How Will You Motivate Yourself to Stay Fit and Healthy

Pushing yourself to stay fit and healthy can be hard, but it's worth it. Here are some tips to help you motivate yourself.

How to Invest in Yourself and Why It Matters

Self-improvement is one of the most important investments you can make in your life. When you invest in yourself, you're making an investment that will pay off for years.

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Weight Loss Shortcuts to Try If You Sit at a Desk All Day

Losing weight with a 9-to-5 job can feel impossible. But some healthy shortcuts to weight loss may help you. Try some proven and tested methods and see your body get fitter in no time.

Various Means to Reach Your Health Goals This New Year

New Year's resolutions are when to reflect on the past year and set goals for the next. Many are resolved to new healthy habits. Learn how to achieve yours.

Teaching Your Kids How to Be Healthy

Taking care of your children requires lots of effort and time, but it doesn’t have to be challenging. Here’s a guide on how you can keep them healthy even if you’re not monitoring them regularly.

Hobbies That Will Ensure You Remain Fit and Healthy

As a society, we are constantly striving to become more and more active. To do this, many of us have turned to fitness hobbies that will keep us both mentally and physically healthy. These four hobbies are some of the best for those who want the best out of life!

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Some Vegan Desserts Any Mum Can Bake At Home

Having a dessert craving after a meal is common. But if you’ve become vegan, then you might want to bake your vegan desserts to satisfy your sweet tooth.

Family Meal: Risotto Recipe

This is such an easy recipe to throw together (and throw together is pretty much how I make it), as well as being healthy and one that we often make in our house. I first started making this as a simple mushroom risotto with sliced mushrooms and peas. It's quick and easy and apart from the mushrooms we often have all the ingredients available to hand. Now that we have kids we are always looking for ways of getting them to eat vegetables. Our now 2 year old was so good at eating just about anything, including my mushroom risotto, but like a lot of kids, has become more selective the older he's got. So I've changed the way I make the risotto so we can still keep it on our list of meals he'll eat that include vegetables (which isn't many).

The Secrets Of Gym-Haters To Stay In Shape

Even though it has become a popular meeting venue for everyone and their dog, it doesn’t mean that you have to love the gym. In fact, for a lot of people, the gym is nothing else than an unhygienic waste of time. It’s easy to understand why. After all, not all gyms are kept as spotless as they should, and there is no joy in holding the sweaty hand bar on the treadmill while wondering how many hands have held it before you today. Not every gym member brings a towel to keep the equipment clean and dry, so it can be really unpleasant to use a machine right after them. Additionally, when you’re trying to get back in shape, there’s nothing more frustrating than jogging next to super fit individuals which make you feel bad about yourself just by looking at them. Naturally, it would be unfair to forget the membership fees, which can be extortionately high with some gym studios. In other words, you shouldn’t feel awkward about hating the gym. The right gym can be great depending on your personality, but there are a lot of bad gym facilities that give a terrible rep to the venue. Don’t worry, though. You don’t have to sign up to your local gym to stay fit. There are plenty of alternatives for gym-haters.

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The Life Tips You Need To Keep Your Kids Healthy

How many people do you know that suffer from health problems as they hit their 30’s, 40’s or above? Perhaps you’re one of those people, or you have family members like this. Either way, it’s common for loads of people to end up with health issues later in life, largely because of the way they lived their life as a child. Bad habits catch up with you!

I mention this because I think it’s so important to instil good habits in our kids while they’re young. If they live a healthy life as children, then it limits the chances of them getting various health problems as an adult. Things like high blood pressure, heart disease, high cholesterol, obesity, etc. can all be caused due to a childhood full of bad health habits.

Therefore, I’ve come up with a few simple tips that you can use to keep your kids as healthy as possible, in all areas of their life. Give them a read, and start applying them to your household so everyone can stay healthy and happy forever!

Be Happy and Healthy Today, Tomorrow and Later in Life

You only get one body, so it makes sense to look after it as best you can. Most of the decisions you made will directly impact your health both now and later down the line- whether that’s in a positive or negative way. Making the right decisions now will not only allow you to maintain a healthy weight, feel fit and strong and avoid many illnesses but you’ll also be happier and healthier later into life. This is time that could be spent with loved ones, no one should be cutting this short if they can help it. Here are a few things to bear in mind.

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Raw Vegan Chocolate Caramel & Pecan Cake

If there's one downfall I have in life, it's my love of desserts. I love making them and love to eat them!! It doesn't help when I'm trying to eat healthy and still want more than a bowl of fruit and yoghurt. Don't get me wrong I love fruit and yoghurt, but sometimes it doesn't cut it.

Then on Sunday I had a friend over for dinner who has a million and one food allergies. I needed to avoid dairy and raising agents, whilst trying to make something that was healthy, so I didn't feel guilty eating it.

I came across a website with a variety of raw & vegan no bake cakes. I already had pecans in the cupboard, so decided to give the chocolate caramel and pecan cake a go.

I didn't have a right sized spring pan suggested in the recipe so used individual tartlet tins. The ingredients below was enough to make 3 cakes, so I made an extra portion of the recipe to make a 4th cake. I served with vanilla vegan ice-cream. The true test of how good the recipe was, was from my husband and he liked it (with the ice-cream).

Juices and Smoothies

Wherever you look in the supermarket these days, you'll see "1 of your 5 a day", referring to the fruit and vegetable portions we should be eating. We all know we should be having a regular intake of fruit and veg, but some may struggle to eat the 5 portions a day.

A fantastic way of adding fruit and veg into your daily diet is from having freshly made juice and smoothies. One of my favourites is a green smoothie made with spinach. When I tell people about the smoothie I make, they usually cringe and can't imagine having to drink spinach. But added with juice and fruit, this is a great smoothie to have. I will usually add in some flaxseed (see link below) too, which has great properties and this is an easy way of adding into my diet. For a list of heath properties of spinach click on this link 11 Health Benefits of Spinach.


Green Smoothie Recipe

Ingredients

• Large handful of spinach
• 1 banana
• 1 apple (cored and chopped)
• 1 cup of orange juice (freshly squeezed)
• 1/2 cup of water

Optional

• Dessert spoonfull of flaxseed

Preparation

Add the spinach, water, juice and apple to the blender. Start the blender on a low speed, mix until smooth.

Add in the banana and flaxseed and increase the speed. Add in more water if required. Blend till all is mixed well.

Pour into a glass and enjoy

Documentary on Channel 5


On Wednesday 10th July 2013, 8pm (UK) on Channel 5 a new documentary called Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead will start, which follows Joe Cross who was 100 lbs over weight. Joe trades in his junk food diet and sets off on a US road trip with a juicer and generator, vowing to only drink fresh fruit and vegetable juice for 60 days. Follow the documentary to find out how Joe gets on and maybe you will be inspired to follow Joe's example.


Juicer Machine

If you're looking for a juicer to purchase, it's worth getting one that is good quality so it won't brake after a few uses.

One that can be recommended is the Sage by Heston Blumenthal Nutri Juicer BJE410UK and will be featured in the documentary on Channel 5.

Product Details (taken from Debenhams website)

• Easy cleaning
• HWD: 43 x 39 22 cm
• Warranty: 2 Years repair or replacement with 5 year motor warranty
• 1200w
• Material: Chromed base
• Brushed metal finish
• With bigger 84mm chute for juicing bigger fruits and veggies
• Extracts up to 70% of the nuturients from the fruit
• Long lasting titanium blades
• Dual speed for hard and soft fruits and veggies