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Let’s Chalk About Mental Health

Princesshay will transform Princesshay Square into an interactive wellbeing space this May, bringing together local organisations for its annual Let’s Chalk About Mental Health event.

Taking place on Thursday 14th May from 11am–3pm, the event aims to highlight the importance of talking, sharing and listening to others.

Now in its fourth year, the event has grown to include a wide range of partners offering activities, guidance and opportunities for visitors to the centre. These include creative workshops, mindful crafts, movement sessions and interactive experiences...

Benefits of online doctor consultations

Regular medical check-ups are the foundations of a healthy life. Most of the terminal illnesses plaguing our society can be properly managed if detected early enough. Some of those illnesses do not show symptoms in their early stages, which means they can only be detected by a comprehensive health analysis.

However, the nature of our day-to-day activities hardly permits us the time and resources to make the necessary regular visits to the hospital. This has led to many uncertainties as to the true nature of our health.

Even when an individual has the luxury of time and...

Five surprisingly effective ways to cure social anxiety

Authored by David Banks
Posted: Tue, 05/14/2019 - 10:14am

Curing social anxiety is one of the easiest things that you can do, and it is much simpler to do when you are using the right products. You could turn to many different remedies and products that will change how you approach your life. You could use these products and ideas that will change how you handle yourself. Your body and your mind changes if you are trying to relieve your anxiety on a daily basis, and you might want to do something that is good for your overall outlook on life.

1. CBD Oil

What is CBD oil used for? CBD oil is used to treat chronic pain, drug...

A festival of yoga music and food

Authored by Marc Astley
Posted: Thu, 05/09/2019 - 10:35am

A grass-roots celebration of yoga, movement, music and food takes place in the West Country next week.

Yoga Hub Fest promises to be jam-packed with all things that make you feel good.

Organiser Jeanette Phillips said: “Yoga has been expanding minds long before Woodstock. We believe that yoga shouldn't be a practice confined to a rectangular mat, our aim is to breakdown yoga barriers and to inspire new ways of moving the body and mind.

“This year’s event features a compelling line up, so why not challenge yourself with something new like acro yoga, contact...

New campaign to raise awareness of organ donation law change

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Tue, 05/07/2019 - 12:35pm

NHS Blood and Transplant launches the year-long national campaign, ‘Pass it on’, to increase awareness and understanding of the organ donation law change, which comes into place next year, across England.

From spring 2020, all adults in England will be considered as having agreed to donate their own organs when they die unless they record a decision not to donate or are in one of the excluded groups.

Those excluded will be people under 18, people who lack the capacity to understand the change and people who have lived in England for less than 12 months before their death or...

Ways to Start a New Life after Recovery

Withdrawing from drug addiction is a complicated process. It requires a lot of patience, support, and willpower to do away with a life that revolved around alcohol and drugs. However, starting a new life after recovery is way much trickier. As many addicts would say, it feels like stepping out of a cab and joining a different world. Here are ways you can step back into the world after dropping drugs and live a healthy lifestyle.

1. Avoid bad company

More often than not, drug addicts have confessed starting drugs through the influence of friends. Therefore, the first step...

What is general fitness?

How one defines it? What is YOUR definition of it?

According to the CDC, physical fitness is the ability to do tasks with alertness and vigor, without fatigue and with enough remaining energy to pursue recreational activities. Now compare your definition with this one. Do both of them match, or is your definition a mile away from what the CDC is implying?

When talking about fitness, it can be perceived from a mental and physical point of view. Even before you begin, you must consider what you’re after and pursue it accordingly. You can paddle away on your spinning bike all...

5 popular athletes who battled addiction and came back stronger

Authored by Sam Richards
Posted: Tue, 04/30/2019 - 10:33am

Over 160 million people worldwide suffer from alcohol or substance addiction. Professional athletes are no exception to that number.

With a high-profile career comes high-intensity temptation.

But, as these athletes show, you can come back from substance abuse. Through addressing your addiction and getting help, there is hope.

Ready for some big league inspiration? Here are five popular athletes that came back stronger after addiction.

1. Josh Hamilton

In 1999, Josh Hamilton got drafted to Major League Baseball. He played for the Texas Rangers and...

Alopecia is the terrible enemy that today has a method to be defeated

Authored by David Banks
Posted: Mon, 04/29/2019 - 7:13am

Alopecia is the medical term for baldness. This disorder affects 60% of males and 30% of women, it is something that can happen to any age and there can be a number of causes. Some people are suffering from alopecia because of their father or mother, or because of some medications they are taking. Alopecia or hair thinning could be caused by hormonal problems, excessive stress or existing disease, but hair loss is no longer a disorder one lives forever. Modern technological progress in medical treatment means that there are now several ways we can tackle the problem.

Whether you...

Xanax effects: Detoxification and withdrawal

Authored by David Banks
Posted: Sun, 04/28/2019 - 11:19pm

Xanax is a prescription drug for treating panic and anxiety disorders. Alternatively called alprazolam, Xanax is from a category of drugs called benzodiazepines. It is the fastest acting benzodiazepine. Once it is taken, it takes the shortest time to produce euphoria. So, it is extremely easy to take a bigger dose than recommended or take it longer than needed. Once you become dependent on Xanax, it will be difficult to stop taking it without suffering from different withdrawal symptoms. If you want to stop using it, do it only under the supervision and guidance of a medical professional...

Older adults cut drinking in half with Devon-based programme

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Fri, 04/26/2019 - 9:37am

People who took part in Devon’s Drink Wise, Age Well programme cut the average amount of alcohol they drink on a typical drinking day by half from 15 units to 7. They also reported reducing the number of drinking days per month from 28 at initial assessment to 13 upon discharge from the programme.

The National Lottery Community funded programme was first established in 2015 in response to 1increasing alcohol harm in the over 50s, with initial research showing that older adults were facing particular challenges when trying to get help with alcohol problems.

The new data also...

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