Here are some more top tips on how to love your feet. If you missed the first installment, check it out here! Our feet have a tough life — we squeeze then into shoes every day, and then pound them with every step we take. We ignore them most of the time, only giving them […]
MS affects more than 2.5 million people worldwide. It usually occurs in young adults aged between 20 and 40. It is far more common in women. There is no cure for MS. When I qualified as a physiotherapist — all those years ago — we were taught that exercise was not good for patients with multiple
Once thought as the seat of emotions and intelligence, the heart has always been a recurring topic of discussion in the search for a better understanding of the body. Here nutritionist and yogi Elisa Pineda looks at the foods we can eat for maximum heart health. We now know that alongside the heart’s real function of
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder affects 1-2% of the population, and is concerned with both obsessions and compulsions. You might remember Dustin Hoffman’s Rain Man character, Raymond Babbitt, who’s OCD forced him to follow a ritualistic pattern of routine. Although an extreme example, Babbitt’s OCD governed how many fish sticks he could eat at any given time, and
Admit it, lockdown has been weird. No judging, but it was weird. With regular work hours, travel, socialising and general ease of life suddenly stopping, everything was turned upside down and inside out. No longer having the need jump out of bed, I now loll under the duvet. My hope is either to fall asleep
This year has been tough. We have all been impacted in some way or another by the Covid-19 pandemic. You might have caught the virus, and are still recovering. You might have lost someone you love. You will almost certainly have lost business, or been furloughed, had to change the way you work or lost
by Elisa Pineda Earth Day is celebrated on the 22 of April and marks the anniversary of the birth of a new modern environmental movement that began in 1970. This movement has led to awareness of the impact and the footprint that our choices leave behind. To tackle this, The United Nations set 17 Sustainable
We’ve all heard the saying “you are what you eat,” but have you ever wondered why this saying is so popular? This phrase emerged in the 1920-30s by a nutritionist called Victor Lindlahr. He was a strong believer in the idea that food controls health. The food that we put into our mouth is digested in our stomachs and broken
In a world of ever-increasing anxiety, what does yoga have to offer? Nearly one in five people in the UK experienced anxiety in 2013-14, and record levels of anxiety are being reported in teenagers. So can yoga for anxiety and panic attacks really help, and if so, how? As most of us are aware, the
There is a cycle to life that’s happening around you and inside of you. Everything is connected and according to Ayurveda, comprised of the five elements: earth, air, fire, water, and space. And so, as the seasons change so do you. Thus, your experience is greatly determined by how in-tune you are with your mind
