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Wine improves gym performance

Wine improves gym performance Who saw that headline? Now before you reach for the wine and put it into your water bottle, hang on. The ingredient in wine known as resveratrol, can actually help improve physical performance. Everyone knows resveratrol means wine right? NO! The ingredient can also be found in nuts and of course grapes, …

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Turmeric

The wonders of turmeric! I am sure you have all heard the buzz about turmeric, Starbucks sell turmeric lattes, lots of places are becoming aware of how important turmeric is to us. What isn’t explained is turmeric is not very well absorbed unless you have a potentiator. WHAT? A spice can be powerful, but to …

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Friendly Family Nutrition

Welcome to day four Friendly Family Nutrition Todays antics have been fairly mild in comparison to earlier in the week:) Nala has remained clean (Ish) although I believe she had a sly roll as she still smells:(                       This morning we all managed to have …

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Love or Loath?

LOVE or LOATH? Fast approaching the month of magic. What does December mean to you? This is the question I put out to ten people recently, the response was the following…… Financial problems Pressure Stress Over eating Over drinking Weight Gain Depression  Feeling Lonely WOW!!!!!! I had no idea so many people disliked the month …

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What is lost from sweat?

What are you losing in your sweat? We exercise to stay fit and healthy, and because we know it is the only way to achieve the body shape we want. I use exercising as an example but sweating even just on a dog walk or brisk walk up a staircase is the same, isn’t it? …

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Lunch box guilt

Half Term Guilt in the lunch box! It’s approaching fast, half-term already, it feels like only yesterday that I was looking forward to the summer holidays. The October half term is a strange half term for the parents, we have all taken a fair amount of our yearly holidays with the family up to the end …

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