Archive for April, 2009
Dinner’s burning – but not a cooker in sight
It sounds like the stuff that dreams are made of… fat-burning foods that actually use up more calories when you consume them than the calorific value of the food itself. But don’t pinch yourself too hard – you’re not dreaming. Such foods really do exist – and not just in health food shops and on the menus at
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Keeping your skin young: an age-old fight?
Age-old? Well, actually no, it isn’t. For in the good old days, the aspect of middle age which most preoccupied people wasn’t ageing skin, but rather whether they’d be lucky enough to live that long. Numerous centuries down the line, with the average life expectancy for men and women in the UK
Spin Doctors
If even the thought of starting a new fitness regime sends you into a flat spin, don’t despair. Exercise doesn’t have to be about pounding a lonely treadmill till the sweat is pouring from your brow or leaping around aerobically in an unflattering leotard to the sound of excruciatingly energetic
Mind over matter?
Are you worried about losing your mind – be it through exhaustion, stress or simply the relentless passage of time? You’re not alone. Indeed these days, obsessing about one’s “little grey cells” has long since ceased to be the preserve of the legendary Hercule Poirot. The bad news is that
Chocolate tax meltdown
Few of us these days can be unaware of the perils of excessive chocolate consumption, but equally few of us are keen to renounce our chocolate treats – the truth is, when it comes to chocolate we’d far rather “chew” than “eschew”… So what are the options if we want to continue partaking
Pregorexic or pampered – which sort of mum-to-be would you rather be?
You only need to pick up a glossy women’s magazine to see that spas are continuing to enjoy huge popularity in the UK, despite the much-publicised recession. And amongst the ever-growing list of available spa treatments which can be enjoyed during a residential or day spa experience, there are many
