Are you a fun-loving family looking to get healthier but struggling to find ways that work for you? A brand new BBC1 show is on a mission to help us all live better with quick & easy fixes. KEO Films is widely regarded as the UK’s top independent production company with a long history of making award-winning documentaries. Notable awards to date include BAFTAs for Hugh’s Fish Fight (about trying to protect our oceans) and Welcome to Lagos, as well as an Oscar nomination for Exit Through…

A new coffee shop, Bitelicious, has opened in Duke Street Arcade, Cardiff. It offers a combination of a coffee shop, confectionary and bistro and prides itself on providing tasty treats but with healthy, no-sugar-added ingredients as well as gluten free options. With an appropriate opening time around Halloween, several product names have taken inspiration from Dracula himself such as Dracula’s omelette, Dracula’s bites, and Dracula’s cookies. With a varied menu that includes a traditional English breakfast as well as traditional…

Leading sustainable transport charity, Sustrans Cymru launches second online travel challenge to get workplaces encouraging their employees to walk, cycle or use public transport for their daily commute.  The ‘Cymru Travel Challenge’ runs from 10th to 31st October with 77 workplaces and 877 individuals signed up so far to leave their cars at home and choose greener modes of transport.  Each year physical inactivity costs the NHS in Wales £51 million and this challenge is aimed to address this, demonstrating how…

International tennis came to the Cardiff suburbs when Rhiwbina Tennis Club hosted an ITF (International Tennis Federation) world seniors tour event. The Yonex YCsports Welsh Seniors Open involved more than 60 players from Wales, England, Scotland, Hong Kong and New Zealand, in age groups 35, 45, 55, and 65, singles, doubles and mixed. There were some very competitive matches, including the ladies 35+ singles, between Ellie Lewis and Ellen Jones, which turned into a three-set epic. Winners from Wales were:…

Wales celebrates series of tennis successes Morgan Cross (Wrexham TC) and Megan Davies (Ruthin LTC) have fulfilled a dream by lifting a trophy at Wimbledon. The pair won the Regional 14U Girls Doubles at the HSBC Road to Wimbledon competition, beating top seeds Lillian Mould and Harriet Petley in the final, 6-4 7-6. HSBC Road to Wimbledon offers young players the chance to meet their tennis heroes and inspire the next generation of Wimbledon stars to take their tennis careers…

If you’re avoiding wheat, gluten, dairy or even soya but are struggling to find healthy alternatives to your favourite foods, you’re not alone. Many free-from products on our supermarket shelves – especially in the ‘baked goods’ and gluten-free category – are made with refined ingredients, and often contain more sugar than their conventional equivalents! This makes these products no better than those made with standard white flour: high in refined carbohydrates, low in vitamins, minerals and fibre, and an excellent…

Look at your diet: By cutting down on sugar and alcohol we can help to balance out yo-yoing moods. Both these substances increase a neurotransmitter called dopamine. Dopamine makes us feel rewarded and pleasurable but this doesn’t last forever and – once levels fall – we can feel lower than we did before. So as tempting as chocolate bars look, especially when we feel low, try to stay away from sugar. Eat oily fish twice a week, snack on chia…

New research from natural fruit bar, Fruit Heroes, reveals:   –     86% of parents in Cardiff are concerned about their child’s diet –     60% of Cardiff parents don’t think the UK’s nutritional guidelines for kids are clear –     Guidelines and reports have been so confusing to parents in Cardiff that a staggering 27% (the highest in the UK) think eating fruit is unhealthy –     Almost half of parents in Cardiff don’t know what the 5-a-day guideline is –     84% of…