Calm Your Beans

This the month of October was branded ‘Stoptober’ by the government in an initiative intended to encourage people to give up smoking. All 12 months of the year however are good for stopping smoking. Stopping smoking is hard. This is for a number of reasons, one of which is just how addictive substance nicotine is. [...]

Every day, your heart beats 100,000 times and can pump about 23,000 litres of blood around your body. Believe it or not, that doesn’t even begin to scratch the surface on all the amazing things that the human heart can do. Provided, of course, it’s well taken care of. The importance of maintaining your heart [...]

The World’s Biggest Coffee Morning has kicked off and is looking to raise money to help support those living with cancer. The Macmillan Cancer Support fundraiser is one of the biggest fundraising events in the UK and helped to raise over £10 million last year. This year they are hoping to do even better and [...]

When our cars get over three years old we have to take them in to be checked. The same is true of our bodies when we get towards the end of our third decades. The mid to late 20s are a time when a lot of problems can begin to rear their head. Often getting [...]

With it recently having been National Cancer Survivors Day on the 3rd of June it is a great time to give Cancer awareness a boost and we thought blogging about educating children on what Cancer is and what living with Cancer means is a great place to start… We have gathered some resources that we [...]

Hello and welcome to another round up of events and ideas that are taking place this month. Hopefully with the summer coming in we will be able to get out that little bit more and enjoy some of the outdoor events taking place this month. However, if things continue to be decidedly grey and dull [...]

Alternative health treatments can be used to treat all kinds of health problems, let’s take a look at the various treatments and which one may suit you… For some of us with persistent medical problems or health complaints conventional medicine may not be able to offer a solution. Many people across the world sing the [...]

So I finally finished my last Easter egg (boo!). I had amassed a rather large collection over the Easter period which is why I’m only finishing my last one now. This is mostly down to every major supermarket having awesome deals that I couldn’t resist. Who can argue with 3 for the price of 1 [...]

Now that the clocks have finally moved forward, we can say with relief that spring is here at last. For most, the coming of better weather and more daylight coincides with extra motivation to get things done – especially in terms of your health. In part, it’s a matter of simple vanity – summer is, [...]

Many of us will have approached the New Year with a driving force to make it better than 2011. This may be achieved through a new attitude or renewed optimism for the 2012. So, many of us will have made resolutions to make ourselves better people over the coming year, here at CYB thought it [...]