Beauty, Lifestyle and Diet

Good health is fundamental to pursuing an active lifestyle.  Good nutrition is vital in taking care of your body and slowing down the ageing process. This channel’s focus is on the contribution that diet and supplements  make to your well-being.  And to keep you looking as good as you feel, there are news and reviews on cosmetic products and treatments.

Putting some colour into her life Chris Hurley, Editor of AMG goes for an image update Like many women of a certain,age, Chris Hurley felt her image needed a major overhaul but just didn’t know where to start.  Wanting to update her style without looking like mutton dressed as lamb and clueless about what suits her now, she went for a consultation with Colour Me Beautiful. So did her colour analysis and style consultation bring about the transformation she was looking for?  Click here... to find out _________________________________ Chocolate can be good for you! Chocolate gets a lot of bad press, and is frequently blamed for the UK’s growing obesity problem. But eaten in moderation as part of a healthy balanced diet, chocolate could actually provide several health benefits, according to health and fitness website www.keepthedoctoraway.co.uk To find out more about this surprising revelation click here... _________________________________ End the misery of broken sleep   With a new range of nightwear and bedlinen from Coolsleepwear.co.uk Help is at hand for women who suffer disturbed nights because of night sweats or hot flushes. Coolsleepwear.co.uk is a new website selling a specialist range of nightwear and bed linen technically proven to keep you cool and comfortable and promotes restful sleep.  You certainly don’t have to be menopausal to enjoy the benefits of this cool range of sleepwear and it is very popular with all age groups during the summer months and when travelling to hotter climates.  For more information, click here... _________________________________ Diet Freedom Give up the yo-yo dieting and lose weight 40 per cent discounts on memberships Diet Freedom is a new online health and diet service founded by ex-serial dieters Tina Michelucci and Deborah Pyner and includes an expert team of some of the UK's most highly respected doctors, dieticians and alternative therapy practitioners. Those who want to lose weight can receive continuous support and information without the need to turn up at regular meetings. Diet Freedom provides to the tools and services needed to follow a healthy, low GL diet based on eating natural foods and has ‘For Her’ and ‘For Him’ sections catering specifically for female and male members.  For more information click here... _________________________________ Why Fad Diets Are Silly and Obsessive  Diet doctor Judith Wills, author of best-selling nutrition book The Diet Bible, offers good food advice and other no-nonsense approaches to losing weight. To read the full article click here... _________________________________ Herbal Remedies: Need to Know   If taken incorrectly, herbal medicines can lead to allergies, liver or kidney malfunction, blindness, cancer or even death. Surprised? Maire Bonheim finds out from Dr Lakshman Karalliedde author of Traditional Herbal Medicines: A Guide To Their Safer Use as to why you should exercise caution when popping your favourite herbal remedy.  To read more click here... _________________________________ The RoC 12 Week Challenge Reduce those wrinkles by The Spring With so many anti-ageing products promising miracles,  finding one that actually makes a real improvement can be something of a gamble. Well now RoC® is giving women a measurable way to put their products to the test with the RoC® 12 Week Challenge. They say that by using RoC® Retin-Ox just once a day, for 12 weeks, women can get clinically proven visible wrinkle reduction. We decided to put this to the test and asked 54 year old Cathy from our review panel to take that challenge.  To find out whether she felt it made a difference click here... _________________________________ Prolou Prolou is the latest anti-ageing skin care product which recreates the effects of snake venom to reduce wrinkles by up to 52 per cent.  It claims to have properties which produce a similar effect to Botox treatments but without the injections and at a fraction of the cost. Our panel put Prolou to the test.  To read their review and to enter our competition for a 50ml jar of Prolou click here... _________________________________ A Vegetarian Diet: The Benefits A vegetarian diet is hugely effective for weight loss - vegetarians tend to be slimmer than meat-eaters, and they experience lower rates of heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, and other life-threatening conditions linked to being overweight or obese. Maire Bonheim investigates. Read more here...

Are expensive anti-wrinkle eye worth the money? Apparently not, according to consumer champion Which?.  Their advice is to forget claims by expensive anti-wrinkle eye creams as they probably won’t make much difference and a £3 moisturiser could probably do a better job. Using volunteers aged from 35 – 65, Which? tested 12 anti-wrinkle eye products, including one which claims to make the face ‘look visibly younger’, over a period of six weeks. And, apparently none of them came close to eliminating or significantly reducing the appearance of wrinkles. To read more about the findings and the products they used click here... _________________________________ Best Foot Forward Chris Hurley reviews Shuropody, an Aladdin's Cave of things to keep you feet healthy and beautiful "I had never set foot inside a chiropodist’s practice but, in readiness for the sandal season, I popped into a Shuropody store for some expert treatment". To read her verdict click here... _________________________________ Eleven – Hair Salon A self-confessed hair salon phobic – Chris Hurley goes along to see if the new flagship Redken Salon in Blenheim Street will change her mind. Chris admits that she finds getting her hair done a stressful experience but, unfortunately, the regular reappearance of grey hair means it’s a frequent necessity.  Intrigued by the new Beach Highlights technique, which means fewer trips to the hairdressers, she goes along to the new Eleven salon to find out more. click here... to read the review. _________________________________ Ditched the Diet Again? Blame Your Brain People who say they’re too tired or stressed out to exercise should wake up and smell the coffee, says Dr Matthew Mills, writer of new fitness book Mind and Body Metamorphosis. Maire Bonheim spoke to him about tackling the pitfalls of modern life. To read more click here... _________________________________ Exclusive Health Tips from Patrick Holford Health and diet expert Patrick Holford author of The Nine Day Liver Detox gives Maire Bonheim top tips for recovering from Christmas and New Years food and drink indulgences. To find out more click here...  _________________________________ Fabulous at 50 - Womens' Confidence is Booming New research, carried out by Dove Proage, sponsor of the Channel 4 series 'How to Look Good Naked', reveals that one in ten women over fifty would consider posing naked for a professional photographer and almost half (43%) of women over fifty are happy with their bodies. Read more here... _________________________________ Boost wellbeing with this new Brazilian Berry Capsule It’s been hailed as the most nutritious and powerful food in the world and is rumoured to be a favourite with the likes of Posh and supermodel Gisele for its amazing anti-ageing properties and health benefits.  The Amazonian Açaí berry is now available in a new health supplement called Darvida which hits the shelves in Boots this Spring. Read more here... _________________________________ The Wonders of Virgin Coconut Oil Read about this fantastic but underpublicised oil. It's got so many benefits you would almost not believe it. So as an incentive to try it AMG has negotiated an introductory offer with one of the leading supplier, Coconoil. To find out how this oil could make you look and feel better click here... _________________________________ Fabulous at fifty To be a woman of fifty in today’s world is vastly different from previous generations, with mature women showing more confidence now than ever before.  We take a look at Dove’s new Pro.Active advertising campaign featuring some fabulous fifty-somethings in all their glory. Click here... to read more. _________________________________ Lynsey de Paul How to keep young and beautiful Award winning singer, composer and women’s self defence campaigner, Lynsey de Paul tells AMG how she manages to keep fit and trim. Find out more by clicking here... _________________________________ Change your mind and your body Chris Hurley, AMG Editor, meets Porter Freeman to find out about his journey from an “unhealthy, unfit, overweight old guy” to international fitness guru. Porter used the Body for Life system to achieve his goals. You can too, click here... to read more.