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Health and Wellbeing News & Updates

Fairtrade Fortnight continues until the 10th March 2019, during two weeks each year thousands of individuals, companies and groups of people across the Country join together to celebrate and show support for the growers of much of our food. Food is often produced in the poorest Countries across the World and the people who grow it are often exploited and poorly paid,amongst the crops that are grown is chocolate from the cocoa bean, a luxury food taken for granted by for most of us.
Bedrock Furniture, our local Independent Furniture Specialist,moved premises last March and is now well established in its fabulous new showroom. The Family run business has become a prominent feature of the Taunton and Bridgwater business community since it was established 2001 and is now housed its new premises at 93 - 97 Bath Road, Bridgewater. Full contact and sat nav info can be located at:
Fact, two women lose their lives to Cervical Cancer each day, Fact, nine women are diagnosed with Cervical Cancer every day, Fact,75% of Cervical Cancers can be prevented by Cervical Screening i.e. smear tests.
Because obesity is associated with so many life-threatening health conditions it is highly appropriate that concerted action is taken to help people become more aware of the potential risk to their health and well being of being overweight.
Having enjoyed the Christmas and New Year’s parties with fabulous food and festive fizz the time has come to get back to normal and maybe go the extra mile by taking January out and forsaking alcohol. The human body is a fantastic collection of organs that keep us ticking over throughout our lives, however, over-concentration of alcohol can bring about a number of health conditions that are best avoided.
With our Christmas preparation well underway, if not actually completed, the Sunday before the big day is a fine time to get out and enjoy some fresh air and exercise. Walking is an inclusive pastime, so whatever one’s cultural background the Festival of Winter Walks is directed to everyone regardless of their age or background or level of ability. With the Country’s most welcoming countryside, plus our delightful Towns and Cities, we are blessed with plenty of choice, and if you needed another good reason walking is one of the healthiest pursuits and it is free!
Time to let go and move on?
Time to let go and move on?
Getting over a relationship for anyone at any age is never ever going to be easy. You may have started to think about what the future may hold and what you want from this next chapter in your life or that even contemplating the future right now might feel like an impossibility. If you’re still carrying around the emotional baggage of a former relationship, it can be very difficult to stop living in the past.
Anger is an emotion that everyone experiences in life due a vast array of stimulants some people find anger harder to control than others.
More than one million people in Britain may be suffering from constant, crippling headaches because they are taking too many painkillers, experts say. The pills people take to relieve headaches and migraines may be making things much worse, according to the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) in guidance to the health service for England and Wales. As many as one in 50 people suffer continual headaches because of “medication overuse”, NICE reports. The problem begins with taking the odd painkiller for tension headaches or migraines, which usually works. But some people take the pills more and more often, until they are on tablets for more than half the days in a month. NICE says that if this goes on for more than three months the medication ends up causing the problem it is intended to cure.
The Big Bath Sleep-Out
The Big Bath Sleep-Out
Nearly 300 people braved the rain and mud at the Big Bath Sleep-Out on Friday night.
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