Ella Steer

You might be pre-empting a blip in your routine during festivities where you’ll be distracted by social events, over indulging in Christmas treats and your physical activity for the week will be wrestling with the wrapping paper. Studies show that the festive period is the most common time to gain weight and weight gained over this period was the hardest to lose. This creates a cycle that is hard to break out of leading to yearly accumulation of weight and metabolic slowdown. When January is...

December isn’t the problem, waiting is. Every year, millions of people hit January feeling heavier, tired and frustrated because they waited for the calendar to change instead of their habits. People feel too busy, too stressed and too tempted to start now and use Christmas and January as an excuse to back out of keeping their body healthy. It may feel rational but it's a self-sabotage loop. The only way to break this cycle is to try something new, go in with a different mindset and change...

14th November marks World Diabetes Day which aims to spread awareness for people living with diabetes. Diabetes is a long-term condition that affects the body by having high blood glucose levels, either because it doesn’t produce enough of the hormone insulin or because the insulin it produces doesn’t work properly. This differentiates the two types of diabetes, with type 1 the body doesn’t produce insulin properly and type 2 the body doesn’t produce enough insulin. 90% of people with...