What working from home can do to your body
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Would you walk the Camino de Santiago? The Camino is a pilgrimage to Santiago, Spain. Read about what it's like and how you can prepare for your journey.
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What better way to feel more beautiful than to follow a care routine that supports you, as much as it does the environment?
The following tips form part of a careful selection of sustainable products in which you can use to integrate the principles of conscious consumption (like reducing and reusing) to help you attain natural beauty.
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Six weeks ago I twisted my sacroiliac joint and I’m pleased to say it’s finally healed! It was agony for the first four weeks, but then it really quickly started feeling better in week four. I got a bit excited and tried to jog, but it felt like the bones were grinding, so I left it another week and I was finally able to run this week, swim and do yoga without being in agony. It’s exactly six weeks today and it’s totally back to normal. I wasn’t sure whether the chiropractor or osteopath helped or whether they were right for this injury. All the information I Googled said it was a 4-6 week injury and it was right. Perhaps it would have just healed itself and I could have saved my money. Who knows.
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Do you want to be healthier but don't know where to start? Making healthy lifestyle changes can have a huge impact on your health. In this article, I'll share with you some simple lifestyle changes that will help you live a healthier life.
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Welcome to my Utama Spice Essential Oil Nebulizer review which will tell you everything you need to know about this product and my honest thoughts!
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It’s that time of the year when everyone starts making New Year’s resolutions and for the most part people aim to lead a healthier lifestyle in the upcoming year. One great way to do this is to upgrade your usual daily coffee or regular tea for a healthier green tea instead. Green teas are full of health benefits and loaded with anti–oxidants. Plus, if you think you’ve tried green tea because you’ve simply purchased a box of tea bags from a supermarket, think again.
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Technology always moves so fast and it’s crazy to think when I was a child there were no iPads, no iPhones, not even a computer! Yep, you might be thinking I’m ancient by now, but I’m only 32. I didn’t have a laptop or the internet until I was in my twenties! We never had one at home when I was growing up and it was all kind of a new thing. Even my senior school had only just started putting in computer rooms and most of us were like ‘why would we need to use a computer?’ Ha!
My children are already whizzes on the iPads at ages five and two. It’s quite crazy, but also a sign of the times as no doubt it’s going to be imperative for most to know how to work them. I’m sure they’re going to take over our lives even more in the future, which we’re already beginning to see with the likes of voice-activated home hubs like Alexa.
There’s also a lot of negativity around children using technology so much. We sometimes depend on it a little too much to entertain our children. After all it’s an amazing way to keep them entertained and calm them if they’re being crazy! We still encourage our children to get outdoors as much as possible. It’s important to keep in touch with nature and for the children to invent their own games as well as keep active in the fresh air.
Outdoor activities don’t seem to have changed too much since I was a youngster. There are those crazy hover board things, which don’t actually hover, but that’s all I’ve really noticed that’s any different. It’s still kind of a skateboard, just with a few additions! I wonder if technology will ever catch up and take over outdoor play with some crazy inventions, or perhaps the good old fashioned ways to play outdoors will always remain.
Here are outdoor activities I enjoyed as a child and my children will too:
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Ever wondered how much of an impact veganism really has on the environment?
A leading vegan charity calculated the total savings by the 10,000 people who ate vegan for a week after signing up to its seven-day challenge, and the results are astonishing.
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It’s no surprise that becoming a parent takes up a lot of time and doesn’t provide the flexibility you once had to partake in exercise. However, it’s a common misconception that parents are too busy to exercise or don’t have the time. It’s entirely possible for anyone, whatever their circumstances, to squeeze 10-15 minutes of exercise into each day as a bare minimum. Plus this can easily be done with the children if need be and there are plenty of affordable options, some are even free.
Here are 5 ways you can keep fit (and squeeze it in around the children):
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Being healthy is one of the most important things to me. Becoming pregnant with my daughter six and a half years ago really inspired my healthy journey once and for all. Before this I was always sort of healthy, or so I thought. I’d get my five a day, so that was healthy right? I’d regularly eat vegetables and salad, so that was healthy too right? I’d go for runs, they were healthy, yes? Only thing was I’d usually head to the pub after the run and have a couple of pints of cider and black, a few cigarettes and a 99p chicken burger on the way home. Nice. Nowadays I can’t believe I used to do that! I probably undid all the goodness I was giving myself as I was equally as bad with naughty snacks, way too much sugar, smoking and regular drinking, including binge drinking at the weekends.
Over the past few years I’ve become more and more healthy and I feel impossibly better for it. I never get sick and if I do it’s perhaps once every couple of years for a day or two. I no longer get a winter cough or cold which I was guaranteed before. My skin is clearer and softer than it’s ever been. I feel lighter and cleaner. I rarely have any medical complaints. I truly believe what we do to our bodies both inside and out really effects our health and mental wellbeing, much more than most of us realise.
Here are 7 ways I ramped up my healthy lifestyle:
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There seems to be a common complaint amongst parents that they don’t have enough time for exercise once they have children. While that may be true to a certain extent and we parents can no longer partake in the long after work gym sessions we enjoyed before children, we just need to be inventive and realise ways we can exercise with our children instead. Here are some fun ways you can keep fit with your young kids.
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We are all creatures of habit to some degree. We keep our keys and sunglasses in certain places so that we don't have to look for them. We file e-mails and documents in specific folders. We prepare shopping lists. We handle the simplest tasks without thinking, such as brushing our teeth before going to bed at night, walking the dog after dinner, and cleaning the bathrooms every Friday morning.
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Is it time to ditch the takeaways and return to cooking? In this post, we'll explore the benefits of cooking your own food, and how to make your meal prep as healthy as possible.
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Nowadays we unfortunately live in a very toxic environment and this toxicity is sadly also in our homes. We often think of pollution as something outdoors, perhaps fumes from car exhausts we are forced to breathe in if we want to walk down the street, chemicals from other people’s cigarette smoke, smoke rising from factories in the distance. But what we often forget about are the chemicals we choose to expose ourselves to day in day out in our own home environments.
Aerosols, air freshener, laundry products, bleach and many everyday household cleaning products are filled with toxic irritating nasties that we should really avoid. Many of the harsh ingredients in these products can cause short term side effects such as headaches, skin irritations, nausea and more. The long term side effects are also a concern. Regular inhalation of the fumes from these products cannot be good for us. The red poison, danger and warning signs on the labels are enough to make me stop and think about what I am breathing in, letting touch my skin and pouring away into the environment.
Luckily natural household cleaning products are becoming more and more widely available. This means we are no longer forced to use highly toxic potentially health threatening versions and can now choose to have a less chemical filled home. Sure, they may be a little bit more expensive, but for the sake of our health, our children’s health and protecting the environment, this little extra cost is surely worth it?