In the past few days something amazing has happened to me, I shared my story.
I shared the story of my battle with postnatal depression on social media. I shared it on twitter and on Facebook.
In just over 48 hours my story was read by over 240 people in 13 countries.
Sharing my story was a very daunting task. I knew that all my family, friends, school friends, work friends and many people that I…
Last year’s news of Angelina Jolie receiving an elective preventative mastectomy was quite shocking but is not the only way to prevent women’s genetic cancers. Let’s not overlook the power of prevention. A lot of lives could be saved by simply getting properly tested. Here we are shedding some light on Ovarian Cancer, for which there’s currently no screening tool and symptoms…
The year is well under way but the New Year resolution to shape up and dust off the work-out kit has not really kicked off.
Who has the time? Mums certainly don’t have much Me-Time and fitness at the gym is quite boring. My passion is in fencing but I still need to keep fit in between training sessions and apart from walking to school and a bit of cycling I have found a great way to do some…
UCL published a fascinating study which concluded that Young men in England who drive, face an almost five times greater risk of being hurt per hour than those who ride a bike.
Researchers looked at hospital admissions and deaths in England between 2007 and 2009 for pedestrians, cyclists, and drivers that were segregated by age group and sex. Using National Travel Survey data for the same time…
DON’T want to be a killjoy, but did you know that research shows the first week in February is when most women ditch their New Year diet because they can’t hack it any more? It’s about now when willpower turns into won’t-power and all our resolutions go to pot.
It’s estimated that 15 million Britons are on a diet at any one time. That’s one person in four! Funny how so many of us…
Michael Schumacher is in a coma following the head injury he sustained whilst skiing; however we were told that he was only unconscious for a few seconds, seemed ok when he came round and it wasn’t until later that he collapsed. How could this happen and what is the First Aid treatment following a head injury?
Schumacher had a traumatic brain injury following his head injury; an injury like this…
My detox feature in January has now become a tradition so here I am at the beginning of a new year sharing my ‘resolutions’ and ways of detoxing my life to make space for new things and thoughts.
New Year’s resolutions are a bit old-fashioned for me but when the old year is about to finish I always start to think what I want to do in the new year. Here are my thoughts for 2014.
HERE’S two amazing things about the way we live:
One: Most women who go on a diet give up after five weeks and two days.
Two: Over half a million people who join a gym in January stop going within months.
Why do we behave this way?
Because it’s a habit. We think dieting or going to the gym will solve the problem of a bulging waistline – so every year we do it. Year after year after…
First Aid kits need to be easily accessible in case an emergency situation arises. The kit should be well organised, ideally in a bag with compartments to allow you to quickly grab what you need. It is most important that the kits contents are good quality – often cheap kits will not be of sufficient quality should you need to use them.
Your kit should contain a First Aid book or instructions…
We are continually alarmed as to the extreme pressure the NHS emergency services are under and the importance of utilising these stretched resources for the right emergencies. But it is incredibly difficult to judge whether the medical emergency in front of us, is sufficiently life threatening to warrant an ambulance, or if we would be better to drive them to A&E or to go to the GP.
Attending…