February 25th is the start of Eating Disorder (ED) awareness week, affecting men and women of all shapes and sizes. We caught up with Laura Phelan, founder of Phelan Well, to get a better insight into a cause close…
At the end of 2018, if you’d have told me that I’d be spending the first 3 Sundays of the New Year voluntarily purging into a bucket, with frog juice in my arm – all in the name of health,…
Faith was my biggest theme last year, and this year it’s Focus. I’ve re-published a piece by my favourite German Blogger Niklas Göke who you can follow on Medium: My theme for 2019 is ‘focus.’ Focus on the work…
Holistic: adjective; Philosophy: Characterised by the belief that the parts of something are intimately interconnected and explicable only by reference to the whole Medicine: Characterised by the treatment of the whole person, taking into account mental and social factors, rather than just…
‘I don’t love science – I want to know what heals people’ – Ted Kaptchuk, Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard and Director of the Harvard-wide programme in Placebo Studies and the Therapeutic Encounter The…
The month of ‘Stoptober’ – a Public Health campaign that encourages smokers to give up for 28 days of the month, apparently making them five times more likely to quit. However going cold turkey doesn’t always work for everyone.…
Tell us a little about your background and your role within Good Zing? I am the Founder of Good Zing, currently the fastest growing health and wellbeing platform in the UK. We are a user-generated content platform that engages…
Forgotten Spices of the Archipelago ‘Jamu’ is most commonly found on the backs of traditional Kain Kebaya-wearing Javenese women. Transported via bamboo baskets, these young-middle aged women travel from villages to towns throughout Indonesia, shifting supplies of their local…
Clothing materials: what they mean, where they come from, are they ethical and will they be kind to your skin? From fast to slow fashion – it can be difficult to keep up with the speed at which the…
It’s been said that, ‘plant ladies are the new cat ladies’ and the rise in Green Fingers can only be a good thing. Having created ever-expanding concrete caves for ourselves, we are now learning that not only is the…
We all have that enviable friend who’s living in crop tops despite eating like a trash can, whilst we’re slightly soft around the edges even with the consistent effort to live like a rabbit. Often our metabolism takes the…
