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There are over 2,700 clubs affiliated to the Lawn Tennis Association in the UK. Tennis is one of our favourite team sports, and with more and more people taking it up in the hope...

Forget about simple sugars and complex carbs. These days, carbs are classed according to their glycaemic index, or GI. Here's how it works. Forget about simple sugars and complex...

Swimming is one of the best all-round sports you can do. Here's our guide to getting the most out of it. Swimming is one of the best all-round sports you can do. Here's our guide...

Cycling is an environmentally friendly and ever more popular sport. As well as being green, it's easy, accessible to all and works the whole body. Cycling is an environmentally...

Year after year, walking is becoming ever more popular, with the Lake District and other mountainous areas of the UK becoming increasingly crowded on fine weekends! Year after year...

Expressive therapy is a type of psychotherapy that uses artistic creation to enable people to express, liberate and change themselves. Through painting, music, dance or sculpture...

Psychoanalysis guides a patient in the exploration of the subconscious to aid better self-knowledge. Training Check that a therapist who claims to be a qualified psychoanalyst...

Transactional analysis (TA) is a psychoanalytic form of psychology developed by the American psychiatrist Eric Berne in the 1950s, based on his published theory of communication...

Psychotherapists are trained in a specific therapy technique to support patients with emotional, mental or behavioural problems. TrainingThere are no regulations in the UK on...

Psychologists are specialised in the study of human behaviour. They use tests and discussion to help you get to know yourself better. TrainingPsychologists will have studied at...

NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) is a therapy that improves communication with others using language patterns. It guides and instructs your brain to fool you into having self-co...

The Mayo diet, or the grapefruit diet as it is also know, was all the rage in the 80s. It's one of those diets that requires a lot of will power, you have to be able to survive...

One of the pioneers of using GI (glycaemic index) in relation to weight loss was Frenchman Michel Montignac. His diet has a large number of followers and is based on the glycaemic...

Looking for another way to shed the pounds this summer without going hungry? The South Beach diet could be the choice for you. From first glance, yes this is incredibly similar...

The Zone diet is the brainchild of American doctor Barry Sears. It first came out in 1995 and was adopted by numerous celebrities. It advocates foods that encourage weight loss...

This is a health and weight loss diet invented in the 1950s by Dr Pritikin. He devised a diet to follow because his arteries were clogged with cholesterol. The Pritikin Diet and...

If you haven't heard of this top diet yet then we're not sure where you've been - ever since 2010 the Dukan Diet has been everywhere and when we say everywhere, we're talking...

The cabbage soup diet is a 7-day low-calorie plan. There are several versions around but all include eating a large quantity of cabbage soup combined with specific additional foods...

Aka: BV What is Bacterial Vaginosis? Bacterial Vaginosis (BV) is the most common vaginal infection for women of a childbearing age. It is almost twice as prevalent as thrush and...