Recent Articles in Healthy parents

National Smile Month
May 18, 2015

National Smile Month begins today with three key messages: brush for two minutes twice a day with a fluoride toothpaste, cut down on how often we eat sugary foods and drinks and visit the dentist regularly. Plus there are over 1500 oral health events taking place throughout the country.

Allergy Awareness Week
Apr 20, 2015

Organised by Allergy UK, 20 to 26 April is Allergy Awareness Week. Anne Coates highlights a few products her family have used and endorse: Hopes Relief, Bio-Kult and Aquaint.

Get ready for the sun with Ultrasun
Apr 9, 2015

Ultrasun has a range of products designed for all the family: Extreme 50; Family 30; Sports 20 and Face 30 Tinted which Anne Coates reviews.

Healthy Options
Mar 31, 2015

At Parenting Without Tears we're often sent samples of health products to try out. Our reactions obvioulsy aren't based on scentific reseach but we can give an opinion. Currently We have tried or are taking: POM Wonderful 100% pomegranate juice, Bio-Kult Infantis and Advanced multi-strain formula and Seven Seas Perfect Woman 7. Here's Anne Coates' thoughts.

Spring clean your way to fitness
Mar 24, 2015

British Military Fitness outlines ten calorie busting ways to spruce up your home.

Testicular Cancer – "talk balls"
Feb 25, 2015

Vikings and Hunger Games star, Alexander Ludwig, has teamed up with Orchid Male Cancer Charity launches a new campaign to encourage fathers to "talk balls" with their sons.

Breast cancer – some facts
Feb 4, 2015

Especially for World Cancer Day, Dr Sally Norton, founder of Vavista, has put together some facts on breast cancer based on the questions she is frequently asked.

Food cravings - what you need
Jan 31, 2015

What are your food cravings trying to tell you? Shona Wilkinson, Nutritionist at NutriCentre helps explain...

Check your cereals for sugar content
Jan 29, 2015

Following the 2012 Which? Breakfast Cereal Report which revealed worryingly high amounts of free sugars in 50 breakfast cereals, three years on, a new survey by Action on Sugar has surveyed the same 50 products and revealed that cereal manufacturers have made little attempt in tackling the issue – shockingly, certain products even contain more sugars than they did in 2012.

The Fat Burn Revolution by Julia Buckley
Jan 16, 2015

Julia Buckley, author of The Fat Burn Revolution, gives her top six "No Shizzle, Just Sizzle" tips to get you into great shape.

Anamaya Centre Meditation App
Dec 18, 2014

A new meditation app has been launched by Anamaya, owner of the world-renowned London-based health and wellbeing centre. The eponymously named App is based upon clinical work carried out at the centre. Anne Coates has tried it out

Avoid Type 2 Diabetes with lifestyle changes
Nov 14, 2014

On World Diabetes Day the theme is Helathy Living and Diabetes and you can calculate your own risk with a simple questionnaire and make some lifestyle changes.