If you want to become a healthy individual, you can’t cut corners. If you want to become a truly healthy person, you need to make sure you’re being healthy each and every day. This doesn’t mean you have to be perfect. It just means you need to make the effort to include healthy foods, get active, and create healthy habits. If you want to know whether you’re being healthy enough … [Read more...]

A lot of the time we can be motivated to live a healthier life. After a while, it can be difficult to keep it up. You need to make sure that the changes are lifestyle changes. Then it will become part of your everyday life. It is also important to look at it as a new way of life. Don’t think that you are on a diet or a restricted program. It has been shown in studies that if y … [Read more...]

When it comes to our own personal health, there are certain things we attend to straightaway. Diet, exercise, cuts, scratches and cleanliness, to name a few. And then, there are the risks that we ignore, because we believe they aren’t a risk or we believe that it will never affect us.Blood clotting falls firmly into the latter category, and that’s a shame. On average, 274 pe … [Read more...]

In this case, out of sight, out of mind is not a rule to live by! Our major organs are mostly indispensable, but how exactly do we care for them? What can we do to reduce the risk of any long-term damage?Quite often, these questions can mean the difference between life and death. We all spend so much time obsessing over our hair, eyebrows and nails, that we forget the parts … [Read more...]

Taking care of ourselves, whatever our age, is something many of us talk about. However, making that first step can be difficult and can even feel impossible sometimes. There are so many really good reasons why we can’t make it to the gym, join that dance class or even meet up with friends. Improving our diet in this busy, hectic world can also be a step too far. The abundance o … [Read more...]

Some would argue that alcohol isn’t a danger on its own. Instead, it can be seen as somewhat of a luxury, allowing you to enjoy certain occasions even more. Others would argue that it’s a poison, slowly killing us all and doing no good to the world we live in. We’re not here to debate that fact today. Instead, we’re focusing on your health and well-being. If you enjoy the odd ti … [Read more...]

It’s been three whole months since New Years’ now. A lot of resolutions have already abandoned. A lot of resolutions were abandoned on the 1st January, but that’s beside the point. Some resolutions are still going strong. Most resolutions have to do with our health. They’re genuine attempts to improve our lives. Yet often we demand so much ourselves that we’re really setting our … [Read more...]

These days we're bombarded with adverts and advice telling us how to live healthily and how to do it. Most people accept that it's some combination of diet and exercise, with the major emphasis on diet. But what we should actually do gets lost in translation. What seems to be eminently clear is that there are a lot of natural ways we can keep ourselves in good shape. We don't … [Read more...]

Although you might want to stay young forever, getting older is a fact of life. You can’t stop it, so there is no point in trying. Instead, you should embrace the twilight of your life because it is the time when you finally get to relax. As long as you are fit and healthy, you can enjoy another fifteen years that you wouldn’t get otherwise. However, you have to take your hea … [Read more...]

Becoming a mother can be something you've always wanted to be. Or perhaps you made the decision to start a family when you met the person you wanted to spend your life with. Whatever the reason that created the desire to become a mother it can be all consuming and all you think about.For some women, it’s easy to become pregnant. They describe falling pregnant as just h … [Read more...]