End-of-year festivities need not mean wasteful indulgence. It’s easy to maintain your earth-friendly sensibilities while creating a feast to nourish your body and soul.

The ancient practice of well dressing has links to the time of the plague and brings together pagan and Christian beliefs. Today, it allows the modern traveller in England direct participation in a centuries-old tradition.

If the thought of the annual family gathering during the holiday period results in a sigh of resignation or a heart-stopping moment of panic, you’re not alone. But don’t worry — there are survival tactics to get you through this Christmas and many more to come.

Drinking the juice of purple grapes is good for your brain.

In a piece headed New Alarm Bells About Chemicals and Cancer, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof does the hard work for us and wades through the 200-page report released by the President’s Cancer Panel on May 5. Their main findings? That the amount of chemicals present in our lifestyle may be detrimental to our […]

Your personality impacts the size of your brain during aging.

Hot chillies could help with weight-loss.

Getting hot and dirty at a health spa can help arthritic knees.

Thailand offers unique experiences for the traveller seeking a healing spa or health retreat holiday. Recently two Australian therapists have been swapping ideas and treatments with a Thai health resort.

In learning to live with Meniere’s disease, Michael Grosvenor found that a low-salt diet can be enjoyable as well as healthy.

Known as the yoga of awareness, kundalini yoga has the potential to awaken your unlimited potential through a combination of various poses, breathing, chanting and meditative practices.

Luminously colourful and wildly exotic, Rajasthan is India at its most vivid; a rugged, rarefied moonscape embellished with dazzling people, sumptuous palaces and imposing fortresses.