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Here are 9 different ways to get some rest and recharge your battery:1. Time away2. Permission not to be helpful for a w...
08/03/2024

Here are 9 different ways to get some rest and recharge your battery:

1. Time away
2. Permission not to be helpful for a while
3. Doing something “unproductive”
4. Connection to art or nature
5. Solitude to recharge
6. A break from responsibility
7. Stillness to decompress
8. Safe space
9. Alone time at home

How to make Heart-Healthy Guacamole!Preparation Time: 10 minsDifficulty Level: EasyServes: 8 peopleINGREDIENTS- 1 large ...
08/03/2024

How to make Heart-Healthy Guacamole!
Preparation Time: 10 mins
Difficulty Level: Easy
Serves: 8 people

INGREDIENTS
- 1 large ripe tomato
- 3 avocados, very ripe but not bruised
- juice of 1 large lime
- Handful of coriander, leaves and stalks chopped, plus a few leaves, roughly chopped, to serve
- 1 small red onion, finely chopped
- 1 chilli, red or green, dressed and finely chopped
- Tortilla chips, to serve

METHOD

- Step 1: Use a large knife to pulverise 1 large ripe tomato to a pulp on a board, then tip into a bowl.

- Step2: Halve and stone the 3 avocados (saving a stone) and use a spoon to scoop out the flesh into the bowl with the tomato.

- Step 3: Tip the juice of 1 large lime, a handful of roughly chopped coriander, 1 finely chopped small red onion and 1 de-seeded and finely chopped red or green chilli into the bowl, then season with salt and pepper.

- Step 4: Use a whisk to roughly mash everything together. If not serving straight away, sit a stone (the one you saved earlier) in the guacamole as this helps to stop it going brown, cover with cling film and chill until needed.

Cooking with nutrient-rich foods such as avocados, is one of several east ways to improve your heart health.

Try this homemade face mask for dry skin. If you have dry skin, you know that the majority of dry skin remedies include ...
08/03/2024

Try this homemade face mask for dry skin. If you have dry skin, you know that the majority of dry skin remedies include heavy oils that can also be hella-pore clogging if you’re acne-prone. This avocado and honey face mask has only two ingredients and is super easy to make at home.

INGREDIENTS:
- half an avocado, mashed
- 1 tablespoon honey

Avocados are full of fatty acids, which help soothe and moisturise your dry skin barrier, while honey is a natural hydrate and astringent (it’s been used to treat acne and inflammatory skin conditions without drying out or irritating your skin). Mix and mash the two together, slather all over your face, then wash off after 10 minutes (or 15 minutes! or 20 minutes!).

What a lovely way to relax!

Fruity Facts: Avocados are fruits and are technically considered to be a single-seeded berry. What makes the avocado so ...
08/03/2024

Fruity Facts: Avocados are fruits and are technically considered to be a single-seeded berry. What makes the avocado so versatile is it’s sweet yet savoury flesh.

Avocados are high in fat, with 60% of this being monounsaturated fats, which research suggests helps to protect against heart disease and lower blood pressure. They are also an excellent source of potassium, folate and fibre, all of which benefit the heart and cardiovascular system.

Fun Fridays: Who was responsible for the largest poo ever recorded? You got it - a Viking! The largest poo ever recorded...
08/03/2024

Fun Fridays: Who was responsible for the largest poo ever recorded? You got it - a Viking! The largest poo ever recorded was found in York, England and belonged to a Viking with quite the appetite!

Scientists are hoping that this giant poo will reveal further details about the Viking diet. This particular poo, discovered in 1972, was an eye-watering 20 centimetres long and 5 centimetres in width!!!

Fun Fridays: How did Vikings clean their teeth? Many Vikings used picks to clean the gaps between their teeth, and some ...
08/03/2024

Fun Fridays: How did Vikings clean their teeth? Many Vikings used picks to clean the gaps between their teeth, and some historians believe they may also have used fibrous hazel twigs and similar tools as a kind of toothbrush.

