It’s important to keep tabs on your blood sugar levels throughout your life. An imbalance in blood sugar is usually found in patients with diabetes, but it can occur in non-diabetic people as well. High or low blood sugar levels left untreated can result in damaged organs, nerves, blood vessels, and even diabetic comas. Here are some of the signals to keep an eye out for if you’re worried about your blood sugar levels.
About diabetes
Over 30 million people in the US have been diagnosed with diabetes. If you have diabetes, you probably already know your own recommended...
We are just a couple of months into 2020 and it has already been a roller-coaster of a year. From politics to public shifts in behaviour, if this year promises one thing it is unpredictability and new challenges across all industries, not least haulage in the South West.
In this article, we take a look at 4 of the biggest challenges and opportunities that we are likely to see in the South West hauling industry this year. Gaining an awareness of these challenges is a good way to ensure you are prepared and ready to adapt when required.
There comes a time for all of us when we look at our wardrobe and despair. Generally, the clothes we wore last year are now completely off-trend or such poor quality that one summer has worn them out. For most people, this time comes at least once a year and usually around the start of spring. We have been hiding away indoors, covering up with cosy layers and generally forgetting that spring and summer even exist. If it sounds familiar, now is the time to start thinking about the kind of wardrobe you want in 2020, but it’s also the time to consider investing in some higher quality garments...
EDGE, London Contemporary Dance School’s international touring postgraduate company perform a triple bill of specially commissioned brand-new works by renowned choreographers Alleyne Dance, Igor X Moreno and Riccardo Buscarini. With each piece comes a new point of exploration: how movement can create emotion or characters; how dance interacts with different art forms; how using the body can reveal meaning, ideas and desires.
Expect physicality, poetry and rigour as the 14 young dancers from across the globe (including the USA, Norway, Slovenia, Israel, Canada, Poland and the UK)...
On Saturday 14th March 2020, Alopecia UK will be hosting a South West of England Regional Roadshow in Exeter at the Mercure Southgate Hotel, EX1 1QF from 1pm-4pm.
Alopecia UK is a small national charity working to improve the lives of those affected by alopecia through aims of support, awareness, research and fundraising.
The South West of England Regional Roadshow will provide an opportunity for those experiencing hair loss to meet people in a similar situation, which can provide a real sense of support and friendship. Local and national businesses offering products and...
A leading Devon law firm has been included in the prestigious Sunday Times 100 Best Companies list for the sixth consecutive year.
At a glittering awards ceremony in London on 20 February 2020, Stephens Scown LLP was ranked at number 74 in the list of 100 best medium sized companies to work for in the UK.
Twenty people from a range of roles across the firm went to the awards ceremony at Battersea Evolution in London to celebrate the result with some of Stephens Scown’s Board members.
“To be ranked among the best employers in the UK for six years in a row is a great...
Vue Exeter is encouraging families to round up the crew, grab some snacks and Get Lost in some great upcoming family stories.
The wait is over for fans of Peter Rabbit and his bunny buddies as tickets for the highly awaited sequel, Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway are now available. Peter escapes his mischievous reputation and flees the countryside where he runs into an adventure-loving friend of his father’s. James Corden, Rose Byrne and Margot Robbie reprise their roles in this hilarious part-animated journey, based on the stories by Beatrix Potter and at Vue from Friday 21st March...
Stagecoach South West reflects on the great success of their bus driver apprenticeship as national apprenticeship week draws to a close.
With 36 apprentices currently on the bus driver apprenticeship programme as well as a number of engineering apprentices at its four locations across Devon, Plymouth and Torbay, the South West are leading the way with some stand out apprentices already in 2020.
The bus driver apprenticeship programme includes workshops with a customer service focus covering all areas from ticket machines to route familiarisation. January’s Apprentice of the...
However you define wellness, one thing you can’t deny is our growing obsession with it, in any capacity; which is always a good thing in our humble opinion.
Wellness is a broad spectrum, it’s suggestive and ultimately down to the individual. Your personal journey to wellness will vary to someone else’s. Wellness also doesn’t have to be so over-thought and is really about the smaller scale things in life, we often tend to lose going through the motions.
So what exactly is wellness? The easiest way to some up wellness is taking care of you, from the inside out. Whether that’s...
Addiction is a struggle and has harmful effects on those who are suffering from it, as well as the people around them. Like any addiction, it is a hard habit to kick and can consume the victim in ways that they cannot control. In order to help the addicted, we must understand what they are going through and the effect it has on them.
An addiction to alcohol is no different. Because alcohol is so socially accepted, it can be hard to pinpoint when someone has gone so far down the rabbit hole. Also, it is so powerful over the victim that they may find themselves making excuses for...
