Health and Wellbeing
I have always loved being outside. I grew up in a house skirted by woodland; our garden backed right up onto the treeline. An inordinate amount of my childhood and teens were spent wandering around this wood …
Health and wellbeing
Forget calorie counting and love fat!
Are you tired of eating tiny portions, counting calories and eating bland food every time you try and lose weight? How would you like to hear about a diet where you can eat bacon and eggs for breakfast, Boojum for …
Blood, sweat and fears: the P word
Research into female athletes’ health raises awareness and questions concerning the often unacknowledged and ‘taboo’ topic in women’s sport – the menstrual cycle
Health and Wellbeing
“We conducted a survey and we found that 55% of elite level athletes say that their menstrual cycle affects their training and performance,” explains Georgie Bruinvels, PhD student at St Mary’s and UCL. Bruinvels is currently researching …
Learning to manage my mental health
Dáire O’Driscoll opens up about his struggle with anxiety
Health and Wellbeing
“It was only later that I realised all of these moments of insomnia, heart palpitations, shortness of breath and paranoia were panic attacks”
Statistics about mental health always seemed so abstract to me. The leading cause of …
The F Word
In light of Body and Soul week, Jennifer Brereton argues that there is nothing more gorgeous than confidence.
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“There is nothing more gorgeous than confidence”
Just like the F word that may have come to mind when you first read this title, the F word that I am concerned with is also just about everywhere: …