Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) can affect anyone and have far-reaching effects on every aspect of a person’s life. Often going unrecognised or downplayed, the debilitating condition can be triggered by a stressful event, including a personal injury, perhaps caused in the workplace, or in a public place. If left […]

‘Thinspiration’ is a word that has come into our lives over the past decade. This word has encouraged young girls to look to the super skinny celebrities dominating the media, encouraging them to engage in restricting fad diets and unhealthy body images. With an increasing amount of size zero celebrities […]

So we may not all have the luxury of a Hawaiian holiday home, a Portugal retreat, or a house, and certainly not the Hawaii dinner cruise for kids that we’d booked, and within walking distance of Fistral Beach. The dreams of sacking off the office job for a laid-back surfing […]

It seems to be that time of year again. The Christmas and New Year dust has settled, the ‘bad for you’ foods have been eaten and the beer bottles are dwindling. Time to make good on that New Year’s resolution to diet… Different diets work better for different people, and […]

Man v Food is a television show that first aired in America at the end of 2008. It’s a food reality series that follows Adam Richman, a guy with a self-professed “serious appetite” around the United States as he gorges on some of the most calorific and ridiculously-portioned food in […]

It’s that time of year once again and colds and flus are absolutely all over the place. With there being so many germs out there and so many ways that a cold or flu virus can spread, it’s inevitable that you’ll catch something at some point in your life. Usually […]

We hear a lot about the “big” cancers; breast cancer being one of them- affecting 1 in 8 women in the UK alone. But what about men? Although men can in fact get breast cancer, testicular cancer is rarely mentioned. My own brother aged 15 didn’t know that men could […]

Reuters announced that America is the most obese nation in the world, with 34% of the country’s population classified as being grossly overweight. In Europe, it’s the United Kingdom that rules the day, being fifth place in the world’s classification. With more and more weight loss clubs around, various calorie-counting […]