Balance the Body

Is Your Current Lifestyle Making You Ill?

Are your daily lifestyle choices setting you up for illness in later life, or even worse are they impacting your life right now? Take our quiz today and find out! 15 Questions, 70 points, what's your health score?

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8 Questions To Inspire Your Healthy Lifestyle Habits

8 Questions To Inspire Your Healthy Lifestyle Habits

So here I am today sitting in the café of Hexham Hospital while my sister has a minor procedure carried out. Being someone who just loves the world passing by and particularly watching people I find it fascinating looking at the people around me here right now. This is how I ...
How Do You Successfully Lose Weight?

How Do You Successfully Lose Weight?

Here is a question I’m asked all the time, how do you successfully lose weight? In truth the answer is quite simple: Burn more calories than you consume. To do this you simply have to exercise. As exercise will greatly increase the number of calories burned from day to day. You will not only ...
Are You Always Absolutely Knackered?

Are You Always Absolutely Knackered?

So many people I meet complain about fatigue. They don’t have the energy to do anything. They’re always feeling tired, both physically and mentally. Fatigue is the feeling of extreme tiredness or feebleness that can make it difficult for you to perform ordinary tasks. You are fatigued when you’re feeling worn out ...
Does your body need antioxidants?

Does your body need antioxidants?

If you’re finding it difficult to concentrate you could need a boost of antioxidants. Antioxidants are naturally occurring substances in our body that help fight the oxidative damage to our cells. This damage is caused by an imbalance between the production of reactive oxygen and our body’s ability to detoxify or repair ...
What is Milk Thistle?

What is Milk Thistle?

Milk Thistle is a flowering plant native to the Mediterranean, Africa and the Middle East, and its fruit and seeds have been used for thousands of years, for many different ailments, as a herbal remedy. Ancient Greeks and Romans would use Milk Thistle to treat things like snake bites, while it ...
Running for Health

Running for Health

Did you know that running for health can help reduce the risk of chronic illnesses such as heart disease and type 2 diabetes as well as boosting your mood and keeping your weight under control? Physical activity isn’t just a choice; it’s an essential part of your lifestyle. Following a programme of ...
The Benefits of Fenugreek for Women

The Benefits of Fenugreek for Women

Fenugreek, a common ingredient in curry, may seem like a fairly innocuous herb at first glance, but it actually has a whole host of medicinal benefits that can help women’s health in a variety of different ways. Whether you decide to grow your own source of the herb in a garden ...
5 A Day The Easy Way

5 A Day The Easy Way

Do you get your five a day of fruit and vegetables? Today I will show you how to get your 5 a day the easy way. More people than ever are now aware of the importance of eating more fruit and vegetables. Yet many of you are still not eating enough! ...
How to lower your blood pressure

How to lower your blood pressure

My friend was recently diagnosed with high blood pressure. He obviously is concerned and has asked me the question how to lower your blood pressure? Here is some advice I told him as to what he can do to bring it back down naturally. His anxieties heightened enormously when he read that ...
8 Steps to Energize Your Life

8 Steps to Energize Your Life

Do you suffer from a lack of Energy? Are you feeling run down, needing more energy in your life, feeling negative about yourself recently? Do you struggle to get up in the mornings, or is it big energy slumps in the afternoon that affect you the most? We push ourselves towards exhaustion ...