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Health and Fitness

Healthy Heart Tip: Mother’s Day
This Sunday, 27th of March, treat your mum to a luxurious, heart healthy day. It’s important for all mums to remember to take care of their own health and wellbeing, as well as that of their families. Here’s a few ways to make the day healthy and special: Breakfast in Bed...
Ride Anywhere Week
SUNDERLAND residents are being encouraged to get on their bikes for Ride Anywhere Week this week (21-27 March) and enjoy the benefits of cycling. Through cycling platform Love to Ride, riders can choose a pledge for the week and access helpful tips, tricks, tools, and support. Participants can choose one of the...
Students Use Performance Skills to Boost Children’s Health and Wellbeing
A group of Performing Arts students from the University of Sunderland have been using their creative talents to inspire primary school pupils to look after their physical and mental health. The Year 3 students have spent the last two months touring local primary schools as part of the HealthyBods project,...
Healthy Heart Tip: Pancake Day
Pancake Day, also known as Shrove Tuesday, occurs 47 days before Easter Sunday and this year it will take place on 1st March. Traditionally, pancakes are made with flour, eggs and milk and they are fried in butter or oil. Whether you prefer your pancakes with a savoury or sweet...
Shedding light on the darkness of Blue Monday
Monday 17th January 2022. It’s the most depressing day of the year – apparently. But why? What is it about the third Monday of January – particularly in a COVID-era - that seems to make us feel worse than any other time? Dr Rebecca Owens is a psychology expert from the...
Online Sessions Helping To Boost Morale Approaching University Mental Health Day On March 4th
“I think when the world feels so chaotic and uncertain, taking that time out for yourself to exercise has such a huge impact on your mental wellbeing, for boosting your spirit and your mood, and just helping you to cope.” That is the message from 21-year-old Team Sunderland Netball President...
Many people are taking on challenges and setting themselves daily fitness goals while on lockdown during the Covid-19 pandemic, but for one Sunderland lecturer her need to keep fit and mobile has led to her setting herself a very unusual challenge – and rediscovering the meaning of good neighbours. Liz...
Establishing and maintaining daily routines is the difference between life lived to its fullest, and wasting precious days that become years doing nothing memorable, imitating a pile of clothes with a hibernating animal inside. This article is for those who know that more self-discipline would improve life for themselves and...
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Many of us make New Year resolutions to get fitter and more active, to eat more healthily and lose weight. But though we might start out with good intentions, a tough session at the gym or a visit to the health food store can be enough to send us scuttling back to our couch and...

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