The Viking skeletons discovered over the decades have usually had relatively strong teeth too.

Pictured is a genuine Viking grooming kit which includes a toothpick and could be clipped to your belt.

Fun Fridays: Why were Vikings obsessed with personal hygiene? Vikings valued their appearance and cleanliness. They spen...
08/03/2024

Fun Fridays: Why were Vikings obsessed with personal hygiene? Vikings valued their appearance and cleanliness. They spent time, effort and wealth on it, and they were about as clean as they practically could be during that time.

Vikings equated daily combing, grooming and cleanliness with self-respect and personal presentation with honour and self-worth.

Fun Fridays: What did Vikings use as medicine? The people in the Norse era were practising both magical and medical arts...
08/03/2024

Fun Fridays: What did Vikings use as medicine? The people in the Norse era were practising both magical and medical arts to deal with health issues.

Different remedies utilised local herbs to cure a wound, fix a broken bone, in anointing and bandaging. In some cases, Vikings would trade herbs to different regions to overcome a certain disease.

VIKING MEDICINAL HERBS

The herbs Vikings used for medicine included mugwort, waybroad (which modern people call plantain), stime (watercress), atterlothe, maythen (camomile), wergulu (nettle), crab-apple, chervil and fennel.

MOST FAMOUS VIKING PHYSICIAN

The best-known Viking physician was the Icelander, Hfran Sveinbjarnarson, (c1166-1213), who was highly regarded for his skills.

His medical treatments included lancing, cleaning wounds, anointing, bandaging, setting broken bones, preparing herbal remedies using local herbs, and midwifery.

Fun Fridays: What was the life expectancy for Vikings? The average life expectancy during the Viking age was 40-45. Give...
08/03/2024

Fun Fridays: What was the life expectancy for Vikings? The average life expectancy during the Viking age was 40-45. Given this fact, it was important that children could help and carry out the work of adults as soon as possible.

In Iceland, males were legally adults at the age of 16. Girls married at a very young age and were regarded as adults once they were married.

Fun Fridays: Were the Vikings healthy? While their general diet was a balanced one and relatively healthy, Vikings still...
08/03/2024

Fun Fridays: Were the Vikings healthy? While their general diet was a balanced one and relatively healthy, Vikings still fell prey to illness and were often victims of severe wounds suffered during battles.

Disease-transmitting parasites such as worms, lice, fleas and ticks and reservoirs of pathogens including plague, relapsing fever and typhus were all a major problem during the Viking era.

VIKING FOOD

From bones , seeds and other food remains at Viking sites, we know they are meat from farm animals, and from wild animals that they hunted, and collected food such as berries and nuts.

They cooked meat in a big stew-pot over the fire, or roasted it on an iron spit. Fish and meat were smoked or dried to preserve it.

Viking bread was made from rye or barley flour. They used milk mostly to make cheese and butter, then drank the leftover buttermilk.

At a feast, guests drank ale and mead (a strong drink made from honey). People drank out of wooden cups or drinking horns (made from cow horns). Feasts were held to mark funerals and seasonal festivals, such as midwinter.

The Viking dish pictured is salmon with flatbread and shagen sauce - looks pretty good to me!

Our Reception Team are here to help you get an appointment as soon as is practicable with a clinician who is fully train...
08/03/2024

Our Reception Team are here to help you get an appointment as soon as is practicable with a clinician who is fully trained to treat your condition - it might not always be a GP.

They will have to ask some personal questions about your symptoms so that they can match you up with the correct member of our Health Care Team.

We understand that, sometimes, it can be frustrating trying to get an appoinment, but please continue to be patient and kind with our Receptionists as they do their very best to help you.

If you have an appointment at Poplar House Surgery, please try and arrive 10 minutes early.Patients who arrive late will...
08/03/2024

If you have an appointment at Poplar House Surgery, please try and arrive 10 minutes early.

Patients who arrive late will not be seen as your appointment slot will have passed and the clinician will move on to the next appointment.

Please avoid disappointment and get here early. Thank you.

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