The benefits of quitting smoking

With around 100,000 people in the UK dying from smoking per year, it is one of the nation’s biggest causes of death. Did you know each cigarette has around 4,000 chemicals, many of which are known to be toxic? Ammonia,...

Cysters Cervical Health Awareness Month:

Happy New Year Cysters! We hope you have had a nice break over Christmas and a beautiful start to the New Year. This month is Cervical Health Awareness month. So, ladies, do YOU know where your cervix is? Surprisingly only 1...

You are what you eat?!

Kam Lavoi has been in the hair & beauty industry for over 12 yrs and decided to branch out her services to provide skincare, make up and nutrition specialising in vegan, kosher, dairy free, gluten free, soy free and...

Kidney Donor For Anaya

Parents Joety and Amrik Kandola had been appealing for a kidney donor to save their daughter’s life who was diagnosed with ARPKD (Autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease). Anaya was born with an abnormal liver and two enlarged polycystic kidneys which...

Age is not a barrier – keep moving!   

Many people become less active with age and there are many reasons why we tend to slow down. Some reasons for becoming more sedentary with age can be to do with health issues, pain issues, and weight gain -...

Find out which Sunscreens Passed the Which? Test

Summer is here and it goes without saying that everyone should be slathering themselves up with UVA and UVB protection, in date and proven effective sun screens! But with so much out there, how can we know which ones to...

Cannabis Ingredient To be Classified as Medicine in UK

A Cannabis-based ingredient known as cannabidiol is set to be classed as a legal medicine by the UK medicines regulator. The Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) first looked into cannabidiol, or CBD, after numerous manufacturing companies made...

Make organ donation a talking point

Brexit, the weather and the Olympics are all familiar conversation topics, but how many of us take time out of our day to talk about organ donation? Talking about donation isn’t always easy, which is why the theme for organ donation...

Yo – Yo Diets

On the negative emotional, physical and mental effects of "faddy" diets The media and magazines are regularly seen promoting the latest celebrity - faddy diets. Some of these diets are very popular, in particular with women. Often many of these ‘faddy’...

Fitness Goals For 2015

Achieve your health and fitness goal this year!Every New Year many of us make a health or weightless resolution and often many of us will break it! So this year let’s stop the cycle and try to stick to...