April is Cancer Awareness Month

Reduce your risk of cancer with physical activity. Aim for 30 minutes a day to reduce the risk of cancer especially post menopausal breast cancer, colorectal and endometrial cancers.

April is Cancer Awareness month and while there are many factors that contribute to the rising cases of cancer. There are lifestyle habits that can reduce risk and help you recover from treatment and manage a diagnosis. Early diagnosis makes a big difference so don’t neglect regular screenings.

A dangerous combination

image of a person at a table hunched over and a person standing with the words loss of muscle

When it comes to our health there is more evidence that maintaining and gaining muscle makes a difference. A recent study gives us more proof that muscle matters!

Fibermaxxing

Different high fiber foods, grains, fruit and vegetables,around the word fiber.

If you want to maximize your healthspan, fibre is your friend. In fact, new research shows that eating more fibre improves gut health and overall health, while increasing the number of disease free years you have as you age, roughly the equivalent of 9 extra healthy years!

What difference does ten pounds make?

If you don't know where you are going any road will take you there, Lewis Carroll quote over a snowy path that splits into two.

Body composition is important because what you are made of matters, a lot. Muscle is key for healthy ageing. We lose muscle as we age, it is harder to gain and more important to maintain. The benefits of losing ten pounds of body fat or gaining ten pounds of muscle can improve your health.

How are you ageing?

Beautiful watchful eye of a healthy girl and senior woman, ageing in a half and half split face.

Even though we think of time passing in a predictable way, ageing doesn’t. There are many factors that can change our biological age and it now appears that there are two time points where ageing accelerates. How are you ageing?

Exercise is therapy

Health is a state of physical, mental and emotional well-being, and not merely an absence of disease or infirmity. World Health Organization.

Anxiety and depression affect 25% of the world’s population. Mental health is now recognized as a necessary component of health. Exercise has always been considered an important component of good mental health, and if you have ever felt better after a workout you know it makes a difference, but when compared to traditional therapies how does exercise stack up?

Show your heart some love

A stream of hearts across a banner in reds and pinks

February is heart month and here are three ways you can reduce your risk of heart disease.

How to reduce your cancer risk

List of recommendations to prevent cancer. Including be a healthy weight, be physically active, limit sugar-sweetened drinks, limit red and processed meat, don't smoke, don't drink alcohol, don't use supplements, limit processed foods and eat a diet that is full of plant foods, whole grains and beans.

It is World Cancer Day. Reduce your risk of cancer with lifestyle habits. Exercise and diet are powerful tools in reducing your risk of a diagnosis. If you have been diagnosed with cancer, exercise has been proven to repair damage to DNA.

Fancy a cuppa?

Pink tea pot and mug on a wooden table

A new review has strengthened the benefits of drinking tea. If you enjoy a cuppa make sure it is tea with no other ingredients for all the health benefits.

Exercise keeps your brain young

Cartoon brain running on a treadmill

Many studies have proven how exercise improves brain health and you may have noticed that after your workout you have an improved ability to focus. New research shows that we can keep our brain younger with consistent aerobic exercise, resulting in clearer thinking, better memory, and improved mental well-being as we age.