Health

By Sarah James 1. I can do with a month off, it will be easy! 2. It's only been 4 days! I feel like I've not drunk for at least 3 months. 3. I'm bored of staying in the house, I'm going to go to the pub, I can drink sparkling water and watch other people drink! 4. F/ck that! Back to the house, it's safe there. 5. Suddenly I stop drinking and I seem to have been struck down...

Car servicing and repair company Kwik Fit has devised an innovative way to help you shed the festive pounds. A team of their technicians are trialling a fitness scheme in a London garage which will quite literally help people lose their spare tyres. The crew has teamed up with a personal trainer to devise a system – Fit Kwik – using only car and van tyres. The free 30-minute sessions will include tyre flips, lifts and throws, during which participants...

By Dr Helen Webberley MBChB MRCGP MFSRH Christmas is the season of excess - we do a bit more of everything. We spend more money, and pay for it in the following months; we drink more and eat more, and in most cases our bodies recover; we take more risks - physically, emotionally and sexually – and we rely on the NHS to pick up the pieces. The result? Our NHS is bursting at the seams, we are constantly reminded...

By Kasia Mysiak, Marketing & Communications Executive of CLARITY  CLARITY, one of the oldest social enterprises in the UK, was established in 1854 by Elizabeth Gilbert who lost her sight at the age of three due to scarlet fever. The objective of “The Association for Promoting the General Welfare of the Blind”, as CLARITY was called back then, was to enable blind people to support themselves. Blind people were employed and trained to make products, these products were then sold and...

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor Regrettably last year there were an estimated 43,900 death in England and Wales last winter. It was the highest number since 1999. A report has said that the flu virus was the major cause of the rise and most of the deaths involved people who are over 75. One of the reasons why so many people died due to the flu virus, is because the vaccine was less effective than previous years. There were more...

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor "Get off a stop early," is the advice you might have been given when looking for simple ways to get healthy; well that's easy to say if you are on the bus, not as easy when you get the train, and the previous stop is Peterborough. However, assuming you are on the tube, the helpful folk at TFL has release an updated walking map of London. You live in a mansion in Belsize Park, but...

By Nathan Lee The average Brit spends nearly six years of their life in a daydream, a new study reveals. A study into the ways in which people while away the hours with dreams big and small found respondents spent just over two hours per day lost in far-flung thoughts. That equates to 799 hours per year and, when projected across the average 64 year adult lifespan, equates to more than five years and 11 months. The research also documented...

In honour of National Stress Awareness Day, workplace designers Peldon Rose show us how to reduce workplace stress with clever office design… None of us are immune to stress but the latest labour force statistics released by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) show that in 2014/15, workplace stress actually “accounted for 35% of all work related ill health cases” amounting to a staggering loss of 9.9 million working days. As an employer, you won’t always be in a position to...

We are constantly told to keep fit, maintain a healthy diet, and take care of our wellbeing, but isn’t that easier said than done when the world moves almost too fast for us to keep up? Between working, commuting, taking care of our homes and family, and attempting to have a social life, is there really any time to keep fit? The good news is that keeping fit doesn’t need to be as time consuming as you may think and...