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Tips for a great night’s sleep

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We all know that we feel better after a great night’s sleep. So how do we achieve this holy grail?

  1. Limit your evening light. Cut down on the blue light emitted from screens as it blocks the release of melatonin, the hormone our body releases to allow us to drift off to the land of nod.
  2. Failing this, wear blue-light blocking sunglasses or download apps that block the amount of blue light your devices give off.
  3. Be consistent with your bedtime. Just as young babies thrive on routine, so too does your body clock. Keep the same bedtime and you’ll soon start to naturally wind down of an evening.

How to give yourself an at home spa facial

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Step 1. Steam your face to open your pores. Steam your skin for five minutes.

Step 2. Wash your face with a gentle cleanser.

Step 3. Exfoliate your skin to scrub away dead skin cells.

Step 4. Apply a mask to your face. Leave it on for the next step.

Step 5. Place a cucumber slice on each eye. Wait 20 minutes, then remove the cucumber and rinse off the mask with cool water.

Step 6. Give yourself a facial massage to stimulate blood flow. Massage your face around your eyes, nose, cheeks, mouth and chin.

Step 7. Apply a moisturiser.

Step 8. Apply a toner to refresh skin.

New parent hacks every mum should know

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Your days are about to get busy, use these 3 tips from those who have been there before.

  1. Sleep when your baby sleeps.

In the early days this is really important. Your baby can take an age to get into a routine, so snatch sleep when you can.

  1. Background noise is great.

This might sound counterproductive, but newborns are used to a noisy environment, so keep it loud: use the washing machine, hoover or white noise to help the little one fall asleep.

  1. Coping with colic.

Remember colic is a stage, it isn’t forever. Focus your energies on soothing your little one rather than finding a cure. Cuddles and comfort definitely help.

3 ways to achieve a better work/life balance

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Achieving a decent work/life balance is the goal for most of us these days, so take inspiration from our 3 tips.

  1. Learn to prioritise what actually matters. At the end of the day create a to do list for tomorrow with leftover priorities at the top.
  2. Better manage your time. Stop and start when you say you will and make the most of your commute time by tackling the less important tasks then.
  3. Seek flexible working when possible and adopt working hours and practices that mean you’re at your most productive.

Love your leftovers: bananas

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Bananas are incredibly versatile and popular. We buy over 5 billion of them a year, yet 1.4 million are wasted every single day.

Get more mileage out of yours:

  1. Store them correctly. Don’t store bananas with other fruit and veg as they create their own gases that cause everything around them to ripen. Keep them at room temperature.
  2. Use them as they’re ready. Unripe green bananas can be sliced and cooked. Soft, over ripe bananas are superb in baking.
  3. For ripe and over ripe bananas, either eat them up or slice them and freeze them for instant cold smoothies or whipped up into nice cream (dairy free instant ice cream).

The tampon tax

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Are you aware that you pay a tax on your tampons? Did you know that HMG class tampons and other items of sanitary products a ‘luxury’?

Who in their right mind would consider something that mopped up the collective mess every month and put a barrier between sanitary and well, unsanitary, a non-essential item?

It beggars belief in this day and age, a product that 50% of the population require on a monthly basis, is taxed. Especially seeing as MPs have recently begun addressing the issue of ‘period poverty’.

Come on England, let’s take a leaf out of Australia’s book and abolish this tax nonsense once and for all.

Wellness podcasts for men

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The appeal of wellness podcasts is not just limited to female listeners. Uptake is growing for the other half of the population, and worthwhile programmes not to be missed (in our opinion) include:

  • The Tim Ferriss Show. The author of the 4 day work week knows his stuff and is well placed to mentor you to greatness in 2019.
  • Jocko podcast. If it’s inspiration, leadership and strength you’re after, take your lead from the former commander of the most decorated special operations unit.
  • 10% Happier with Dan Harris. This guy suffered a panic attack live on air and sought recovery through meditation.

Restaurant of the month

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Zuaya is a vibrant modern Latin American restaurant and bar located in the heart of High Street Kensington, London, drawing on the fusion of flavours from Peru, Mexico, Argentina and Brazil with full attention on prime ingredients. Opened during the summer of 2018 flooding with freshness, aromas and sensations inspired on a jungle theme that provides guests a consolidated experience going from the interior design, staff service, food, music and ambience.

Zuaya has different environments that allows you to enjoy the restaurant at any point during the day. This could be a light lunch or eating at our comfortable bar tasting our fresh and colourful cocktails, or even a more restful dinner. From Thursday to Saturday there are live DJs that play ambient music providing a selection of jungle inspired tones of nature and Chill Out/Downtempo music.

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Monday to Friday: 12:00 PM to 00.30 AM

Saturday to Sunday: 11:00 AM to 11.30 PM

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Home improvements projects that will give you the best return on investment

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Home improvement projects work twofold – firstly, they’re supposed to make your time in your house more comfortable and secondly, when done right, they add instant value. So which improvements will give you the best return?

According to an American survey of over 3,200 participants, the top outdoor projects with the highest recoup on investment were a garage door replacement, manufactured stone veneer installation, and a wooden deck addition.

Inside the property, an upscale bathroom remodel, which included underfloor heating and increasing the footprint of the bathroom, followed by a mid-range kitchen project – less demolition of the kitchen, more replacing cupboard doors and upgrading appliances, plus a paint job, yielded the greatest return.

Why is sugar so addictive?

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If you didn’t know already, sugar is addictive. In fact, sugar is as addictive as cocaine, amphetamines and nicotine. Why is this? Because sugar is incredibly desirable due the powerful impact it has on the reward system in the brain.

The brain’s reward system, designed to be activated by natural rewards that are essential to the continuation of our species such as eating good food, interacting socially and having sex, can be hijacked via sugar or drugs, to give us those intense feelings of pleasure, and can result in cravings and addiction.

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