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Health
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HEAD-TO-TOE HEALTH CHECK
With the NHS buckling under pressure, GP surgeries rammed and seemingly a different doctor working every time you manage to rugby tackle a receptionist for an appointment, it’s no wonder that private doctor surgeries are stepping into the gap. The idea being that, for a monthly or annual fee, you can call up and get […]
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Move over Bieber! Muddy tries cupping
I’m always on the look out for the stuff that’s slightly new, different or quirky in the area, and blow me down if I haven’t found it! The brilliant Thame Therapy Clinic, which I’ve used on personal level for everything for osteos and acupuncture (my never ending bad back), to some cranial work on my […]
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THE BAGNALL CENTRE
It’s interesting how ‘wellness’ has become an accepted concept over the last year, isn’t it? It feels like our health is finally viewed as more than a pill popped or ten minutes offloading at the harrassed doctor’s surgery, with complementary therapies increasingly part of our lives, whether it’s acupuncture to help fertility or reflexology to […]
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Muddy tries: Clinic on the Green
If I were to start a competition to find the cutest, quirkiest alternative therapy centre in rural England, I think the Clinic on the Green would have a good stab at winning it. Sitting on the green (well, what did you expect?) in Bletchington, a sleepy, pretty village 2 miles north of Kidlington, 5 miles […]
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This woman will make you GLOW
Madeleine Shaw is a food blogger, cook and health coach, with a whopper 216k Instagram followers (yeah I’m channeling a bit of IG envy right there). The 26 year old author of cookbooks Get the Glow and Ready Steady Glow (published April 16) appears at the Oxford Literary Festival on 9 April to discuss Eating […]
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Things I’ve learnt about dieting
Another summer, another diet – another failure? Not for me, my friends! I have 23 days before I fly off to the Med with my girly posse and abject fear at exposing my pitiful bikini body to the world has given me the nudge to fight the flab for, oooh, the 80th time in 20 […]
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