Running around after your child can be exhausting, but staying up and worrying could deprive you of needed sleep. You don’t want to take medications for they may put you out in a way that doesn’t allow you to awake if your newborn is crying. However, there are several foods that actually help in promoting sleep that isn’t harmful to yourself or your breastfeeding baby.
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As a busy mum, sugary foods can often be a quick source of energy, a respite for a hectic day or just a quick easy food to grab. Unfortunately, this sweet poison is doing you harm. If you’ve not yet been convinced to cut back on the sweet stuff, let these 10 reasons motivate you to change your habits.
1. Wrinkles
Yes, sugar gives you wrinkles. Some of the sugar molecules you eat attach to…
Yoga is a fantastic way to relax, tone the body and allow women to stay in shape. In addition, yoga offers an added benefit for women – balancing your hormones! An Indian study found that yoga can help relieve women of hot flushes during menopause, as well as lessening anxiety, depression and mood fluctuations. This all comes down to one magical hormone know as oxytocin. As you stretch your…
The Move More Challenge has been designed by World Cancer Research Fund UK to help you get more active.
There’s strong evidence that physical activity plays a direct role in reducing our risk of bowel, breast and womb cancers. It also helps us to control our weight, which is one of the most important things we can do to reduce our cancer risk.
World Cancer Research Fund UK recommends at…
SEEING all those magnificent marathon runners made me think about what drives them to take up such a huge physical and mental challenge. My dictionary defines motivation as “the desire or willingness to do something; enthusiasm” but that hardly begins to describe what it must take to run 26 miles and 385 yards around London on a hot day – or to train relentlessly week after week on lonely…
Clear skin, shiny locks and strong nails are something we all want but as well as looking after them topically with good quality products, their health depends on them being fed from the inside. Certain foods and drinks definitely have the X Factor when it comes to offering an extra boost so here are the top ten in each category with an example ‘day in your diet’ which includes all the…
CUT your daily sugar intake by half! That was the advice recently from the World Health Organisation, which woke up belatedly to the planet’s mounting weight problem. But how much is half? Trying to find the answer to that is so exhausting you might need a cup of hot sweet tea afterwards!
I did a very unscientific survey among friends and their guesses of what the new suggested…
In this article I explore five myths about Postnatal depression and the facts. Postpartum depression can occur at any point during the first year after a baby is born. There is help available to mothers including therapy (essential to recovery), medication (antidepressants), alternative natural remedies (such as CBD oil),yoga, meditation, support groups.
1. Myth: Women with PND are…
Pregnancy related back pain is very common and can affect between 50-75% of women at some point during their pregnancy. Back pain can occur at any time, but particularly between the fifth and seventh months of pregnancy, when pregnant women carry the most additional weight.
What most women may not know is that, during pregnancy the female body gains an average of two and half stones in weight.
Road Traffic accidents – how to help!
On the 11th November there will be a National Road Safety Seminar and the Government has launched an excellent websitewww.think.direct.gov.uk designed for children and teenagers to make them more aware of the dangers on the road.
In most of the EU Countries people learn First Aid as part of their driving test – this does not happen in the UK. Accidents…