There’s more to healthy teeth and a dazzling white smile than brushing and flossing every day. Your mouth is a very small ecosystem, filled with good bacteria and, unfortunately, also bad bacteria. Everything we eat, drink, smoke, or put in our mouths affects the health of our gums and teeth, both immediately and longer term.…
Some would say the job of taking care of others is a calling. They feel as if they were meant to be doing this work and find great satisfaction in it. And helping others doesn’t mean having to sacrifice one’s own personal gain for the promotion of others. There are many careers that are excellent for…
A home is such a huge responsibility and if you’re in charge of a family, you might feel like all those responsibilities are building up! A home, or house, like anything requires constant devotion. For example, if you don’t change the oil on your car with regularity, you’re going to see it fail. If you…
Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess, and that includes decadence, adventure, lifestyle, and pleasure. You only get one shot at this life so you may as well give it absolutely everything you have. There is nothing worse than living a humdrum existence, or not stepping out of your comfort zones, or not buying…
For a car’s engine to run properly it needs to be well oiled and maintained. The same goes for our bodies. Don’t forget these five important checkups to keep your health at its optimum level. Image Source: Flickr Hearing If you struggle with your hearing at times, and it seems as if people are having…
Getting older means two things. Firstly, age doesn’t mean wisdom in the way that you might have considered when you were younger. The more experience you have, the more you realize you don’t know – but this is a good thing, as it means you have more and more questions to ask and more of…
When Ancel Keys first identified that heart disease wasn’t just a disease of aging, but something that people got because of lifestyle factors, it changed medicine forever. The whole reason everybody today is so obsessed with diet and exercise is because of those early pioneers doing research back in the 1950s. It should be said…
Improving your standard of beauty is not an easy task to master. Firstly, you need to ask yourself why you’re doing it – do you want to feel more confident, more accepted in your body, or are you doing it purely just because you can, because it’s something to do in the morning and a…
When you constantly feel tired, you might put it down to lifestyle situations. Having young children or a busy job can make you feel tired, as you’re always on the go and rushing around. But as long as you are getting plenty of sleep and rest, your lack of energy levels could be down to…
We all have days when we feel under the weather, and we’d rather stay in bed than go to work. Most of the time, this is because colds and sickness bugs are flying around or we’re desperate to catch up on sleep. However, it is possible to develop illnesses as a result of the daily…
We all would like to save money where we can, sometimes the big purchases in life make it absolutely impossible for us to squirrel cash away for a rainy day, and if we have made a big life change, like moving home, it adds to a mountain of debt that’s big enough already! And finding…
When you move house, there are a million and one things you need to organise, including getting to know your new area. Here are some tips on the contacts you need to make… Your Kids’ New Schools Image source One of the biggest problems with moving is how your kids will react to it. Children…