Health and Fitness
Parents should consider life-saving vaccine for teenage girls
Mr Tim Broadhead, consultant gynaecologist at Spire Leeds Hospital, is calling for parents to take advantage of the available opportunity to immunise their daughters against cervical cancer.
Graham Norton stamps out stress
Employees across the UK are switching off their emails and wearing slippers to work on Friday 1st February to support Samaritans Stress Down Day. The emotional support charity is bringing seasonal relief to busy workers and raising awareness of the detrimental effects of stress on people’s health.
The death of fad diets
The Black Book of Hollywood Diet Secrets may be one of 2008’s hotly anticipated book releases, but it seems it’s our obsession with A-listers rather than their fad diets that is piquing our interest, as the majority of Brits’ diet and fitness plans for 2008 are long-term lifestyle changes rather than short-term fixes.
Tesco launches free online food & lifestyle tracker
Tesco launches the UK’s first free online food and lifestyle tracker... the interactive way to track what you eat. Designed to help customers adopt healthier eating habits, it allows them to track the amount of calories, carbohydrate, fat, saturated fat, sugar and salt they have eaten in a day by giving them access to over 12,000 individual items of food and drink from all major supermarkets and popular restaurant chains.
Samsung supports the Cystic Fibrosis Trust
Samsung Mobile today announced that it will be supporting the Cystic Fibrosis Trust through a number of fund raising activities throughout 2008. The campaign, championed by Mark Mitchinson, VP of Samsung Mobile UK and Ireland, began this month with a Samsung four mile run on the 4th January.
Virgin Active drum up some fun in the New Year
2008 is set to start off with a bang, a slam and a beat as Virgin Active exclusively launches the sensational new fitness trend, Drums Alive, to the UK. Originally developed by US born Carrie Ekins, Drums Alive has already proved popular in the States and Japan.
Channel swimmer launches swimming academy
Having successfully completed the 26 mile Cross Channel Swim in 2007, raising £30,000 for Prostate Cancer Research, Cambridge resident and open water swim coach, Edward Williams, has set up and launched the Cambridge Swimming Academy.
Totally Fitness introduces America’s number 1 treadmill
Totally Fitness have announced they are making the Landice Treadmill available through Harrods and Totally Fitness stores, as well through the Totallyfitness.co.uk website. Landice Treadmill's are the machines used to train the US military and the Cirque de Soleil acrobats in Las Vegas, so they’re certainly built to last.
Commute to fitness
Fed up with overcrowded public transport or bored of sitting in traffic? Why not ride to work and reap the benefits. Evans Cycles, the UK’s largest specialist cycle retailer, gives you a few reasons why cycling to work could be more beneficial to you than you think.
Nutritionist urges parents and kids to eat more fish
Seafish has enlisted Annabel Karmel, a UK leading author on children’s food and nutrition, as an ambassador for The SuperHumans campaign to help encourage parents and kids to eat more fish.
Kick your hibernation habit this spring
Do you wake up feeling tired before your day has even started? Do you hit snooze on your alarm clock until the very last minute? The spring months bring with them longer days and milder weather but it can still be hard to break out of hibernation mode. When that Monday morning feeling stays with you till Friday, it’s time to look at the underlying causes.
Wu your Valentine with a slimline new you
Those eager to snare a hot Valentine are reaching for the teapot in a bid to shift the extra pounds put on over the festive season. Wu 4u, the nation's leading distributor of Wu Long tea, is popular among A list celebs and body conscious people wanting to get trim in time for the most romantic day of the year.
Free healthy eating guides for moms-to-be
After the initial excitement of finding out that they are pregnant, the thoughts of every mum-to-be turn to the care and welfare of her unborn child. Diet plays a vital role in ensuring a healthy baby, which is why Spatone (an Iron rich water supplement) has teamed up with Midwife Maggie Evans to develop a free comprehensive advice guide to nutrition during pregnancy.
Skip the diet – Fill up to lose weight
As the our New Year’s resolutions wear off, many of us have already given up on the idea of combating the seasonal over-indulgence and excesses by detoxing, fasting or going on a strict diet. No need to despair according to obesity researchers at Slimming World, the secret to a long term healthy weight is to eat.
UK first for pregnancy aquatics course
A pioneering course for would-be pregnancy aquanatal instructors has been developed by Salford University – with the first group of students starting 25 February 2008.