Working On The Body Blog
Avoiding dairy? The you need to read this
If you are avoiding dairy products because of dietary requirements or through choice be aware that other less obvious milk-derived ingredients are concealed in pre-prepared foods with names such as: Acidophilus milk Ammonium caseinate Buttermilk powder Calcium...
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Lunch time or comfort break?
Perkbox a UK based employee benefits provider commissioned research into the incidence of comfort eating with male and female workers and found women are nearly twice as likely to comfort eat in order to deal with stress than men. Almost 50 per cent of women surveyed...
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Striking a digital balance
In a bid to improve his quality of life regarding mental health and happiness the creator of the X-Factor, Simon Cowell has revealed that he has not used his mobile phone for almost a year. He told the Mail on Sunday newspaper that his phone-abstinence had absolutely...
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Hangry is a real emotion The term ‘Hangry’ meaning angry and hungry has been added to Oxford English Dictionary this year. A real phenomenon for many of us is that as your empty stomach rumbles become more frequent, your temper shortens giving us the concept of being...
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Fortnite’s gaming-widows turn to drink
Family life is not just in chaos with children addicted to ‘Fortnite' the latest video game craze, but their Dad’s are spending their evenings glued to video games too. It’s happening with such regularity that their partners are checking out most evenings...
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Sugar craving or sweet temptation
A recent article in a Middle Eastern newspaper detailed the daily strategies a woman went through to make sure she didn’t succumb to her self-acclaimed sugar addiction.According to the article published recently in the Jordan Times, her need to eat sugar is the first...
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Appetite suppression hides disordered eating
Kim Kardashian West faced recent controversy over some paid-for content on her Instagram feed. She was photographed posing coquettishly with a lollipop in her mouth from manufacturers The Flat Tummy Co lollipops. It was claimed that the lollipop can be used as an...
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The strain of self-imposed starvation
Intermittent fasting (IF) was the shiny new kid on the block of the last couple of years. It offered a novel way of limiting eating instead of the usual fad diets that quickly gain popularity only to fade into obscurity.People in their droves bought the best-selling...
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Therapy Digest 02
The latest musings, a-ha moments, and insights around therapy and self-help from therapist Sally Baker. Striking a digital balance In a bid to improve his quality of life regarding mental health and happiness the creator of the X-Factor, Simon Cowell has revealed that...
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Are you a self-improvement Junkie?
Do you regularly seek out new activities and throw yourself into whatever it is with all your heart only to lose your enthusiasm a mere few weeks or months later?I’m speaking to you potters, yoga bunnies, watercolourists, tourist Italian-speakers, silversmith...
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