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Eat Your Way to Lower Cholesterol Levels
It's a medical fact that high cholesterol levels are very bad for your heart, so anything we can do to lower our cholesterol is a good thing.
Continue reading...Paying a High Price
We’re victims of our own successes here in Blighty. We strive to achieve Top marks in all aspects of our lives; long hours at work, keeping a happy home and being a respected member of The family and community, to name but a few. All this good work can leave us frazzled, stressed and inactive. [...]
Continue reading...Get Back on Track
“Hi, what can I get you?” beams the lovely young (clueless) waitress. So i order my lunch - afterwards she whips up the menu and ask “Would you like the healthy option?” No, of course not, I’d rather have fat-laden, grease-dripping, thigh-growing option please darling. After being on a detox programme for a few days [...]
Continue reading...Advice can sometimes be a hard pill to swallow
Since the dawn of time, man has understood that food and drink can have profound effects on mental and emotional states. The Healthy Kick As all of us women know PMT, (Pre Match Tension my husband calls it!) ‘Kids kicking off,’ Husband being a pain in the arse! Nothing quite cuts it like a Toblerone, [...]
Continue reading...What does your poo say about you?
We all do it but none of us like to talk about it. One of the most common questions about bowel habits is “how often should l go?” Most would say “once a day”. But it’s not that simple. As part of the digestion process, the food we eat travels through our small intestine. All of [...]
Continue reading...Burn, Baby, Burn
Picture the scene. It’s a sunny Sunday afternoon, and I’m ‘power walking’ alongside West Kirby beach front, gulping down a bottle of Evian water. I look a real treat too, covered head to toe in sun block with my bum waggling like the Mother Goose. Anyway, having walked my buns off another 200 calories, I decided [...]
Continue reading...Drink While You Think!
Got a headache? Can’t concentrate? You’re not alone, as half the popululation may be experiencing these symptoms of dehydration.
Continue reading...Peel will reveal a new you!
AS THE first lady of pop Madonna is renowned for her use of cosmetic treatments to hold back the years. Now Liverpool’s own first lady has revealed she is a devotee of one of the newest beauty treatments beloved by Hollywood stars and A-listers alike. But while the likes of Cher, Naomi Campbell and Paris Hilton [...]
Continue reading...Go Ballistic Over Holistic
ATTENTION: SUMMER HOLIDAY IS OFFICIALLY OVER - HOOORAH! My blond brain and body can finally take a break from trying to occupy my children’s holiday rota with exciting activities - “Fancy a bike ride, country walk - another bike ride?” With UK weather what it was, THANK GOD FOR NINTENDO WII AND GUITAR HERO, of which [...]
Continue reading...Spring Clean
UP-DOWN, UP-DOWN. It’s 6.30am and I’m pounding the Life Cycle (again) at my local JJB Fitness club in Bromborough. As I listen to ‘Eye of the Tiger’ belting out on my pink Nano, my fluffy mind drifts away to la-la-land. Right brain of course, is dreaming of forever lashing that Sarong, that’s graciously hidden my stretch-marked [...]
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