Coffee and your Health

Date 12 August 2013
Author Ilana Estelle
Drinking coffee has a long history of being seen as bad for your health.  However, recent research now suggests that coffee may not be so bad for us after all. So which is it, good or bad? For most of us, the answer is the health benefits of drinking coffee…
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Sleep deprivation

Date 10 August 2013
Author Ilana Estelle
The latest research on sleep suggests the problems with sleep accounts for difficulties in our relationships. Not only does a lack of sleep have negative consequences on our emotional and physical health, but it also has an impact on how we relate and communicate with each other. We spend our…
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High Blood Pressure

Date 19 July 2013
Author Ilana Estelle
It is far better to have low blood pressure than it is to have high. Known as the silent killer because its symptoms aren’t obvious, around 30% of us in the UK have high blood pressure. If left untreated, high blood pressure can increase the risk of a heart attack…
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Deceiving appearances

Date 17 July 2013
Author Ilana Estelle
Having been told that my blood test results from the Doctor’s surgery were fine, I then received a call from my doctor to run through some of the results. What was fine then wasn’t fine. The doctor explained that the ‘markers’ on my liver function test were elevated, but that…
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CP research findings

Date 8 July 2013
Author Ilana Estelle
Over the years, I have had very little understanding of my digestive problems (neither have my doctors) and what I’ve had to deal with. I have just this weekend been informed that a definitive review in 2012 of 70 individual research papers, has concluded that due to ‘structural abnormalities of…
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The resolve

Date 5 July 2013
Author Ilana Estelle
As children we may sometimes become victims, which if not dealt with can follow us into our adult years. Being a victim as a child is something we continue to be, primarily because we’re often left with little choice, find it difficult to change because we don’t always have the…
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Lowering your cholesterol

Date 27 June 2013
Author Ilana Estelle
We all know that high cholesterol increases our risk of heart disease and heart attacks. Whilst it is possible to reduce cholesterol with medication, we can also make changes to our lifestyle to help reduce it too.  Here are five healthy lifestyle changes that individually and combined can contribute ...
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Social ties and Longevity

Date 16 May 2013
Author Ilana Estelle
According to new research publicised recently, a healthy social life may be as good for your long-term health as not smoking. Social Connections Research  Research was carried out at Brigham Young University and the University of North Carolina, where data was compared from 148 studies on health outcomes and social…
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Iron and its role

Date 9 May 2013
Author Ilana Estelle
Iron is needed for a number of complex processes that continuously take place in the body such as the transportation of oxygen, called haemoglobin. The role of iron Iron is involved in the conversion of blood sugar to energy. The immune system, which is dependent on iron for its efficient functioning and…
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Our priorities

Date 5 May 2013
Author Ilana Estelle
However hard it is to look back at our own lives and feel cross that we missed out on things, it is our family that must be our priority. Often the decisions that were made for us, were based on what our parents expected us to do. Looking back on…
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The task ahead

Date 30 April 2013
Author Ilana Estelle
If like me you’re in the process of working on an exclusion and inclusion diet; not to lose weight, but to find out which foods are making you ill, you have my sympathy. It’s very slow and laborious. We need to be able to plan our life and make decisions…
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Emotions and Heart Health

Date 24 April 2013
Author Ilana Estelle
Did you know that emotional problems in childhood can alter our health in adulthood? Research suggests there is a link between heart disease in middle age and our emotional behaviour traits in children, more so in women. Emotions and Heart Health study The study looked at some 3,600 people who…
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