Why Yoga Makes Mums Happy

May 24 2014

Yoga is a fantastic way to relax, tone the body and allow women to stay in shape. In addition, yoga offers an added benefit for women – balancing your hormones! An Indian study found that yoga can help relieve women of hot flushes during menopause, as well as lessening anxiety, depression and mood fluctuations. This all comes down to one magical hormone know as oxytocin. As you stretch your limbs and practice deep breathing your body warms and releases oxytocin which in turn brings a smile to your face.

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World Cancer Research Fund launches online tool to get the whole family moving

May 19 2014

The Move More Challenge has been designed by World Cancer Research Fund UK to help you get more active.

There’s strong evidence that physical activity plays a direct role in reducing our risk of bowelbreast and womb cancers. It also helps us to control our weight, which is one of the most important things we can do to reduce our cancer risk.

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Why losing weight’s like running the marathon

May 10 2014

SEEING all those magnificent marathon runners made me think about what drives them to take up such a huge physical and mental challenge. My dictionary defines motivation as “the desire or willingness to do something; enthusiasm” but that hardly begins to describe what it must take to run 26 miles and 385 yards around London on a hot day – or to train relentlessly week after week on lonely solo runs.

Motivation is about a whole lot more than desire, willingness or enthusiasm. It comes from deep within the most powerful recesses of the mind and is at the root of much of what we do – or don’t do – in our lives.

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