Posts by Nurse Helen Masters

All your personal fitness, exercise and diet questions are answered by an experienced fitness instructor. This week, Mel explains why a Keep the Doctor Away member weighs more but looks…

Health, fitness and weightloss blogs can be fun, informative, inspiring and compelling, but searching through the rif-raff to find the ones you’ll identify with can be exhausting. That’s why we’ve…

It may be a bit early to be making resolutions for 2008, but with the launch of boutique boot camp NuBeginnings you’ll find your post-Christmas detox deliciously different. Based in…

Fish oil has been well established as a treatment to reduce the pain associated with rheumatoid arthritis and could even protect against heart disease. Roman Bystrianyk investigates. Rheumatoid arthritis (RA)…

What is raw milk? Raw milk is the term commonly associated with untreated or unpasteurised milk. The raw milk trend stems from the US, with trendy Californians and New Yorkers…

Stop Smoking Tips: How Hard is it to Stop Smoking? Nicotine is a very addictive drug and people usually try to quit two or three times, or more, before they…

Your body shape could be increasing your chances of diabetes, heart disease and more. Throw away your scales and get out a tape measure. Scientists suggest that the important variable…

Breast Cancer Advice: How Common is Breast Cancer? Breast cancer is currently the most common cancer in the UK among women. Every year, 44,000 people are diagnosed with breast cancer,…