Liz Earle Wellbeing

In this very special issue I’m launching a new focus for Liz Earle Wellbeing-helping all women to have a better second half. With many living longer than ever before, my Wellbeing team and I are on a mission to help us thrive in later life by investing in our health and wellbeing today. This means picking up good habits in our twenties and thirties, navigating the changes that come in our forties and fifties, and fortifying our bodies with everything we need to stay fit, sharp and energised in our sixties, seventies and beyond. I’ve been on quite a journey with my own second half. It’s brought some challenges: divorce and loved ones falling ill, to name a few. And my late forties were made difficult by menopause symptoms flying under…

Get in touch! We love hearing directly from the Wellbeing community, so drop us an email at hq@lizearlewellbeing.com to share your feedback with Liz and the team. We always appreciate your comments and look forward to hearing from you. @lizearlewellbeing @lizearleme Liz Earle Wellbeing Liz Earle Wellbeing @lizearlewb Plain sailing My new fabulous magazine is accompanying me on my Cunard cruise on the Queen Victoria, around the Mediterranean. Happy reading! Paula In the kitchen We love to see you enjoying our recipes. Don’t forget to tag us at @lizearlewellbeing! Let there be cake A warmed slice of rosemary and olive oil cake from Liz Earle Wellbeing magazine – inspired by @lizearleme, as always. Matched nicely with frozen mango and thick Greek yoghurt. Karen…

A Finnish study known as StopDia is the first to look at the effect lifestyle counselling might have on risk factors for Type 2 diabetes. The randomised control trial looked at 2,907 Finnish adults with an elevated risk for this common lifestyle-related disease. The participants were encouraged to take up small health-promoting habits – a lifestyle change that was supported by the BitHabit app, where they could choose from 400 such habits, mark them as completed and get feedback on their progress. These habits focused on improving diet quality, increasing physical activity, reducing sedentary time, encouraging better sleep, limiting alcohol consumption and stopping smoking. Weight loss was not a goal of the study: ‘Better diet quality reduces the risk for Type 2 diabetes, regardless of changes in the person’s weight,’ explains…

Therapeutic community gardening helped reduce loneliness during the pandemic, shows research from the University of Essex. The three-year study found that these green-fingered schemes helped to maintain and even improve mental health, despite national wellbeing plummeting. The study followed people with mental health issues who worked in community gardens run by the Trust Links charity. They sowed, planted and tended to flowers and vegetables, and subsequently found that their self-reported life satisfaction and mental wellbeing increased by 9%, while loneliness decreased. The study’s authors are now calling for more investment into therapeutic gardening which, they argue, could relieve pressure on the NHS. ‘The pandemic […] showed that even as we coped with unprecedented disruption and upheaval, community gardening has the power to help some of society’s most vulnerable people,’ said…

A recent study reveals most adults seeking to lose weight overestimate the health credentials of their diet. ‘We found that while people generally know that fruits and vegetables are healthy, there may be a disconnect between what researchers and healthcare professionals consider to be a healthy and balanced diet, compared to what the public thinks is a healthy and balanced diet,’ said study author Jessica Cheng. Researchers evaluated the diets of 116 adults aged 35-58 years old who were trying to lose weight. Study participants met with a dietitian to discuss their nutrition, and then tracked everything they ate and drank every day for one year on the Fitbit app. Both the participants and researchers rated the health of a diet using a Healthy Eating Index (HEI) score at the beginning…

…The number of times we should aim to limit checking emails if we want to enjoy reduced stress and improved wellbeing. These are the findings of a University of British Columbia study, which compared self-reported stress levels in 124 adults who limited their use of emails to three sessions per day for one week and then checked emails an unlimited number of times per day for the following week. Unsurprisingly, they found that limiting email time reduced psychological stress and improved wellbeing substantially. Time to turn on that out-of-office!…