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Go to Work on an Egg!
Health Tip from Dr Marilyn Glenville’s Health Digest Natural News for Women Over the years, eggs have had bad press, from raising cholesterol to harbouring salmonella. (More studies are showing that the cholesterol in eggs raises our… » Read more 12 January 2012
Annual Check Up / MOT
In many aspects of our lives, the concept behind seeking an annual review is nothing new. For example, we typically seek a health check-up with the dentist, hygienist, optician and GP. We stretch these health checks to something… » Read more 8 December 2011
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
With Christmas fast approaching and the latest Nintendo, Playstation, Xbox or Wii games on Christmas lists everywhere, the incidence of repetitive strain injuries over the holiday period is bound to increase. Commonly associated with repeated finger and… » Read more 8 December 2011
Foam Rolling – Massage for the Masses
May we present the foam roller. The foam roller is a cylindrical foam tube about 6 inches in diameter and available in various densities. It is used to ‘iron out’ tight, sore and or achey muscles by… » Read more 8 December 2011
Body Weight Versus Body Composition
When it comes to slimming down, many of us get very focused on what the bathroom scales are telling us. When it comes to goals, ‘loosing weight’ is something that many of us often strive for. However… » Read more 7 December 2011
Foam Rolling for Tissue Mobility and Centre Oriented Rehabilitation Exercise (CORE)
Creating motivation and compliance for some of the more mundane rehab or prevention exercises can be hard. This makes our job as therapists and conditioning coaches at the drummond clinic more difficult, as our expectations from you the… » Read more 7 December 2011
Performance Benefits with Beetroot Juice
Medieval herbalists wrote about the beneficial properties of beetroot juice. Modern research has since explored much of this ancient science and folk medicine through chemistry and nutritional analysis. Beetroot juice contains an abundance of potassium, phosphorus, calcium,… » Read more 7 December 2011
Get Your Feet Bootfit
AT LAST… the snow is falling in Europe. We can now get excited about our white winter exploits, but remember that as well as the excitement we must get the body prepared for the pounding that we… » Read more 7 December 2011
Use Weights, Lose Weight
When it comes to exercising for weight loss we hear similar stories all the time of people spending endless hours at the gym on the cardio machines (cross-trainer, bike, treadmill or rowing ergo) to burn those unwanted… » Read more 6 December 2011
Looking and Feeling Great This Christmas
Between the day job and planning for Christmas most of us will manage to find a bit of time in the next few weeks to stress about our weight and wonder if we can find any time… » Read more 3 December 2011
