All health articles
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Opinion‘I have seen the ‘boom of the shroom’ on social media but are mushrooms really a safe choice?'
Nutritionist Clare Backhouse considers the mushrooms that have been found to support the body against all sorts of health issues such as inflammation, viruses, tumour growth, fungal overgrowth, pathogenic bacteria, hormone imbalance, and even stress.
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ArticleMenopause - a whole-body experience
Mid-life specialist Jo Ibbott explains how the brain is affected during menopause
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ArticleLooking after your emotional health as a mother
Joy A Mead invites you to go on a journey to discover more about how past traumas may have affected you, so that you can be the healthiest version of yourself
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ArticleIt’s not you, it’s perimenopause
As midlife specialist Jo Ibbott takes over the menopause column, she unpacks the confusion around this significant life event
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ArticleIt’s time for your health MOT
Bukky Ayoade believes that summer is the perfect time to look more closely at those all-important numbers such as blood pressure and blood glucose level
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Opinion‘A broken ankle taught me about the goodness and closeness of God’
Author Sara Hagerty asks: ’What if your greatest weaknesses - the areas of your life you resent the most, the places where you feel the most overextended and unfulfilled - are your doorway to rich intimacy with God? What if your limitations were, in fact, your greatest gift?’
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OpinionAs a Christian, I am glad that AstraZeneca has taken their vaccine off the market
Former midwife Laura Brett says she has been called an ‘anti-vaxxer’ and ‘conspiracy theorist’. Here she explains how asking questions led to her personal conviction that no one should have been pressured into taking the Covid-19 vaccine.
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ArticleThe A-Z on pelvic health
Bukky Ayoade explains what happens to the pelvic floor during perimenopause and menopause, and gives advice on how to avoid uncomfortable symptoms
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ArticleWe need to start talking about young-onset dementia
Janet Wyatt is the director of JW Care Group, one of the only care providers in the country specialising in young-onset dementia. She shares her story with us and the wisdom she’s gleaned through over 30 years devoted to dementia sufferers
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ArticleIs the Government finally prioritising women’s health?
Find out how the newly released UK Government’s Women’s Health Strategy 2024 positively affects women experiencing menopause
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ArticleUtilising yoga during Lent
In this edited extract from Church of Scotland minister Pauline Steenbergen’s book How to Embody Lent in 29 Yoga Postures she explains how she came to practise yoga, why she teaches it now and introduces some of the poses
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ArticleHowever you choose to live, live well
Veronica Zundel explains what she believes the term ‘lifestyle’ means
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OpinionCéline Dion has been diagnosed with Stiff Person Syndrome. How does this kind of chronic illness affect women?
Author Jo Sheringham shares her experience of developing an autoimmune condition, and the lessons God is teaching her as she lives with the disability.
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ArticleRemembering we are ‘fearfully and wonderfully made’
In our new column on the menopause, Bukky Ayoade looks at how prayer and meditation can help women tackle symptoms
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ArticleUnderstanding the menopause
As she personally juggles perimenopause with work, family life and church leadership, Claire Musters reports on a conference organised by the Kyria Network to help women understand what still - despite the media coverage it has been given in recent years - appears to be a taboo subject
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Article‘I can get you a six-pack, but I’m far more interested in getting you into heaven!’
Coach Estelle Wallace partners with Jesus to teach people to approach their wellness holistically
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ArticleEating disorders don’t take a break at Christmas
Hope Virgo urges us to take time among the festivities of the season to be more mindful of those around us and the struggles they may have
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ArticleWalking free of shame and stigma in pregnancy and beyond
Hope Virgo asserts that parents suffering from mental ill-health really need the Church to step up and provide support
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ArticleMission & burnout
Author Ann-Louise Graham looks at how we can stay in ministry without going under
