AnnA R’s blog

AnnA Rushton is an experienced author and speaker on health, personal development and creativity. With a background in television, theatre and advertising she has written and broadcast nationally for print, radio and television.

Diet Drinks and Weight Loss

Posted on February 16, 2012

Apparently new research to be published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition claims that if you will only swop your ‘normal’ drinks for the ‘sugar-free’ version you can lose up to 5 per cent of your body weight in just … Continue reading →

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Want To Stay Sharp? Make Music!

Posted on February 4, 2012

Gareth Malone has convinced many of the community benefits and emotional pay off for those joining a choir, but it seems any form of music making will also help keep those brain cells alert. If you resisted that piano practice … Continue reading →

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Breast Is Best For Baby – Unless You Are A Drug Company

Posted on January 22, 2012

There are some things you just take so for granted: like breathing regularly is good for your health and breast milk is best for babies. Well not, if you live in the USA it isn’t as researchers from the US … Continue reading →

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How ADHD Was Turned Into A Crime

Posted on January 18, 2012

ADHD is a much wider condition than most people are aware of and responses to it do vary. There is the highly positive side that sees its ability to think outside the box and be highly creative as a great … Continue reading →

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Researchers Leave Out Important – And Damaging – Facts

Posted on January 8, 2012

I am always suspicious of clinical trials – I want to know who has funded them for a start as that will tend to influence the outcome.  It is a given of scientific theory that if you start out with … Continue reading →

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Boosts For Tired Brains!

Posted on December 22, 2011

Let’s face it by the time Christma Day comes and you have been juggling lists, fighting crowds and trying to remember who has gone veggie since last year your poor old little grey cells are full to bursting. So let … Continue reading →

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Healing Herbs – Why Your Mother – And Grandmother – Were Right

Posted on December 13, 2011

I know it’s a terrible thing to realize isn’t it, but apart from reaching the age when I hear myself bemoaning the lack of manners in the young (no, really) it is good to have those old natural remedies vindicated. … Continue reading →

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Mouthwash or Mudras For Sweet Breath?

Posted on November 30, 2011

I have heard many benefits from doing yoga, but having fresh breath has so far not been one of them. However, I love to live and learn and certainly many of the commercially available mouthwashes come with unwanted additives, one … Continue reading →

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To Jab Or Not This Winter?

Posted on November 24, 2011

Every winter there is a call to summon us to the doctor’s surgery for a flu injection.  Now I am the possessor of a bus pass I am automatically on the list and I have had to strenuously resist the … Continue reading →

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3 in 10 New Mums Have Baby Blues

Posted on November 14, 2011

I am not referring to the colour of their babies eyes either. I was amazed to read a new survey from the charity 4Children that produced that figure, and that a horrifying 25% of mothers still suffered from PND up … Continue reading →

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