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When you turn down sex, you often say to your partner that you’re just not “in the mood” but is there only one mood in which you have to be for sex? No matter the state of your emotional wellness, we say there’s a sex move for every mood,…

One sexual health problem that always seems centred on women is that of achieving better orgasms. Although men do need adequate stimulation and attention before climax, their process is pretty much fool-proof in this area. We, on the other…

When you talk about protecting your sexual health, it generally involves another person. Not only could your wellness be at risk to sexually transmitted infections (STIs) but you’ve likely caught the disease from a sexual partner, meaning…

Once you reach 50, you have to work harder to take care of your wellbeing and guard it against major health concerns. However, incorporating a few simple, wellness principles into your lifestyle can help you to eat healthily, stay fit and…

If you’ve set yourself a few fitness goals for 2014, you’re probably asking yourself “which workout is the best?” However, there’s no easy answer to that question, as there are many factors involved in getting fit and enhancing your…

When you think of work, “optimism” might not be the first word that comes to mind, but it plays a huge role in your corporate wellness, and overall wellbeing. In his book Learned Optimism, world renowned psychologist Martin Seligman notes…

A nice, steaming bowl of soup is good for anyone’s wellbeing during winter, but soup can also be greatly beneficial to your weight loss. With all the fresh and healthy ingredients that go into homemade soups, you can get all the nutritional…

Is it me, or are environmental wellness articles always really depressing? With all the rising temperatures, acidifying oceans and suffering wildlife, it doesn’t so much inspire you to action as it does make you want to crawl into bed and…

You may not think your posture has a great influence on your wellbeing, but there are many benefits to walking tall and sitting pretty. Not only does the right posture help your weight loss wellness by making you look 10 pounds lighter,…

For most women on a diet, carbs are public enemy No. 1. As much as pasta, bread and cake is helpful for your sense of emotional wellbeing, they get in the way of your weight loss. That said, does this mean every carb will make you fat? Of…

As the beauty editor for Vogue, Sigourney Cantelo has learnt a thing or two about anti-ageing wellness. However, after becoming pregnant, Cantelo decided to put her wellness wallet where her mouth is, and try going chemical-free with her…

Winter weather is hardly an incentive to get you working on your fitness levels, but wellness experts assert that getting out and active in the cold can work wonders for your wellbeing. Much in the same way that a dose of fresh air helps to…

There are a lot of things that get in the way of your corporate wellness – deadlines, work-life balance and nagging colleagues to name but a few. However, one thing that really takes its toll on wellbeing is workplace bullying; potentially…

When you’re working out and boredom strikes, what do you do? You don’t want to put your fitness on pause, but maybe you do put it on the back-burner and distract yourself by plugging in your IPod or chatting to your neighbour on the next…

You set your New Year’s wellness resolutions with the best of intentions but, let’s be serious, when are you going to have time to fit them in? Sure you want to lose weight, take care of your wellbeing, or up your fitness levels but now…

When it comes to your urinary wellness, you may have heard that cranberry juice can give you a boost. True, cranberry juice can benefit your sexual health, and overall wellbeing, in a number of ways, but that’s not to say that you should…

Sex has a bit of a reputation for messing with your emotional health, especially when you’re just not getting what you want. While male sexuality is a little more straightforward, as a woman your sexual wellness is seemingly tied up in a…

When you’re thinking about weight loss wellness, the idea of going to the pool might not appeal. Sure, it’s fine for people who are already skinny, but a workout when you’re wearing nothing more than waterproof underwear? No thanks! Still,…

Coach Stevo, the nutrition and sport psychology consultant at San Francisco CrossFit, recalls, ‘When I was 10 or 11 years old, I got separated from my parents at a national park in Washington. Luckily, I was a Boy Scout and had my trusty…

What New Year’s resolutions did you set this year? Maybe you decided to lose weight, or perhaps protecting your health against smoking habit was on the agenda – but what about stress? Did you resolve to be less stressed in 2014, or is the…

If “getting amazing abs” was high on your list of New Year’s resolutions this year, you may have already started cracking on with a few crunches. However, this may be a waste of time, as there’s more to abdominal wellness than doing just…

As a runner, a lot of the advice you get revolves around increasing your fitness levels, building your endurance or taking care of your own wellbeing, but there’s more to running wellness than going far or beating your personal best. When…

Smoking can cause major health concerns, but people often put off quitting because they’re worried about lesser wellness matters; weight gain. Unfortunately, I’m not here to tell you that you don’t need to worry about weight gain when you…

More than 10% of Iceland is covered by some 300 glaciers, but this may not be the case for long. Every year, the Solheimajokull glacier loses about 11 billion tons of ice a year, making it a key focal point of environmental wellness…

Your kids are often the culprits when it comes to your fragile mental health, but the funny thing is they hit you hardest when they’re no longer around. Whether your children go off to Uni, leave the country or move out to start a new job,…

While some corporate wellness practises have changed over the years, most things have remarkably stayed the same. For years, employers have been told to outsource their wellness promotion, administration and delivery, but does that approach…

Taking care of your wellbeing and preventing health concerns is hard enough 11 months out of the year, but when the holidays roll around? Forget about it! Between the office parties, cosy nights in and Christmas day itself, you’re likely to…

Hollywood isn’t too kind to women, especially when it comes to their age. So many actresses and celebs go through all kinds of treatments and procedures in the name of satisfying Hollywood’s obsession with youth, but there are a few women…

Sometimes stress seems out of your control; there’s always bills to pay, family to look after, work to go to and never enough hours to do it all – but you have more power over stress than your think. In fact, the first step to mental health…

It used to be that implementing an employee wellness programme meant simply putting a few posters up in the office encouraging people to take care of their wellbeing. Some companies may have stretched as far as having a gym in the office,…