The power of our sense of smell is amazing. A certain smell might evoke memories of a certain time and place – like the way the peppermint reminds me of my grandmother or how jasmine takes me back to my family home in Malaysia. Other scents might make us feel excited, adventurous, daring or conjure a range of other emotions.

Musical instruments can store germs for days and even weeks.

Most gyms these days are kid-friendly, offering child minding facilities that allow busy Mums some time to themselves to squeeze in a workout. If your local gym doesn’t have a creche, membership doesn’t work into your budget or you prefer to be around your bub while you exercise, this is the perfect workout for you!

A compound from parsley and celery has been shown to block breast cancer growth.

Hay fever is one of those conditions that people just learn to live with.  The constant sneezing, itchy eyes and runny nose can be extremely debilitating.  Unlike other allergies, it is a condition that is generally caused by our environment and often no matter how diligent we are with keeping the home dust and mould […]

Dust made of human skin particles can detoxify your home.

Brain cluttering is behind memory loss as you age, but you can declutter.

Movie stars have some lessons to teach us as to why we choose our marriage partners.

The herb Butterbur beats a pharmaceutical antihistamine in relieving allergies.

The real reason people are going to hire you is simple: it’s for what they get from you that grabs them on an emotional level. Remember that people buy totally based on emotion, and then defend the sale with logic. Emotion comes first, logic comes second. You need to uncover the real deep-seated reasons why people are going to hire you.

In order to make fitness improvements and reach goals, we must push the boundaries. The body is an amazing, readily adaptive machine and if you repeatedly do something that you find easy, you won’t improve.

This week’s challenge is to push the boundaries and complete as many push ups as you can in 60 seconds.

Psychologists have established why a gorilla in a room is invisible to some people.