Healthy Living Blog

Getting a good night's sleep can be a battle. In store we have lots of fabulous products designed to help you sleep better but a great evening routine will also help to ensure that every night is a restful one too. Here our in store sleep advisor, Phillippa, tells us...

If you were to google a natural remedy for almost any ailment, chances are you'll find someone, somewhere recommending turmeric as the best thing to take. Why is this yellow spice seen to be possibly nature's greatest home remedy? Can it really...

One of our favourite products is quite simply, a SuperHerb for your immune system. At the beginning of the 1950s Alfred Vogel spent some time with the Native American Oglala Lakota in the USA. The way these indigenous people used the power of nature for their health...

It seems like everyday there's a new superfood or an amazing supplement that we can't live without (as I write this, it's all about Inulin in store today thanks to Angela Rippon on Thursday night!) but how do we know? What really is super, and why? Should we all rush...

This weekend we've been inundated with people enquiring as to whether we sell prebiotics in store and will this get them the great night's sleep they're craving. Why, because it featured heavily in the BBC documentary "The Truth About Sleep" last week and of all the...

Our 4th SuperHero SuperFood is owner Trish Stephenson's favourite - our Advanced Phytonutrient Multivitamin and Mineral from Solgar, Omnium. Find out why she thinks it's a true SuperHero... "So…. Most of us pop a Multi Vitamin daily, often just a random...

We all look forward to a break away from the normal day to day routines, but if you’ve ever spent your precious time away feeling under the weather you’ll know how miserable that can be. Why not try our top tips for a happy and healthy holiday, naturally? It might...

"Maca (Lepidium meyenii)is a plant that grows in central Peru in the high plateaus of the Andes mountains. It has been cultivated as a vegetable crop in Peru for at least 3000 years. It is a relative of the radish and has an odour similar to butterscotch. The root (or...

We all want to be as fit and active as possible in life so looking after our joints is an important part of our health. If you find that you ache more than you would like, try our top 5 ways to keep moving! Glucosamine & Chondroitin- these help you body to repair...

Whenever we think about Christmas, one of the first things we usually think about is gifts and either what we'd like to give to someone or else receive ourselves. We are big believers in giving something worthwhile, be that an experience, something for your home or...