By not eating for a period of time, known as fasting in many religions, the body can shift its focus from digestion to conducting a kind of spring clean. Lemon juice, maple syrup and cayenne pepper assist in this process by acting as a natural cleaning agent - hence the lemon detox di

As bipedaluar animals, we are designed to be upright - standing, walking or running. However, we seem to be gradually devolving because of our preference for more of a sedate lifestyle i.e. living in a box, working in a box, staring at a box during the day, and then sitting back in our box in the evening to watch yet another box!!!

We all have hundreds of habits - many of which have built up over the years without realising it. It's therefore important to try and accumulate a few GOOD ones from time to time in order to compensate for all the BAD ones (especially when it comes to our health). This free Healthy Habits download, is a collection of 27 habits (3 for each Principles Behind Great Health) that can be printed off and stuck to the fridge door - or anywhere else it can be looked at for a minute or two everyday until the habit has been formed.

These will help you to cleanse every morning; snack between breakfast and lunch; keep muscles strong; avoid afternoon sugar cravings, maintain a healthy stomach; move things along internally; and indulge just a little:

Some pipes could date back to Victorian times (if your country's history goes back that far), so it's possible the water might contain some of the following contaminants: chlorine, flurine compounds, trihalomethanes (THMs), salts (i.e. arsenic, radium, aluminimum, copper, lead, mercury, cadmium, barium), hormones, nitrated and pesticides. Umm, nice!

A group of boffins from various hospitals and universities, all PhDs, recently carried out a study of people’s sleeping habits and their chances of developing a common cold. They basically injected rhino-virus up the hooters of 153 volunteers and then monitored their sleeping habits to see who caught a cold...surprise surprise, the results were conclusive.