balance in the body.

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Health and Wellness – Keys to Success share

Health and Wellness – Keys to Success: Part 1

I’m wondering if like me and many others, you’re beginning your year with a commitment to detox over January and purge your holiday season indulgences from your body and a shed the few extra kilos that might have found their way on to your waist line…? I know I’m certainly carrying a few extra at the moment. Perhaps you plan to take this further and improving your health and fitness is one of your goals for 2011? (more…)

Top 5 Tips for Losing Weight share

Don’t let the battle with the bulge get you down. Here are our 5 top tips for losing weight and keeping it off:

1. Move your body – exercise and physical activity is one of the best ways to shed those excess pounds. Choose something active that you enjoy so that you will make an effort to do it, rather than it becoming a chore. Remember – sex is great exercise too!

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Interview - Local Radio Company share

Interviewed for syndication by the Local Radio Company about achieving the things you want in life and leading a healthy lifestyle.
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Health timebomb hits baby boomers: Over 60′s suffer more illnesses caused by bad diet and lack of exercise share

This article was in the Daily Mail a few months ago, but I really feel that it warrants re-visiting. Whilst in some ways it’s no great surprise, I do find it incredible that we’re getting unhealthier as a society, despite our so called advances in modern medicine and free healthcare. Or maybe that’s why? Perhaps many people have abdicated responsibility for looking after their bodies and are leaving it for the doctors to fix them for free when things go wrong? (more…)

Re-energise Your Body and Mind share

Don’t let the winter blues get you down. Many of us are trying to implement our New Year health kick, recover from our holiday season indulgences, detox and shift a few pounds, so here are our 5 top tips for looking and feeling great:

1. Drink more water – drinking an adequate amount of clean water is essential to maintaining your health and performance. You should aim to drink 30-35ml of water per kg of body weight, per day, eg: if you weigh 55kg, then you should drink approx 1.7 – 1.9 litres of water per day. Add a pinch of salt to each litre of water to improve taste and helps to maintain the correct salt balance in the body.Also avoid diuretics (drinks that dehydrate you) such as tea, coffee and alcohol. Which will also help you detox too. Drink herbal teas and fruit juices instead

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The Truth about Cellulite share

What can you do to help fight it…?

Summer is here and the last thing you need to be worrying about is exposing your legs to the world. If cellulite makes you feel uncomfortable about wearing a pair of shorts or a skirt then you’re probably desperate to get rid of it. Well, sorry to disappoint you but there isn’t a miracle cure – although there are things that can be done to help the problem. (more…)