Skin cancer - the ways to spot it and protect against it Skin cancer rates are soaring, and with increasing foreign travel, tanning and the depleted ozone layer the rise looks set to continue. The incidence of the most dangerous form of the disease, melanoma, is...
New year, new start and each January increasing numbers of people are choosing to quit all animal products and go vegan. A plant-based diet can have enormous health benefits. However, it’s important not to stick to Oreos and oven chips. A balanced diet rich in...
Get fitter, drink less, eat less, exercise more, take up a new hobby…let’s be honest, we all tend to make the same New Year’s resolutions and we all tend to have forgotten/dispensed with them by the third week in January. So for 2018, why not try...
It’s obviously nothing to do with the sport of boxing (although plenty of families thrown together against their will over the festive season might feel like punching each other by the afternoon of December 26th!). The most generally accepted theory about the origins of Boxing...
The most well-known Christmas tradition, of course, is Father Christmas, who rides in from the North Pole with his reindeer on a sleigh bearing gifts for the children (and the adults!) of the world. Here are some less well-known European Christmas traditions which may have escaped...
Are you a hoarder? Is everything stored in drawers or cupboards on the off-chance that “you never know, that might come in handy sometime...
As the wind whips up and the temperature drops, it’s time to think about weather-proofing your skin. The wintry elements together with central heating lead to a decrease in air humidity. This can irritate and dry out your skin, making it sore and prone to...
Diwali, or Deepawali, the Hindu festival of lights, is a celebration of the Goddess Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth. Its’ timing is set by the Hindu calendar, so it varies every year in the West, but it normally falls in October or November. It is a...
The word eczema comes from the Greek ekzein, meaning to boil and anyone who has suffered the red, irritated and inflamed skin condition will understand why the term originated; when the skin flares up, it really can feel like it’s bubbling and boiling over. Eczema or...
Our summer to date this year has been a bit of a wash out. We had those lovely few weeks early on but now the kids have finished school, all it seems to have done is rain! With this in mind, more and more families...
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