Wellness tips, fitness advice, and health related breakthroughs.
Wellness tips, fitness advice, and health related breakthroughs.
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With the intense heat and the long nights that come with summer so to do the beach bods and the crippling anxiety that you don't look good enough with little to no clothes on to take part in the season and its many events. There is still time to improve your diet…
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Being pregnant is one of the weirdest experiences your body can go through. All of a sudden you become an incubator for a new life: your hormones fluctuate, your appetite goes up and down, and your mood can change in an instant. Add to that the actual physical strain of…
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It's a fact of life that being nine months pregnant limits the physical capabilities of a mother-to-be. Due to the enormous size and weight of the new little life sitting inside of their bellies, it can be hard for expecting mothers to do the simplest of tasks, like tying their…
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As Loverboy so cogently summarised, everybody's working for the weekend. We co-exist in a system that allows us to do the things we really enjoy - sleeping, eating out, watching Netflix - only once the rigours of the working week are through, and there's good reason for this; not least…
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No matter how diverse and loving your friendship group is, there's always one friend you've got that you're insanely jealous of. No, not because of their good looks, great job or anything else; but simply because they can seemingly eat anything they want and not gain an ounce of weight.…
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Anyone who has ever looked in the mirror and felt insecure about their weight knows how difficult it can be living day in, day out, with a body you hate. While it's true that beauty is found on the inside, being consistently worried about your size can put a damper…
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Last week, President Trump joined North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, for an official state lunch in Singapore. The meeting marked a notable moment of tentatively friendly relations between the two nations. While the nations discussed nuclear weapons and shaped the future of international relations, someone had to cater for the occasion.…
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It would be fair to say that as far as major fashion houses go, ASOS appears to be doing all that it can to make sure that it's as inclusive as possible. They've been using different body types in their shots for a while and refuse to edit out stretch…
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Having a twitchy eye is a fairly common annoyance, and one that you are going to notice far more than anyone else does. It might feel like your eye is vibrating in an alarming way, making you look crazed to anyone who looks your way, but it always feels worse…
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"Don't go out in just a jacket, you'll catch a cold!" "Eat your breakfast, it makes you big and strong!" "Don't eat that pasta, it's been out for three days!" For most of my childhood, my ears were filled and often ringing with my mother's admonitions. I was not a…
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The trick to losing weight and keeping it off is not by dieting. Yes, you heard right - fad diets, juice cleanses, or cutting out all carbohydrates may help you shed your undesired pounds for the time being, but in order to truly get the body you desire, the key…
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Depending on the kind of office you work in, it might not be a rare occurrence for someone you work with to bring doughnuts into your existence. Maybe it's their birthday, maybe they're the kind of selfless person who'd bring in food for everybody, but you were too busy shovelling…
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As summer creeps ever closer, it becomes more and more important to stick to the weight loss plan you've put in place for yourself. Just because you're seeing results in week seven of 12 doesn't mean you should lay off the kale and go back to carbonara as a "treat".…
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A mother-of-two has opened up about her crippling addiction to heroin and has implored others to follow her example and get themselves off of the highly-destructive and addictive substance. Melissa Lee Matos was pictured by her young daughters - Katherine, 11 and Elisabeth, 9, - at the height of her…
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When doing any kind of physical exercise, it's always important to pace yourself. It doesn't matter whether you're lifting heavy boxes at work or heading out for a jog in the evening: neither task will be made easier by trying to do too much, too soon. Of course, if you've…
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During a family trip, Sophia Hadjipanteli stopped plucking her eyebrows, and her grandmother said she looked pretty. When she looked in the mirror, she realized she had a unibrow. Being a bit of a rebel, she decided to keep it. Since then, her life has never been the same. On…
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Life can be pretty stressful, so it's important to find time to relax. You could start meditating, enter a yoga class or soak in a warm bath - that is, if you're totally basic. If you're feeling more adventurous, you could try out the latest wellness trend, and pay $300…
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What with the prevalence of social media and advertising these days, it's very easy for people to become self-conscious about the way they look. We're constantly being told that we're too fat or too thin, too short or too tall, too glamorous or too plain - and, after a while,…
