I HAVE HEARD ABOUT SOME NEW MEDICAL RESEARCH TO DO WITH GENETIC CONTROL OF WEIGHT LOSS? ------------------------------------------------ Yes indeed. There has been some very exciting genetic in this area. The ground-breaking work has been led by teams at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard Medical School, with the most important academic publication being [...]
There are many benefits to exercise including physical, medical, psychological, and emotional matters. The human being needs to be active, it is that simple. We need strenuous exercise (150-180 minutes a week) as well as incidental gentler activity (30 minutes every day). For most of us the ideal exercise programme is about 50-70% cardio, 20-40% [...]
Stress!!! It's such a little word that means so very much to so many of us. Stress means different things to people but it is really the uncomfortable feeling of not coping with the pressures of life. The "not coping" is key here because we all experience the pressures of life and we often [...]
I FEEL SO TIRED ALL THE TIME AT WORK AND AT HOME. I JUST HAVE NO ENERGY, PLEASE HELP ------------------------------------------------ The problem of fatigue is a very real one indeed. It affects many people but there are many possible causes so it is really important that you do not take casual advice from someone who says [...]
I AM DESPERATE. I AM AT LEAST 20KG OVERWEIGHT AND HAVING TRIED MANY DIETS I JUST DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO NEXT!!?? ------------------------------------------------ What a question! This must be THE million-dollar question in the world of health & wellness today. The truth is that more and more people want (and mostly need) to lose weight. [...]
MY FATHER HAD A HEART ATTACK AT AGE 52 AND I THINK MY GRANDPARENTS BOTH HAD HEART ATTACKS TOO. I AM 44 NOW, AND WORRIED! This is a very important question because heart disease is one of the leading causes of death in today's modern world. A heart attack occurs when the heart (which is [...]
Sanlam takes wellness seriously. Within the balance pillar of our Employee Value Proposition our investment in the multi-faceted Sanlam wellness programme - which includes Employee Assistance (EAP), online programme, health screening, targeted communications and special interventions - has increased in recent years. Pleasingly the investment is starting to show some return in the form [...]
We all catch a cold or a flu illness from time to time and it really can cause quite a bit of misery as well as disrupting our personal, family, social and working lives. While it is true that you cannot completely avoid these illnesses there is actually quite a bit you can do [...]
