After water, the world eats more carbohydrate than anything else. And our choice of carbohydrate foods and how we eat them has a huge impact on our health, affecting energy levels, mood, weight and sleep in the short term and affecting our risk of heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer’s, macular degeneration , the rate at which [...]

Imagine being overweight, visiting a clinic and being gently taken through a therapeutic process, which included guided imagery, visualisation and other techniques, afterwards waking up fully convinced that you had just undergone a medical procedure under general anaesthetic. The imagined procedure involved the fitting of a Gastric Band around your stomach. You were aware of [...]

There are 1.1 billion smokers in the world today, and if current trends continue, that number is expected to increase to 1.6 billion by the year 2025.

About half of all smokers will eventually die from smoking-related diseases. If you are a long-term smoker, on average, your life expectancy is about 10 years less than a [...]

What is Reflexology?

Reflexology is a method for activating the healing powers of the body. Whilst the art of reflexology dates back to Ancient Egypt, India and China, it wasn’t until 1913 that Dr. William Fitzgerald introduced reflexology to the West. Dr. Fitzgerald referred to it as ‘zone therapy’. He found that reflex areas [...]

It is common knowledge that children’s diets strongly influence their health. Poor diets can lead to obesity, diabetes and other diet related diseases. Now the first UK study of its kind has shown children’s diets can significantly affect their academic achievements.

Chineham Park Primary School in the UK has a history of underachievement [...]

 
 
 
It may seem like an exercise of the 1980’s, something done by people wearing lycra with matching sweatbands, yet running remains top of the pile in terms of health benefits and convenience. Compared with exercises such as rowing, cycling, or swimming, running rules the roost. You don’t need a partner, you don’t need expensive [...]

Despite the fact that many people know little or nothing about Spanish rugby, it is actually a popular game that continues to grow. There are over 17,000 registered rugby players and over 200 rugby clubs in Spain. Okay, these figures may not compare with football but if you’re interested in the oval shaped ball game [...]

If you’ve ever tried rope climbing then you’ll realise what a tough workout it provides. The V Series Rope Climber provides complete upper-body cardio or strength workouts in 5-10 minutes, so users can get an effective exercise 3-5 times faster than using separate cardio and strength routines.
This unique piece of equipment is ideal to help [...]

There are certain exercises that have achieved special status in the world of weight training. When conversations focus on strength, men rarely ask each other, ‘How much to you lift on the shoulder shrug?’ Or, ‘What’s your one rep max for a bicep curl?’ Yet I’m sure most men have asked or been asked ‘How [...]

In the May issue of IOH, I discussed ‘fad diets’. I don’t know if you noticed but I didn’t include the Glycaemic Index (GI) diet. The reason being is that I don’t think of it as a ‘fad’. For some reason the GI diet seemed to only get popular in recent years, possibly when celebrities [...]