Healthy Heart Tip: Salt Awareness
Mar 20 2022- Fitness & Health
- Last Updated on 18 March 2022
- Monica Costa
Today is the last day in Salt Awareness Week so let’s reflect on how salt can damage our health. It is estimated that in the UK we consume around 8.4g of salt a day which is 40% more than the recommended 6g a day. Too much salt in your diet can have a negative effect on your health and can increase the risk of water retention, cardiovascular disease, high blood pressure and kidney disease. Here are some tips to help you reduce your salt intake:
Age No Barrier for Women and Sexuality
Mar 08 2022- Fitness & Health
- Last Updated on 08 March 2022
- Monica Costa
This International Women’s Day (Tuesday 8th March 2022), it seems age is no barrier for women and their sexuality. Women hit their sexual prime as they get older with 55% saying they reach it between 30-49.
Incidentally, that age range is also when almost the same percentage (48%) say that sex became an empowering act and 57% believe that sex has improved in quality and become more exciting with age.
How to become a sleeping beauty
Feb 18 2022- Fitness & Health
- Last Updated on 31 March 2022
- Monica Costa
Over the past 20 odd years, I have constantly tried to rebuild my relationship with sleep after turning into a poor sleeper following the premature death of my father in 2002. Remedies to improve my sleep quality have included acupuncture, luxury mattress, sleeping tablets (both natural and medical), yoga, mediation, various breathing techniques, essential oils, silk sleep mask, ear plugs, Himalayan salt lamp and an air purifying device. It cannot be said that I don’t persevere in my task to go back to the sleep quality I had prior to 2002.
