In sport, you can tell how you or in a team sport, your team is traveling by the scoreboard. It’s not to say that winning is everything, and you can certainly enjoy playing sport for the enjoyment of playing sport. That’s a good thing. But if you want to...
Is the season of Black Friday sales. It’s interesting. Black Friday hails from the USA, the day after Thanksgiving, which we’ve had very recently. And like a lot of American trends, if you like, they do tend to spread around the world. It is interesting....
A large number of people have pets and love their pets, and there’s a lot of work that shows health benefits of owning a pet. Now, once again, it’s not a treatment for any specific condition; it’s part of enjoyment of life. Most of the attention has...
If Christmas did not exist it would need to be invented. Perfectly timed at the end of the year, it allows many people worldwide to celebrate in some way, shape or form. This may be a formal religious celebration or simply a catch-up with friends and family. Given...
The importance of sleep cannot be overstated, as human beings spend more time sleeping than engaging in any other activity, yet many still neglect its crucial role in overall health. Human beings spend more time being asleep than anything else. It is estimated that at...
Let us start with the part we can all agree on – the average weight in most countries has increased over the last 40 years, albeit the number of those with serious weight issues is much less than the numbers quoted. This is because although the Body Mass Index (BMI)...