Articles from "Mel's Journal"

• This Thanksgiving Day, let’s give thanks

  Posted in Health, Mel's Journal

  We don’t celebrate Thanksgiving Day here in the UK, and many of us don’t even know what it is.  From the films and TV shows we watch, it seems like...

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• How it feels to be dyslexic at 10 years old

  Posted in kids, Mel's Journal

  Grace was diagnosed with dyslexia just over a year ago.  The poor child had struggled for years, hiding her difficulties and wondering if she was ‘...

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• Giving up alcohol. Why & what's it like?

  Posted in Health, Mel's Journal

  By no means am I an alcoholic, nor do I drink over the recommended limit for women of 14 units a week. But since I’ve had children and turned 40, m...

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• Why I think tennis is the greatest sport on earth

  Posted in Fitness, Health, Mel's Journal

  I love tennis.  I always have.  Probably because my Mother and Grandmother played a lot, so I spent a lot of time sitting at the side of grass tenn...

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• How do you do it?

  Posted in Kids, Mel's Journal

  The question I get asked most frequently is “how do you do it?” This is referring to the fact that I run Bare Biology and am a mum to three young c...

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• Helping children with exam & homework stress

  Posted in Kids, Mel's Journal

  Could a decent breakfast be the answer? There is little to no mention of the role of good nutrition in the basic function of being able to concentr...

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• What we think of clean eating

  Posted in Health, Mel's Journal

  It's fashionable, it's all over Instagram (18.5 million hashtags), it's the latest label for the fitterati and the fitfluential; so we're probably ...

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