It is often said weight loss is 80pc nutrition and 20pc exercise but sometimes I think it’s 110pc mental. In nutrition, it is often more dangerous for you to diet and fall off the wagon than to not diet at all. This is because not only are you losing your fat-burning lipolytic cells and gaining more fat cells when dieting, but dieting also impacts negatively on your emotional and mental states. When your head is…

The release of the new Sex and the City movie has led to thousands of Irish females to check out Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda’s latest adventures. But it isn’t just their glossy and glamorous lives that entrance women everywhere, it’s their never-ending collection of fashions and fancy footwear. The Sex and the City franchise made Manolo Blahnik, Jimmy Choo, Cosmopolitans and Rampant Rabbits famous, but its real legacy may be the rise in chronic foot and back problems….

Summer is here, and, for many, it’s an opportunity to show off the results of their hard work in the gym over the last number of months. In winter you can hide your food indiscretions under layers of clothing, but hot weather brings added pressure to expose more flesh. Many dare not to bare because to do so would mean revealing their unsightly muffin top. A muffin top is when a layer of fat hangs…