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You know how it goes - the sun is shining, flowers blooming, the beach is calling and the kids are playing outside way into the evening. It’s idyll...

For the largest organ in the body, the epidermis sure does come with its own host of conditions, disorders, problems and issues. The skin on the fa...

You would have a tough time finding something more scary than not being able to breathe. We can take it for granted but nothing is more important t...

Back problems seem to be almost on par with death and taxes, particularly as you move past thirty. Whether your job involves heavy lifting or tappi...

  Vitamins and supplements get spruiked pretty heavily as an easy solution to virtually any problem your body might have. You’ve almost certainly s...

We regularly hear the age-old adage spruiked that we shouldn’t judge a book by its cover. Whilst there is unquestionably some wisdom in not basing ...

There is an old saying that pain lets you know you’re alive, and back pain makes you wish you weren’t. Hyperbole? Maybe. However, back pain can be ...

The world is a daunting place at the best of times. If you’re feeling self conscious about your skin, this only gets more frightening. The only goo...

If you have ever suffered from back pain then you know how debilitating it can be. There isn’t one single activity that doesn’t involve your spine ...

We don’t mean to sound unnecessarily bleak here, but the new year heads downhill fast. The heat begins to slip away, and autumn arrives before you ...

There is beauty to every season in life. There is an unmistakable joy that comes with sitting by a fire on a cold winter’s day, but equally, the fi...

You know it well. The glossy cover of the teen magazine bears the image of a perfect-faced girl, a scattering of freckles across her nose, perfect ...

Most people by the age of twenty have suffered some kind of long term injury: a broken arm, a torn ACL, even just a sprained ankle. It can take wee...

It’s the antiseptic solution we’ve all got somewhere in the back of our bathroom cupboards; rarely used, possibly past its use-by date, but instrum...

It’s a quandary we’ve all faced: when the skin care routine is robust (with no signs of decreasing), and the suitcase space for upcoming travel pla...

It’s a question that has probably crossed everyone’s mind at some point, not least of all during the global pandemic we have all just endured in bo...

You may not know much about vitamins and minerals, but almost certainly, you’ve heard about vitamin D. Vitamin D is most closely synonymous with th...

It never fails to shock us that the common cold - so-called because it is so run-of-the-mill, simply so probable, so universal, so trivial - can un...

A quick Google of the words “gut health” yields 1.3 billion results in thirty seconds and the number grows by the day. Not too long ago the notion ...

Balance is really the key. However, it’s not easily achieved. Often, without even realising, we get pulled too far in one direction, throwing us al...

Language is important. The words we use carry weight and a very different meaning can be established with the words we choose. Words and their mean...

If you have ever suffered an injury that has put your ability to exercise on hold, then you will know just how closely related physical and mental ...

Nobody is going to call into question the severity of your broken arm. The disfigured shape, the swelling, the likely obvious way in which you sust...

There are certain illnesses that are discreet. Sure, they may be frustrating, impacting upon your day-to-day routines but they’re your business and...

If there is one thing that you can be sure of with kids in the house, it’s that you’re going to need Dettol. Skinned knees are virtually a daily oc...

Some food for thought: In 2013–14, 1 in 5 (20%) young people aged 11–17 had either high or very high levels of psychological distress (13% and 6.6...

Diet is definitely a dirty word these days - connotations of restriction, yo-yo weight loss, disordered eating and fads - it’s hard to find someone...

Googling “keto diet” gets you four hundred and fourteen million results in 0.4 seconds. One of the most heavily celeb-endorsed diets, on the rise i...

Our bodies have been hurting since the fall of man. Ancient Greeks relieved fever with willow bark, Ancient Egyptians depicted people suffering inj...

You have to admit, the song was a banger. In fact, every song from her 2003 album, The Diary of Alicia Keys has stood the test of time, luring even...

It would come as a surprise to no one that thrush is not the number one most desirable topic of conversation to have around the dinner table. And y...

Being an adult can give you some perspective that can be pretty hard to come by as a young person. When you’re in that phase of adolescence where y...

As a kid, calcium was one of those simple things, that in my mind, I had no shortage of because I consumed an enormous amount of dairy products. Ch...

There are certain universal truths when it comes to health. Basic things that will have a big impact, not just on certain aspects of your health bu...

Dry skin is one of those things that strikes everybody at some stage. Depending upon where you’re located, it might come about as a result of too m...

For a long time, mental health was not something that was spoken about. There are a few reasons for this. Physical injuries and their treatment oft...

We’re told not to judge a book by its cover but if you’ve got no other context, what else are you left with to judge? It’s natural for us to make a...

When I was growing up, there was an advertisement on television for an acne product, where a bunch of adolescents rattled off a series of things th...

It may seem like a simplistic question but the relationship between mental and physical illness is a really complex interplay. If you have ever bee...

There are certain words that even the very mention of them can strike fear into those who hear them. Cold sore has to fall into this category. The ...

We’ve all heard the saying and have likely used it ourselves; “I’ve just got a gut feeling about it.” This saying reflects those moments when somet...

Personality can be difficult to pin down because it essentially comprises all the different aspects that make us who we are. Rather than how we mig...

Like clockwork, April rolls around, and with the change of season, so too comes the blocked-up sinuses, the razor-sharp sore throat, and the endles...

Assuming that you’ve experienced a temperature at some point in your life is not a huge leap, but it is not an illness unto itself. So have you eve...

We are beginning to head into cold and flu season again. The days are getting shorter, the mercury is dropping and all around the country, people a...

There weren’t a whole lot of positives during the Covid years but one of the perks was a virtual disappearance of the cold and flu during that peri...

Here is a little secret which is wildly underappreciated in 2023. Yes, you probably have anxiety at some point in your life. But that doesn’t mean ...

Period pain is genuinely one of the least pleasant things a person can experience. 50% of the population should consider themselves lucky that this...

The mouth can be one of the most frustrating places to experience pain. After all, you need it to breathe, eat and talk. When you shut down the mou...