DeMontfort Healthy Living

Tips for Choosing Ladies Summer Swimwear

Elaine from Green & Brown provides tips to help you select the correct swimwear for your body shape

• Recognise your shape and choose the best swimwear to celebrate your body

• Buy the right size – this often means going up a size or two from your usual dress size for comfort and fit

• Don’t base your choice on what you’ve seen models or celebrities wearing in magazines – try everything on and make sure it works for you

• Decide what you feel most comfortable wearing, whether its one pieces items or bikinis etc

• If you like tankinis, beware: if you have a shapely waist, the top of the tankini will keep moving up and sitting in your waist, not along the top of your bottoms it should – you’ll be pulling it down all day!

• Choose swimwear with under wiring to support your bust

• Choose a one piece with draping or ruching across the stomach if you are conscious about your tummy

• Look out for swimwear with support panels for different parts of the body for extra confidence

• When you first arrive on holiday, wearing brown will help you to look like you already have some colour

• Leave your white swim wear until later in the holiday once you’ve got a tan and really show it off

• Enjoy bright colours in the sunshine – choose vibrant shades and patterns, the summer is the time to really love those colours

• Use sarongs or little beach skirts if you feel self conscious of walking around with your bottom or legs on show

• But above all, choose what you feel comfortable in and that you feel you can walk along a beach or a round a pool in quite happily – if you feel confident you can wear anything well!

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Weight Loss Without Dieting – FREE 1 day Course with Jess Robbins

Transforming your relationship with food for life

Join Jess Robbins for her forthcoming course

“Weight Loss Without Dieting”.

Date: Saturday 10th July 2010

Venue: 4th Floor, Sycamore House, Baltic Street West, London. EC1Y 0UR

Registration: From 9:30am

Seminar Starts: 10am

Ends: 4pm

Nearest Tube/Rail Stations:Barbican (5mins) Old Street (10mins)

Please bring: A pen, any special requirements such as snacks, or money for lunch and snacks, etc

if required. It’s advisable to wear layers of clothing and bring a sweater so that you can add or remove

layers depending on the temperature in the room so you’ll stay comfortable.

Other info:

Water, Tea and Coffee and refreshments will be available throughout the day. You’ll have an hour to

go for lunch around 1pm and there are numerous places to buy really good food in the surrounding

area. You can always bring a packed lunch if you prefer. We have a fridge but no microwave as yet.

What about my free stuff?

You will be handed your copy of “How to Lose Weight Without Dieting” and your workbook when you

arrive.

Early start:

I know it’s Saturday and it’s an early start! We have a lot to get through and I want to make sure you

get your pound of flesh from me, so please be as prompt as you can for a 10am start.

What’s Covered?

The Facts about weight loss

The Methodology behind Losing Weight Without Dieting

The behaviours that hold you back

The beliefs you hold you back and how to change them

The habits of naturally slim people

Powerful Goal Setting techniques

Techniques to create body confidence and happiness.

Jess looks forward to seeing you on the 10th July 2010 from 9:30am for registration.

Jessica Robbins Companies ltd

Phone: 0800 083 8013

Importance of Enzymes

Enzymes are proteins made in our cells that control chemical reactions.  We need enzymes for lots of different biological functions in our body.  For instance our food is digested successfully by digestive enzymes, but what is of mayor importance is the distinction between ‘live’ food where enzymes are present and ‘dead’ food where enzymes are in such minimal amounts or completely killed off by processing, as discussed by Dr Tim O’ Shea

Sugar is sugar is sugar!

“All human nutritional needs can be met in full without having to take a single spoonful of white or brown or raw sugar.’

The late Dr. John Yudkin – Sweet and Dangerous, Wyden, 1972,

Queens College, London

We all know that too much sugar is really bad for our health.  As a result of this there are lots of ‘natural’ sugar products available to buy in food stores, health food stores and on the internet. With so much choice what do you choose?

Our bodies need sugar in the form of glucose, especially our brain, which needs glucose to function properly. Sucrose is a disaccharide which is two sugars that is broken down into two simple sugars, glucose and fructose. Glucose in our blood provides us with energy.  There are different sugars depending on the food we eat for example fructose is the main sugar in fruits, maltose, a sugar in grain like barley and lactose a sugar found in milk.

One of the sugars which have been heralded as one to replace ‘white poison’  or otherwise known, white table sugar or sucrose… is Agave (ah gah vay).  Sometimes agave is referred to as a syrup or nectar and it has a similar taste to honey but not as thick. Without a doubt agave is a much better option than artificial sweeteners which should be avoided at all costs – the clue is in the name artificial!

Agave is a plant which looks like a cactus and can be found in desert areas in places like Mexico. When the agave plant is harvested the sap is extracted and then heated at a low temperature at which point the carbohydrates are broken down into sugars.  Agave is available in both light and dark, the darker it is the less time it has been heated and filtrated.

Peter Pure from Raw Food Party asks the question is Agave good for you?

