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As well as helping us to increase our productivity, experts have found many health benefits of a daytime snooze.

Heart UK recently found that one of the causes of high cholesterol can be an unhealthy lifestyle, they also said that by making significant changes to your diet, you should see a slight reduction in your cholesterol levels within as little as 3 or 4 weeks.

Do you love playing board games? Maybe a bit of scrabble or chess is your preference? A widely held belief is that as we grow older, it is important to keep one’s mind active – and so playing such mentally stimulating games can be a good idea and certainly can’t do any harm.

Taking up new activities may bring benefits such as increased engagement, in fact, you could say it’s a ‘no-brainer’ to train your brain! 

Gardening provides a wide range of health benefits to people of every age, both physically and mentally. A recent study conducted by Bakker Spalding, found that for 88% of people, mental wellbeing is one of the key benefits of spending time working or just enjoying time in the garden. 

Indeed, many charities are using gardening to bring about positive changes in people’s lives who are living with disabilities or ill health.

With all the water, combined with hard, unforgiving surfaces it’s no wonder that the bathroom is one of the home’s accident hot-spots.

Bath mats are a great idea to turn the tables on slippery surfaces, making the bathroom much safer, after all, why should keeping clean and hygienic involve risking your safety?

Trionic walker rollators have revolutionised the walker market, bringing high quality build and feature rich models that users have praised heavily across the UK and the world.