Every year countless vacationers take a beach holiday to relax, feel the surf on their feet, the warmth of the sun on their skin and the wind in their hair.
The sea’s effect on health is also the focus of Thalassotherapy, a Greek word that means therapy through the sea. Thalasso has made some things [...]
Greece’s success at the Euro 2004 Soccer Championship in Portugal along with the Athens 2004 Summer Olympic Games have encouraged Greeks to get off the couch and onto the sports field, medical experts said.
The President of the Sports Medicine Association of Greece, Constantinos Natsis, said that the number of Greeks exercising after the two international sports [...]
People who closely follow a Mediterranean diet, rich in vegetables, grains and olive oil, live longer than those who don’t.
That’s the conclusion of a Harvard study that found a dramatic reduction in death rates among those who used the diet’s guidelines.
A substantial reduction > Working with a 10-point scale that gauged adherence to the diet, researchers found [...]
In winter, people are always trying to keep warm, and one of the best ways to do it is to take a bath. The warm water, the bubbles, the privacy, all of this comes together to create a truly relaxing environment.
Doctors recommend bubble baths as an effective way to increase body temperature, increase blood [...]
Eating a healthy, low-fat diet shouldn’t mean that you have to compromise on flavour or texture.
Refreshing recipes will fill you with energy and that all-important feel-good factor without loading up on unnecessary calories and fat.
There’s no point trying to eat steamed fish and vegetables every day, at least that’s what I believe. You’ve got to cook meals [...]
Everybody who has spent time in sports has heard lots of advice about sports nutrition.
A lot of it confuses us, especially athletes, on what is really right or wrong. Athletes and sportsmen are misled by quack nutritionists or by the practice of trial-and-error on the right kind of food to eat for the improvement [...]
Coping with the heat > It’s hot outside but there are ways to make it more bearable.
The summer heat is well and truly upon us and the long, hot days can test the patience of most of us at times. There are few who are not affected by the heat in one way or another. How [...]