• Sugar is sugar is sugar is sugar
• Sugar ages you
• It is the cause of immune system crashes
• It is an anti-nutrient
• It rots your teeth
• It’s causes diabetes
• Sugar ferments your blood cells
• Sugar is food for candida, cancer, viruses, bacteria, yeasts, and mould

There are many people suffering with sugar addiction, some people are aware of this others are not.  If someone ‘gives up’ sugar for whatever reason, they are only eliminating spoons of ‘visible’ sugar on breakfast cereal, or in tea or coffee but there are so many foods, including natural foods such as fruit which contain a form of sugar. Processed foods have so much sugar that we now have a sugar crisis in our health service in the form of type 2 diabetes and an assortment of degenerative diseases.

Peter suggests ‘Many people will want us to believe that this and that new form of sugar is okay. That is not the case. Even honey, by far the best of all sugars, needs to be limited. Dates and fruits too for that matter’

My experience is that people make incredible health breakthrough’s for themselves just by getting off the main sugar culprits – all grains and grain products, bread, pasta, cornflakes, rice, barley, spelt, quinoa, beans, lentils, corn, potatoes and refined foods (preferably dried fruit too).

Why grains and beans/lentils first? Simple – you probably wouldn’t eat 2 bowls of honey in one go, but you might eat 2 bowls of rice (for example).

Sugar in all it’s forms is just a part of a transitional diet as people get off their sugar addictions (with a few rare exceptions of athletes who burn a lot of sugar).

The only exception to all of this, if there is any magic “sugar” is stevia – which is a herb that taste’s sweet but is not sugar.’

Stevia (stee v ah) or sweet herb, harvested from places such as South America and Asia as an alternative sweetener can be purchased as a lplant, liquid or powder.  Japanese people have been using stevia successfully for many years and they don’t have the same health and weight problems as we have in western culture, unless of course they eat a western diet!  Stevia is much sweeter than sugar so you don’t use or need too much of it and as it is a natural herbal sweetener.

Another natural sugar alternative is Xylotil, which looks and tastes exactly like sugar and does not have that horrid aftertaste associated with so many chemical sweeteners. Xylotil has fewer calories and carbohydrates than sugar and as a result it is slowly absorbed in the body and does not cause an increased rush of insulin so is better for anyone suffering with diabetes.  Xylotil can be used in cooking to replace refined white sugar but like all sugar you need to identify how much sugar you are consuming in your diet, especially all hidden sugar which piles on the pounds, empty calories and over time makes you ill.

A New Prime Minister in U.K.

Today in the U.K. we have a new young Prime Minister, David Cameron. Last night David and his lovely wife Samantha entered number 10 Downing Street as new residents.

David is the youngest prime minister in nearly 200 years at the age of 43 and successor to Gordon Brown, who resigned as prime minister and leader of the Labour Party.

Having formed a ‘proper and full coalition’ with Nick Clegg, leader of the Liberal Democrats what will this mean for the health and wealth of the British people and all those residing in the UK?

With uncertainty about policies and ‘combined’ manifestos, especially tax, how will this affect the increasing demands our health service?  Will we see a government more pro-active in improving the health of the nation, getting people in employment healthy and happy in their place of work? Will the provision be made to aid people back to work from being off sick to add to the stability of the country? What help will be provided for those who care for the sick and those in need? Will we have any money for research and development with regard to improving nutrition, health and wellbeing? Health is wealth but to what extent will this be embraced by our new coalition government?

What are your thoughts?

The Real Food Festival – London

The Real Food Festival in Earls Court,  London is one of the UK’s biggest ethically and sustainably produced food celebrations, with chefs, producers, suppliers from all over the world and an array of different food and drink available to buy or sample at cookery demonstrations and workshops.

Natural Living for Mind Body and Soul

Natural Living is about promoting events and lifestyles in tune with having wisdom and knowledge.  By learning from others, you achieve your full unique potential, living as nature intended.

‘Natural Living is about attuning with the natural forces that shape our Universe and being the change we want to see in others. It’s about feeling well and being well and recognising the beauty and wonder that is the individual human being, and our connection to every other living thing’.

U.K. General Practitioner Sickness Certificates Have Changed

An HR Perspective – Carol Scott

In the U.K. as from 6 April 2010, GPs are  issuing “fit notes” instead of the traditional sick notes.   Fit notes (Statement of Fitness) permit a doctor to say either that an employee is not fit for work as in the past, or that an employee is not fit enough to carry out all his/her duties but is fit enough to carry out some work or lighter duties.   The doctor then has space to make suggestions. It is worth remembering too that the pink certificates are issued when the GP has not seen the employee in person.

It has yet to be seen how often doctors will use this new option as usually requests for a medical report from a GP on an employee’s likelihood of returning to work and ability to do their old job, usually results in a response that the GP is not qualified to make a decision.   The GP may ask the employee ‘do you work with heavy machinery’ to which an employee could reply ‘yes’ even if their role is only to push a button on that heavy machinery.   Recently a GP signed a lorry driver as fit to return to work on ‘light duties’.   Quite what ‘light duties’ comprise of for a person driving an HGV (Heavy Duty Vehicle) full time, is anyone’s guess.

Source:  Carol H. Scott, HR and Business Consulting Ltd
www.carolhscott.net

Worker Dead at Desk for Five Days?

Anyone who lives in New York tell me this is not a true report – if so we need to think seriously about health and well-being in your  office environment!