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A Look in the Mirror

By |2021-11-29T15:45:13+00:00November 22nd, 2017|Articles, Body|

So Apple have just brought out a phone where you stare at the screen and it recognised your face and then opens up a world of everything. Social media, Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat the list goes on, places where we don’t really know anyone and nobody knows us. It opens games, emails, business, spreadsheets, maps, holiday [...]

Why You are Probably Breathing Incorrectly

By |2021-11-29T15:50:55+00:00November 21st, 2017|Articles, Body, Soul|

Life begins and ends with the breath, and every breath we take can have a positive or negative impact on our bodies depending on how it is performed. The average person breathes 25,900 times a day, which correlates to 12-16 breaths per minute. Though one of my teachers, Paul Chek, who is an internationally-renowned expert [...]

Centenarian Wellbeing: Living My Life the Okinawan Way Part 1

By |2021-11-29T15:57:17+00:00November 11th, 2017|Articles, Body, Soul|

I LOVE healthy food, what more can I say? It’s a passion of mine that has grown immensely over the last ten years, a passion from which I have improved my own health, the health of my family and have formed a successful career. I now run a private nutrition clinic, write a nutrition column [...]

Developing Mindful Training and Exercise

By |2017-11-10T12:01:39+00:00November 10th, 2017|Body, Mind|

I’ve always been in good health for as far as I can remember. I come from a very big family – we’re two brothers and three sisters – and from a very young age our father encouraged us to engage in sports, from football to running and ping pong to simply exercise at home with [...]

The Raw Food Revolution: Fact or Fad?

By |2021-11-29T16:18:27+00:00November 6th, 2017|Articles, Body|

Load up Instagram and search for hashtags such as #cleaneats and you’ll unearth a wealth of enticingly colourful dishes… and many of them will be made from entirely raw ingredients. Raw food diets are probably the natural next step in our quest for pure, wholesome eating. Many of us have already shunned gluten, sugar, dairy [...]

Go to the Gym? I’d Rather Take the Stairs…

By |2021-11-29T16:29:47+00:00November 5th, 2017|Articles, Body, Sub Feature|

Without wishing to brag, I used to be rather fit (physically fit, not the other one). From my time at primary school all the way up to college, I kept myself fit simply by walking. I would walk to primary school, which was a good 10-15 minute trip, and even though I used to get [...]

Is Social Media and Modern Technology Responsible for the Death of Conversation?

By |2021-11-29T16:33:13+00:00November 5th, 2017|Articles, Body|

Last year The Guardian published an interesting article about the “Death of Conversation”. It outlines the stance that humans now use headphones as avoidance techniques to escape conversation, and how many of us are now learning to make eye contact and text at the same time. The article also implies the dangers of how social [...]

Food Myths – True or False

By |2021-11-29T16:33:53+00:00November 5th, 2017|Articles, Body|

If asked to reflect upon our now sepia-toned childhood I’m sure many of us would be able to recall the various ways our parents would woo us into eating healthily. Perhaps the seductive promise that eating carrots would provide remarkable night vision, chomping down spinach would result in Popeye’s super heroic strength, or quite simply, [...]

The Power of Tea

By |2021-11-29T16:34:39+00:00November 5th, 2017|Articles, Body, Sub Feature|

With the freedom of being able to choose the subject upon which I write each week, I am invariably able to cover subjects that I feel passionate about. The virtual document you see before your very eyes is certainly no exception. Indeed, you may have guessed by the title that, like millions of others in [...]

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