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New Year…New you….check out Orla’s top tips

Wednesday, January 4th, 2012

The most popular New Year’s resolutions include drinking less alcohol, getting fit and eating healthier food … Fortunately these three resolutions lead on to one of the most popular resolutions….losing weight. For this reason, let me explain how to make these into sensible goals…
Drink less alcohol
The government’s guidelines on sensible drinking advise no more than [...]

Its Movember, the month of the moustache… so here’s a few interesting mens health facts!

Sunday, November 6th, 2011

1. Looking after your heart…Eat your greens.
There are many steps involved in keeping your heart health…one of them is to include something green in your diet daily. An emerging risk factor for developing heart disease is a high level of an amino acid in the blood called homocysteine. It can be caused by a genetic [...]

Brighter evenings means time to exercise!

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

Use the brighter evenings to your advantage and try to increase your activity levels. We all know that being overweight can increase the risk of health problems but what that should be is being overweight and inactive. Keeping active will help strengthen bone mass, muscle mass, improve your self esteem, reduce your risk of heart [...]

Start the new year with a healthier regime

Wednesday, January 14th, 2009

Forget the extreme detox diets, start 2009 with a healthier regime that will keep you fit and healthy all year round…here are ten top diet tips to get you started this New Year;
1. Keep hydrated! The best way to flush out the Christmas excesses is to drink lots of water.
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