Category: Health
Seven ways to exercise effectively without going to the gym
Let's be honest, there are a lot of things we'd rather spend our hard earned cash on than a membership to the gym. Nobody likes going to the gym, so its easy to resent having to pay a monthly fee just to keep yourself healthy -- especially if you don't have any budget gyms nearby.…
Joylent review: day 10 and conclusions – Holly #HealthAndFitnessWeek
Shiny's Holly and Sadie are doing 10 days on Joylent, the EU equivalent of Soylent, which is a powdered complete food for humans. Find out more about the Joylent review project here, and read Holly and Sadie's write-ups of days 1 to 3 here, days 4 to 6 here, and days 7 to 9 here.…
Joylent review: CONCLUSIONS – Sadie #HealthAndFitnessWeek
Shiny's Holly and Sadie are doing 10 days on Joylent, the EU equivalent of Soylent, which is a powdered complete food for humans. Find out more about the Joylent review project here, and read Holly and Sadie's write-ups of days 1 to 3 here, days 4 to 6 here, and days 7 to 9 here.…
Is online advice actually useful, or just an ego trip? #HealthandFitnessWeek
A decade ago, almost everyone I knew on the internet had a blog. Now everywhere I look, I see a new advice column, vlog, or podcast popping up. Half the people I know want to start a new one; the other half is addicted to some self-appointed expert’s words of wisdom. Even award-winning novelist Haruki…
A calorie-tracking app gave me an eating disorder #HealthAndFitnessWeek
We spoke to Sarah (not her real name), a 23-year-old woman from the Midlands who found herself suffering from bulimia after she started using an app to track her calorie intake. Here's what she told us (some details changed to protect Sarah's identity). It was on Christmas Day that I knew I had a problem.…
Joylent review: days 7 to 9 #HealthAndFitnessWeek
Shiny's Holly and Sadie are doing 10 days on Joylent, the EU equivalent of Soylent, which is a powdered complete food for humans. Find out more about the project here, and read Holly and Sadie's write-ups of days 1 to 3 here, and 4 to 6 here. Holly - day 7 I started today with…
Joylent review: days 4 to 6 #HealthAndFitnessWeek
Shiny's Holly and Sadie are doing 10 days on Joylent, the EU equivalent of Soylent, which is a powdered complete food for humans. Find out more about the project here, and read Holly and Sadie's write-ups of days 1 to 3 here. Holly - day 4 After a disastrous day yesterday (I ended up eating…
Joylent review: days 1 to 3 #HealthAndFitnessWeek
Shiny's Holly and Sadie are doing 10 days on Joylent, the EU equivalent of Soylent, which is a powdered complete food for humans. Find out more about the project here. The beginning Our Joylent arrived as a giant cardboard box full of mostly-unmarked plastic bags of powder. Yes, it looked like a shipment of drugs.…
Joylent review: 10 days of eating nutritionally-balanced powdered food for #HealthAndFitnessWeek
You might have heard of Soylent, the nutritionally-balanced, complete food for humans that's been making a bit of a stir in the US. Opinions vary from "this is the future of food" to "you've ruined everything that's good about being alive," and like everyone else, we were intrigued. So for 10 days, Editor Holly and…
7 ‘bad’ things that can actually be good for you #HealthandFitnessWeek
Every day brings a new health study about something else we need to avoid if we want to live to 90, and they're frequently things we used to think were OK: jogging, red meat, even VITAMINS, for goodness' sake. And who knows what else we'll be warned off in future, or whether people who eschew…
