JournalLive - Lifestyle - Healthy Living

South Shields mum's journey to happiness through exercise

JournalLive — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:30:00 GMT

LOCKED in a world of self-loathing, Andrea Pearce looked in the mirror and didn’t recognise the person staring back.

Expert advice: Beat the blues by getting active

JournalLive — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

THE festive season may be a fading memory and those New Year resolutions no more than a guilty reminder of good intentions for many of us.

Health MOT: Gemma Graham, account manager at OPR

JournalLive — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

GEMMA Graham, 27, is an account manager at multi-award winning public relations and social media agency OPR in Newcastle.

The CHEK Approach to Health – The Breath Reigns Supreme

JournalLive — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:30:00 GMT

I HAVE previously written about my experience working with the CHEK approach to health for the North East Journal and The Journal of The Bowen Therapy Professional Association.

Exercise helps County Durham mum in battle against depression

JournalLive — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:30:00 GMT

YOU don’t wear your pants on the outside of your trousers. That’s a saying Michelle Holmes likes to remember as she struggles with what’s often described as Superwoman syndrome.

Wrekenton man Henry Mollett tells how diet change saved his life

JournalLive — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 08:30:00 GMT

BEING told you have serious problems with your health can be difficult for you and your loved ones to cope with, so what if you were told that your own bad habits were to blame?

Expert advice: Now's the best time to change

JournalLive — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

SO JANUARY 1 has come and gone ... did you make any resolutions for the New Year? Go on a diet perhaps, lose some weight, and maybe even start exercising.

Your Nutrition Blueprint: Food and Biochemical Individuality

JournalLive — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 08:30:00 GMT

YOUR Nutrition Blueprint is a preemptive strike at avoiding the pitfalls whilst making positive changes to your diet and nutrition.

DNA weight management plan explored

JournalLive — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 08:30:00 GMT

KEEN photographer Joan Thirlaway bought The Journal on that morning in October because it featured one of her pictures; an early-morning snap of Rydal Water just after sunset.

Taking the boredom out of losing the pounds

JournalLive — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

SO here we are, 19 days into 2012. The euphoria of the festive season is way behind us and we are now languishing in what I always think of as that new year no-man’s land waiting for spring to spring and the next big bank holiday: Easter.

Expert advice: Get some exercise into your everyday life

JournalLive — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

WITH the arrival of 2012, the Olympics and Lord Coe will never be far from the headlines and, as a result, all the coverage will highlight the significance of exercise.

Blyth man makes dramatic changes in body and mind

JournalLive — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 08:30:00 GMT

STARTING a new venture in the middle of a recession takes some guts. But since starting regular 6am bootcamps, heating engineer Darren Young has gained such a positive new frame of mind that he says it’s helped him launch his own heating and plumbing business.

How to get sunshine in the winter months

JournalLive — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

IN an ideal world I would be writing this column sitting on some sunny beach in Australia or New Zealand.

Healthy recipe: Salmon Garbure

JournalLive — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

GARBURE is a thick French soup or stew with cabbage and other vegetables; a meal in itself. We serve it on the a la carte menu here at Food Social with scallops, and it’s one of our most popular seasonal dishes.

Cooking up a healthy new year

JournalLive — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

SO, were you one of the millions who eventually woke up on New Year’s Day nursing a massive hangover, having rashly resolved never to drink again at the stroke of midnight but then carried on into the wee small hours?

Use your leftovers to lift the spirits

JournalLive — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

WELL, Christmas is over for another year even if the festivities are set to rumble on for a few more days yet. But the vestiges of the big day will hang around for a while longer.

Richard Hunter's sporting challenge

JournalLive — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Richard Hunter has represented his country on the international athletics stage. Now at the age of 41 he has set himself two new sporting challenges – to turn his Run Northumberland series into one of the UK’s biggest family race events, and make sure he is one step ahead of his young son. Jane Hall reports.

Functional Health and Performance - Finding your Nutrition Blueprint

JournalLive — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 08:30:00 GMT

WHEN talking about healthy eating and nutrition in the New Year, it has almost become a cliché to warn against fad diets and dangerous quick-fix detox-ing.

Cooking up a healthy Christmas dinner

JournalLive — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

AS a child, I always viewed Christmas lunch as a rude and unwarranted interruption to the festive proceedings.

How to avoid piling on the pounds over Christmas time

JournalLive — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

YOU don’t need me to tell you that it’s easy to pile the pounds on over the Christmas period. In fact, the average person adds 5lb on the scales which I think is a pretty damming statistic, especially as the North East is already the second most obese place in Europe.