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OK here we go! The Halloween candy is in the stores, making shopping trips torturous for all parents everywhere. It’s normally placed at kid-height to capitalise on pester-power. As parents, we know we shouldn’t give in but after a long, long day a...

Covid-19 has piled stress on all of us; Keisha Allen-Smith is offering help with managing it. She lays it all out in her book, 77 Ways to Reduce Stress and Energize Your Life, which is aimed at anyone looking "to improve their physical, mental, emoti...

I was having a chat with the staff in the clinic the other day and we got onto the subject of pet names. All of a sudden there was a flurry of names flying around as everyone remembered their favourite and commented on the trends they had noticed in...

Monday evening I went on a run. I was aiming for three miles however my back tightened up and prevented me from finishing so I walked the rest of the way home. After taking time to analyse why my back was aching I realised that my sleeping patterns...

In her 20s, Carrie DeSilva thought that if she could just lose weight she would be happy. She tried everything from the Keto diet to fasting, to meal replacement shakes, belly wraps and waist trainers. “I found a raw foods diet in the back of a book ...

“We measure genius by quality, not by quantity.” Wendell Phillips If I asked you to sum up your experience over the last two years in just one word, what is the first word that comes to mind? For me, it is fatigue – isolation fatigue, lockdown fatigu...

When we're working out, more times than none we do so with the idea of pushing ourselves. A "challenge accepted" mentality strikes and we push through fatigue, never giving up and inviting the discomfort of change. At least that's how I workout. One...

“Obstacles are those frightening things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.” Henry Ford Regardless of how the pandemic has touched your life, one of the things that we all have in common is the fact that social-distancing has taken an enor...

I went to an appointment last week which made me think that I had neglected my rabbit owners and should maybe write a column for them. The bunny I visited had flystrike, which is a serious and sometimes fatal condition in rabbits. It can occur in oth...

With the ongoing pandemic many have chosen to skip the gym and workout at home or outdoors to keep up with their health and fitness goals. Check out five of the most common mistakes when training at home and how to make your workouts safer and more e...