Walking towards health in Bonteheuwel
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When the doctor told a woman from Bonteheuwel, Soraya Salie, that there was no hope for her, after she had had a tumour removed from her brain, she just wouldn’t accept that. So she started to walk in her neighbourhood and also started to eat more healthily. And then she encouraged more people in Bonteheuwel to go walking with her, in this quest for a better quality life. That was the start of the Bonteheuwel
Don’t stress less, stress better
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This Stress Awareness Month (April 2018), transformational therapist, Shaldon Fitzgerald from Cape Town, puts the spotlight on the need for South African’s to change their negative relationship with stress. The World Health Organization calls stress ‘the health epidemic of the 21st Century’, and with more than 4.5 million South Africans suffering from depression. Factors including procrastination, extreme fatigue, difficulty concentrating, anxiety, fear and panic are adding to work-related stresses that are crippling output. “The first
