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10 Natural Ways to Build Healthy Bones
Building healthy bones is extremely important. Our skeleton supports movement and important organs essential for a healthy active life. Minerals are incorporated into your bones during childhood, adolescence and early...
Walking for Health Month
Why are the hospitals under so much pressure? The obvious answer is covid-19 patients but it wouldn’t be the right one, well, not directly but is it the indirect cause....
5 simple exercises
Stuck at home? Weather rubbish? Here are 5 simple exercises you can do at home with no special equipment. Step ups Find a step, if you are in a bungalow...
Stress – what is it and is it bad?
Stress is your body’s reaction to help you deal with pressure or threats. Your stress hormone levels usually return to normal once the pressure or threat has passed. A small...
Breast Cancer – What you need to know
According to the WHO, in 2020, 685,000 people died from breast cancer, and 2.3 million received a diagnosis. It reported:“As of the end of 2020, there were 7.8 million women...
Do you suffer with a bad back?
About back pain Bad back pain affects up to 80% of us at some point in our lives. The NHS spends more than £1 billion per year on back pain...
The importance of exercise during winter
It’s getting colder!! Winter is coming and the dark nights have already drawn in, a time to hunker down and for some to eat more and move less! BUT we...
Menopause – what are the common myths?
Mere mention of the word ‘menopause’ can provoke strong emotional responses amongst women and their partners, most of which are negative. There is so much misinformation ‘out there’, particularly in...
Know Your Numbers! – blood pressure and why it’s important!
Know Your Numbers! Week 2021 was a campaign by Blood Pressure UK offering free blood pressure checks during the period 6-12 September but blood pressure is an important measure of...
Ever considered taking up cycling?
Cycling is a great exercise. It is low load which means you get movement through your lower limbs without the weight. Individuals benefit from choosing a more active way to...
Delayed surgery
Millions of people are now waiting and worried, are you one of them? Covid-19 continues to have a severe impact upon planned surgery in the UK and dealing with the...
Running injuries – how to prevent them
If you are looking at this article thinking, this is not for me, please do have a read; much of the content is relevant to many sports and to all...