Making Health Easy, Fun – and Just a Little Bit Surprising
Oh, how I wish I had shares in the Kokoro Haramaki – why? Because I’ve mentioned it in pretty much every single publication I work for this winter. It’s one of, if not THE, favourite products I’ve tried all year. But what is a haramaki and what health benefits might…
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Hip. It’s such a youthful word, isn’t it? Hip and trendy. Hipster. Hip and cool Hip just screams all things young – until, you add another word to it, pain. Say hip pain and a totally different image comes to mind – and it’s not one that brings up images…
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The bookshelves at NYNHB towers are currently heaving with some brilliant new health books – most of them deserve a post to themselves, but time doesn’t really allow it – so, instead I’m going to do a mini round-up of my faves. So, here goes. This post contains affiliate links…
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Yo NYNHBers – it’s time for a public service announcement as the nice people at Asthma UK have some advice that they have asked if I would impart….. and that is despite the fact that it’s actually pretty mild out there right now, winter, with its (generally) chilly air and…
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We interrupt our regularly scheduled fitness and nutrition programming today because….you can now squirt soap in the shape of a Mickey Mouse head, and as far as I’m concerned this is big news. Look… Okay so you have to fly to Tokyo and go to Tokyo Disneyland Resort to do…
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In the list of things I should be worried about while running around the UK, I didn’t really count being bitten by nasties as one of them. In Australia yes – let’s put it this way, I wouldn’t go gambolling about the fields like shampoo ad girl down there in…
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If you’ve ever found that you start to bloat after eating toast or sandwiches from bread that has been frozen, this could be. I’d never heard about this until I started reading the book ‘Natural Solutions To IBS’ from women’s health expert Marilyn Glenville – and there it was, on…
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This month’s theme is all things new: So here’s a NEW health milk called A2 Milk Okay technically it’s not from magic cows, it’s milk from normal cows – but they are cows specially chosen by a DNA test using tail hair which I think is pretty magical. ‘Hey Joe,…
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Hara Hachi Bu. Three short words that can have a big impact on your health. In rough translation, they mean ‘eat until you are eight parts full’. In other words, do not leave the table groaning with pain because you’ve crammed in everything on your plate, get up when you’ve…
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It’s not often I compare myself to a Toyota truck, today is an exception. You see there’s a Japanese business theory that, while commonly used to speed up production in places like the Toyota factory, works just as well applied to our minds and bodies. It’s called Kaizen and the…
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