The sun can help boost our mood, and make us feel good, but it can also cause serious damage to our skin and our health. And so, the British Association of Dermatologists’ is reminding us all to take care of our skin as part of the recent Sun Awareness Week, with tips including: Protect your skin with clothing – don’t forget to wear a hat that protects your face, neck and ears. Spend time in the shade between 11am and 3pm when it’s sunny. When choosing a sunscreen, look for a high protection...

New research has revealed that a quarter of people with food allergies suffer reactions when eating out. The worrying survey has revealed that improvements for those with allergies have been made since new labelling rules were introduced, but more needs to be done by food businesses to implement legislation. The research, by the Food Standards Agency and Allergy UK, has found that despite improvements, one in four people with a food allergy has suffered a reaction while eating out in a...

We plan for it for months, and then as soon as we jet off on holiday, our healthy living routine can go out of the window. And while it’s important to relax and enjoy yourself, with a few simple steps, you can ensure you don’t undo all your healthy good work while you are on holiday. Health and Fitness Travel, which specialises in healthy holidays around the world, is helping to make this a little easier by sharing different ways to stay healthy on holiday. Travel healthy: Being confined to...

With the coming months the perfect time to get gardening, we should all be aware of the potential damage we can do to our backs. Weeding the flower beds, trimming the hedges, mowing the lawns and planting the borders are popular pastimes, especially in the summer, however, often, gardening can lead to tension and backache. Bosch, which has created various gardening products that have been awarded the seal of approval by the AGR (Campaign for Healthier Backs), has offered its advice on dealing...

If you’re into exercise, the warmer months require a change in your kit, and Natural Lifestyle has just the thing. Regatta’s Spring Summer 1016 technical ranges boast a technical fit for any occasion. For performance, Regatta has introduced two new base layer fabric offerings – Isovent and Isovapo. The fabrics are highly breathable, lightweight and quick drying, making them ideal for high energy activities. We particularly like the Breakbar II T-Shirts, which use soft-touch Isovent fabric with...

Do you struggle to lose weight? Perhaps you don’t seem to be able to make lasting changes? A new holistic boot camp has launched, which focuses on treating the cause, not just the effect, of weight loss. While the vast majority of UK boot camps fail to address the root causes of their poor food and fitness choices, NuBeginnings is described as a five star boot camp, which helps those locked in a cycle of yo-yo dieting to break free from their bodily and mental shackles. Victoria Wills founded...

With holiday season within sight, you might be planning your wardrobe already. But what about the toiletries you are going to take? Well, you can now take the stress out of it thanks to deluxe Swiss skincare brand, ananné, which has created a compact skincare travel set to ensure you travel light and worry free without compromising on your favourite skincare essentials. It includes Lavanticum Purifying Cleanser, Equilibrium Day Cream and Cura Noctis Night Cream. What’s great is that this brand...

We all like to pick up a bit of a tan during the summer, but you should also know how important it is to protect our skin from the sun’s damaging rays. And at the perfect time comes the launch of the lovely lavera’s new range of sun care products – and Natural Lifestyle is impressed! This excellent brand has created four new 100 per cent natural and organic mineral sun care products, all designed to look after the skin, and free from some of the most damaging chemcials. As an added bonus, it...

A new study has revealed that men who follow a vegan diet could be at 35 per cent reduced risk of developing prostate cancer. The major new study, funded by World Cancer Research Fund, was carried out by researchers at Loma Linda University, in California, who studied more than 26,000 men, and for the first time assessed the link between prostate cancer and various types of diet including non-vegetarian, pescatarian and vegan diets. Dr Panagiota Mitrou, Director of Research Funding at World...

New research has revealed that almost half the nation feels they do not have sufficient knowledge of the risk of cardiovascular disease and what they can do to prevent it. That’s according to the results of a new survey from Pharma Nord, which aimed to reveal awareness levels around heart disease. For example, two in 10 were unaware of the influence of type 2 diabetes and poor diet on the risk of cardiovascular disease and less than one third (30 per cent) of people said that they eat...