Category: New Year’s Day/Eve

No Smoking Day 2017- be proud to be a quitter

Mid Ulster District Council in partnership with the Public Health Agency are encouraging smokers in the area to quit smoking on this day and ‘Be Proud to be a Quitter’. The annual No Smoking Day is a perfect opportunity for smokers to get motivated to quit smoking, particularly if their new years’ resolutions have been broken or are in need of renewing.

Why March Is the Best Time to Rethink Your Resolutions

When you set that lofty New Year’s resolution at the stroke of 2017 , March probably looked a lot different in your head: You’d be fitter, slimmer, happier, healthier. “People make their resolutions in a ‘bubble’ of overindulgence,” says Michelle Segar, Ph.D., a motivation scientist and author of No Sweat: How the Simple Science of Motivation Can Bring You a Lifetime of Fitness .

Eight ways a healthy lifestyle can improve your finances

This time of year everyone is thinking about getting healthy but have you ever thought about improving your financial fitness Surprisingly, making a few small changes to your lifestyle will not only make your bank balance healthier, you might live a bit longer to spend it too! Plus, you get the added incentive of literally earning money by keeping your New Year’s resolution. A healthy lifestyle can help to reduce the cost of life insurance and protection policies such as income protection, critical illness and health insurance.

Beach(ed) body

“Breaking his oath and resolution like a twist of rotten silk.” – William Shakespeare , English playwright, Aufidius, in Coriolanus, act 5, sc.

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… the third Monday in January is the most depressing day of the year – and it turns out, I’m right. According to mental health experts, Blue Monday has turned into nothing but a PR stunt, encouraged by companies trying to sell stuff (Never!) I’m not …

Great beginnings

Experience the Grand Dame’s “Meet the Rooster” package inclusive of a luxurious overnight stay at the Manila Hotel in one of its Superior Deluxe rooms during the eve of the Chinese New Year. The package offers buffet breakfast for two at the CafA Ilang-Ilang, one ticket to the Chinese New Year activity , and a Feng Shui Essentials book by Master Joseph Chau Kam Shing for only P8,888 nett.

The Bottom Line Of Your New Year’s Resolution

… still aren’t convinced, or your habit is a little less drastic than that, check out this infographic from Guard Your Health that elaborates how much cash you are losing to tobacco. If you are committing to one new year’s resolution, for both your …

See what happens to your body in the hours, days, weeks, months and years after you quit smoking

As many people quit smoking for their New Year’s resolution, here’s a breakdown of what happens to your body As 2017 gets under way, many smokers will have taken their last puff – and there’s no doubt that quitting smoking is the best thing they can do for their health. We know that we all die eventually, but smokers die on average 10 years earlier and tragically from much more painful and debilitating illnesses, such as lung cancer, heart attacks and strokes.

Ryan Seacrest gets stuck in Times Square elevator, rescued

TV host Ryan Seacrest says he and about five other people got stuck in a Times Square elevator before an appearance on ABC’s “Good Morning America” and were rescued by firefighters. The host of “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest” was heading up to the crystal ball on Friday morning when the elevator got stuck.