Christina Raven

Here are some simple tips for a slightly less unhealthy festive season this year! 1. Sit Less! This year in particular has been a Year of Sitting Dangerously – too much sitting stiffens up your hip and knee and ankle joints, and lowers your metabolic rate which makes it more likely to gain weight. So

Talking – there’s a lot of talking at Christmas: family celebrations, long meals, sitting around. Yet does your dodgy neck mean that the thought of that “watching a tennis-match” feeling of being in a conversation, the to-ing and fro-ing of words from left and right and back again, make your heart sink, and might even make

Life right now can feel like a series of broken fragments – shifting shadows that never stay still. There is hardly time to get used to one way of doing things when it is All Change, All Change – hold very tight please! (as Flanders and Swann would sing) – so long as you have

Miss J was gradually getting shorter and shorter, and more and more stooped, so that her lower ribs were resting on her pelvis. Needless to say she was getting more and more short of breath because she couldn’t actually breathe deeply anymore. When I put my hands on her back and felt her spine very

What is all this sitting doing to us? Apart from turning us into Covid Couch Potatoes, or should that be Covid Computer Potatoes? Sitting at our improvised desks at home; no longer is the day bookended and buffered by the daily commute by car or train, bus or bicycle, or even Shank’s Pony. Well that