Health

All the latest health and wellbeing information and advice from the experts.

Pollen outside and dust inside will be a growing issue for many

Hay fever relief: Expert reveals how to allergy-proof your home

With the weather warming up and lockdown measures slowly easing, one thing that worries one in five Brits is hay fever.

Whatever your plans this Easter bank holiday weekend, pollen outside and dust inside will be a growing issue for many. But there are things we can do to reduce the struggle at home!

Ivan Ivanov, spokesperson from End of Tenancy Cleaning London , has...

Delaying an eye health check-up could be dangerous

Medics urge parents to prioritise their children’s eye health over the Easter break

Sharon Copeland, Optician at Feel Good Contacts is urging parents to prioritise their children’s eye health over the Easter break by reducing screen time and booking an eye health check up. After a year of online learning followed by leisure time spent in front of the screen, delaying an eye health check-up could be dangerous. After all it’s very difficult to know if your child has a problem...

6 Products to improve your comfort during pregnancy

Pregnancy can be a joyous time for many expectant parents. Yet, it can also be an uncomfortable experience, especially as mums enter their first and third trimester. It is common for pregnant women to struggle with back pain, heartburn, itching, or morning sickness.

If you want to make the experience as smooth and enjoyable as possible, you should find items that will make each...

Parents on a budget can have a stress free, screen free, fun and active few weeks with their kids

How to kill those sneaky Covid Kilos over the Easter break

With two weeks of Easter break to get through with the kids, Claire Spurway (European and World Masters Indoor 60 meters champion) has partnered with Feel Good Contacts to help frazzled parents on a budget to have a stress free, screen free, fun and active few weeks with their kids and lose some lbs along the way (without even trying).

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The changing rate of smoking and what’s helping the decline

For years, people have understood that smoking isn’t the healthiest activity in the world. A lot of money has been pumped into advertising designed to scare people away from cigarettes, yet still, millions indulge in this habit every day.

Of course, that isn’t to say that there hasn’t been a positive change towards people giving up smoking. There’s been a notable decline in how much...

British consumers care about recycling but lacked awareness on improving their water quality

Global Survey Reveals Brits Are Eco-Conscious

The British are world leaders in recycling with 81% of people recycling when they can. The results are from a ground-breaking global survey on behalf of ZeroWater, a market leader in water filtration. Britain pipped Canada 78%, Italy 77%, and Spain 76% to the accolade.

The survey was conducted to discover people’s attitudes and perspectives on water, health, and environmental impacts...

The Great Dental Divide – The Decline of Public Dental Services

The raucous public debate over the delivery and access to dental services in the United Kingdom has reached a fever pitch over the last 12-months. With elective services such as fillings, whitening, and braces being pushed to the side as the elective dental industry was brought to a standstill as a direct result of the global pandemic.

Nowhere is the divide between the ‘ have's and...

Communication tips and tricks for to improve your relationship

A relationship is all about give and take, and the best way to improve any relationship is by improving communication . Great couples can communicate almost wordlessly, but don’t let that fool you. That sort of connection and innate understanding of another person comes after years of being open and honest, and even then, that seemingly perfect couple will still have many hard talks and...

A quarter of Brits prefer to sleep in bed alone, rather than with their significant other

A third of Brits sleep naked and talk regularly whilst asleep

A third of Brits sleep naked, according to new research into the nation’s sleeping habits.

As well as sleeping in the nude, more than four in five Brits (85 per cent) of people confess to knowingly snoring, almost a third of Brits confess to sleep talking regularly and 14 per cent of people sleepwalk.

With all this sleep disruption, there’s no real surprise that a quarter of...

Ticks are carriers of a range of diseases, the most prominent of which is Lyme Disease

Tick Bite Prevention Week 2021

Ahead of Tick Bite Prevention Week which will run from March 22 – 28, and as the coronavirus lockdown starts to ease, the UK’s largest shooting organisation, the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) is raising awareness.

BASC deer officer Audrey Watson said that as the UK started to emerge from lockdown, there would be more and more people out in the countryside....