Balance the Body

Is Your Current Lifestyle Making You Ill?

Are your daily lifestyle choices setting you up for illness in later life, or even worse are they impacting your life right now? Take our quiz today and find out! 15 Questions, 70 points, what's your health score?

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Lifestyle Practice Three – Get Physically Active

Lifestyle Practice Three – Get Physically Active

Today we are going to look at lifestyle practice three which is to get physically active. In article one we started to look at the Lifestyle Practices essential for a healthy lifestyle, in two we looked at the importance of drinking water and three the need to sleep 8 hours nightly. These are ...
Cut Out Eating Animal Products

Cut Out Eating Animal Products

Would you cut out eating animal products if you knew how greatly your health would benefit? Eating meat and other animal products has been linked to heart disease and cancer among other things – it’s small wonder that many people are wondering whether a vegan diet might be more healthy. For many the ...
Why Should You Exercise First Thing In The Morning?

Why Should You Exercise First Thing In The Morning?

So why should you exercise first thing in the morning? Being active is so important to your health. It needs to be ingrained into your daily routine. If you want to be living a healthy lifestyle then you need to be exercising. Some form of physical activity is required. The good news? Something as simple ...
One Eyed Sandwich

One Eyed Sandwich

I wrote a blog the other day called the One eyed blogger . Well today’s post is on the same theme, well sort of. It’s to do with one eye and in fact it’s something that matters to me and makes me smile. My dad was always pretty hopeless in the ...
5 Useful Ways to Relieve PMS (Premenstrual Syndrome)

5 Useful Ways to Relieve PMS (Premenstrual Syndrome)

Millions of women cope with Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS) with little more than painkillers and a little extra rest. However, there are some women who experience severe and long-lasting symptoms that can bring their daily life to a halt. If you are one of those women, there are five relatively simple ways ...
Calculate Your Basic Weight And Measurements

Calculate Your Basic Weight And Measurements

Apologies - our weights & measurements tool is currently being upgraded to work with our new website theme so we've included the manual way to calculate these measurements. The tool will be back online soon. Thank you for your patience. Your first step to find out if you are at a healthy ...

Top Five Amazing Benefits of Walking

In order to become more active and increase your fitness along the way, it is not compulsory to join a gym and become a slave to the routine. Indeed, for most casual exercisers, becoming a member of a gym can seem a little intimidating. As with most things in life, the ...
Every Cloud Has A Silver Lining

Every Cloud Has A Silver Lining

We surely have all heard the saying, 'every cloud has a silver lining.' No doubts throughout the tumultuous period of my life after 2008 and through all those times of personal struggles this expression has helped me through. Here am I trying to get my head around writing a blog because it's ...
Do You Eat Right

Do You Eat Right

Do you eat right and does it actually matter? Of course it does because eating right will help you to become healthier? But so many people struggle to know whether they eat right, I know this because frequently I’m asked ‘do I eat right?’. Today I want to look at eating healthily. ...
Starting A Fitness Program To Lose Weight

Starting A Fitness Program To Lose Weight

Are you thinking about starting a fitness program to lose weight? After all you know how essential it is if you want to be living a healthier lifestyle. A fitness program is one of the best things you can do to lose weight, but it is also essential for good health. The biggest ...