Health Blog

We all want to wake up refreshed and ready to face the day ahead!

But you might be interested to read about all these sleeping facts we have discovered that can affect how well we sleep. 

The term dementia covers a group of symptoms that affects memory, normal thinking, communicating and the ability of a person to reason.  It sadly interferes with daily life and as it progresses, can make it difficult to perform even daily simple tasks such as bathing and eating.

We share top tips to help to prevent dementia in the first place...

While many people in the Western World can now expect to live for far longer than ever before, we need to ensure that our extra years of life are spent in as good health as possible to ensure our continued independence and quality of life.

We share our suggested top ten tips to slow down that aging process.

But apples are not just for cider and for apple juice

They are for eating fresh too!  Find out about all the benefits when you eat an apple a day...

If you are in the habit of drinking cups of tea regularly, this habit has been getting good publicity recently.

In fact, it could be associated with a lower risk of mortality from disease.

If you are in the Northern Hemisphere, then now is definitely the right time to start thinking and planning for getting your fireplace ready for the winter ahead.

Everyone wants a cosy place to spend their evenings when it is dark and wintery.  And they want that cosiness to be trouble-free.

We share a few tips so that you can plan for lighting that fire!

There are so many reasons why we all need a good night's sleep - whatever our age.

However, in older adults, ongoing sleep disorders can lead to much bigger problems such as irritability, low energy and an increased risk of falling...

We are frequently urged to de-clutter with a variety of suggestions but now a new technique known as Swedish Death Cleaning is gaining popularity, helping you to look at your stuff and declutter.

It could just give you that added impetus to go for "less stuff, more happiness".

Do you spend a lot of time in front of a screen, keeping up with your workload?

Do you feel totally exhausted by the end of your working day?

Does this mean that you feel you should do nothing more after work except curl up on the sofa before you go to bed?

Answering "yes" to these questions could mean that "brain drain" is slowing you down and leading to fatigue.

A recent study has come to the conclusion that those people who enjoy a good night's sleep are less likely to suffer from a stroke.

They researchers point out that the worrying factor is that some nine out of ten people do not usually get such a good night's sleep.