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Kid’s Health – keep it simple!
Take the Simple Approach to Kids and Health
Parenting has become so complicated these days! On the one hand, it’s great to have tons of advice on hand on how to be a better parent, yet on the other hand there often conflicting techniques, leading to info overload!! In Unislim’s experience, it’s always best to keep things simple. Simple changes make all the difference.
When it comes to the health of our children, simplicity is also key – forget the junk foods or the foods with added colours and e-numbers. Instead, fill your fridge with natural, unprocessed foods. A ‘back to basics’ plan could also mean switching off the telly and getting outside…
Published in Healthy Living
Cholesterol Busting Foods!
The best eating plan for anyone worried about their cholesterol is to enjoy a diet low in saturated fat and abundant in fruits and vegetables, which is great for us Unislimer’s as our Food Maximizing plan does just that! As we get older we become more susceptible to higher cholesterol levels and it’s not always our diet that’s to blame; other risk factors such as lifestyle, stress and family history all contribute but the good news is that by eating well and exercising regularly we can reduce our risk. Although there are no magic bullets beyond that healthy prescription, certain foods have been shown to give cholesterol levels an extra nudge in the right direction; so…
Published in Healthy Living
Shape Up Your Family 2012 Featured
Unislim has teamed up with The Irish Daily Mail to offer two families the chance to give their lives a complete makeover by take part in the ‘Shape Up Your Family Challenge 2012’.
The two families who have been chosen to take part in Unislim’s Shape Up Your Family Challenge are Annette and Michael Magee from Killiney, Co Dublin and their daughters Aine and Sarah and Tara and Paul Reddin from Walkinstown, Dublin 12 and their daughters Taylor and Lexie. Each family will join Unislim on a complete lifestyle makeover to help change their eating habits, develop new cooking skills, adopt a healthier diet and become more physically active. They’ll be working with Unislim’s top nutritionists, fitness experts and motivational…
Published in Health
Look good and feel great this New Year with go ahead!
Ireland’s favourite healthier biscuit brand, go ahead!, with its range of great tasting better-for-you snacks, are now teaming up with Unislim, the Irish owned health and slimming company, to offer customers a great saving of €20 on 6 weeks Unislim membership.
At Unislim we encourage members to enjoy healthy snacks. go ahead! is a guilt-free snack you can enjoy and still lose weight which is why it fits perfectly with our Unislim plan.’ says Fiona Gratzer Managing Director of Unislim
Kicking off the New Year with a good start couldn’t be easier with these three simple steps:
1. Purchase any go ahead! pack
2. Take your till receipt to…
Published in Articles
Ten Healthy Snack FoodsAs well as three well balanced meals a day, Unislim encourage you to eat two healthy snacks per day to stave off hunger and keep blood sugars level – as well as our moods! If you’re not a ‘snacker’, you may think that’s a good thing, but not necessarily as many of us overeat, or eat the wrong foods by actually leaving it too long in between our meals. Then we feel overwhelmingly tired and hungry, causing us to reach for the wrong types of foods lurking in our food cupboards before dinner is on the table. The key is to get snacking folks – just choose the right ones! Here's ten healthy snacking ideas you'll…
Published in Foods
Good Foods = Good Moods
At Unislim we firmly believe that good foods help to enhance and improve our moods! The right foods can help us feel better and even lift our moods on a miserable wet and windy day. So, it makes sense to include mood-boosting foods in our daily diet. Although the links between diet and wellbeing, or mental health, are less clearly understood than links between diet and physical health, there is still plenty of evidence to show that what we eat and drink can and does affect how we feel. That’s even more reason to take a closer look at what’s on our plate.
Brain Food
It all centres around the brain’s chemicals, or ‘neurotransmitters’, which…
Published in Healthy Living
McVitie's Go Ahead! biscuits are a delicious, tasty, healthy treat for any time of the day! But now there's even more reason to pop a delicious pack into your shopping basket as Go Ahead! have teamed up with UniSlim to offer you an exclusive New Year offer. Kick-start 2012 the healthy way by saving €20 on Unislim membership with every pack of promotional biscuits you buy!
This offer is exclusive to Unislim in ROI and promotional packs can be purchased in all participating supermarkets while stocks last. Membership is for 6 weeks and is RRP €70 for the price of €50.00
Plus any member who loses 1 stone in 6 weeks will have a chance to WIN €1,000. For more…
Published in Healthy Living
NEW 7 Day Quick Loss Plan! Featured
Feel Great and Lose Weight with Unislim’s New 7 Day Quick Loss Plan
Losing weight is ranked as the No 1 New Year resolution people make each January. Some people try it on their own, some join a gym, some try the latest fad diet, but many people unfortunately fail after a few weeks and fall back into their old bad eating and exercise habits. However, Unislim offers something different to help people achieve their goal and with a proven track record of helping thousands of people in Ireland each year reach target weight it's good to know that there is a healthy option that works!
A recent study of almost 800 overweight adults proved the success of slimming…
Published in Healthy Living
50% of Slimmers Happier! Featured
Almost 50% of UniSlim Members Say they are Happier when they Lose Weight!
UniSlim joins Nutrition & Health Foundation in bid to tackle Ireland’s obesity epidemic
Joint research from the Nutrition & Health Foundation (NHF) and UniSlim - to mark the organisation becoming a member of the NHF - shows alarming gaps in the rate of medical diagnosis of overweight and obesity in Ireland. According to the survey of Unislim members*, despite joining the programme to lose weight almost 3 out of 4 (73%) respondents have never been diagnosed as either overweight or obese by a healthcare professional.
According to Fiona Gratzer, Managing Director of Unislim Ireland, the survey reveals valuable insights from Unislim members as to what policymakers…
Published in Articles
Fiona Gratzer, Managing Director of Unislim is nominated for IMAGE Businesswoman of the Year Awards 2011
It’s been a busy year for Unislim and what a great way to finish of the year with the news that Fiona Gratzer, Managing Director of Unislim, has been shortlisted for IMAGE Businesswoman of the Year 2011. The shortlist was announced last week and the nominees in each of the five categories are a strong group of Ireland’s leading businesswomen.
Fiona was ‘born’ in to the job having taken over the reins from her mother Agnes McCourt. ‘Standing Still’ is not part of Fiona’s vocabulary. Having successfully launched the Shape UP Ireland campaign in January 2011 in partnership with the Irish Daily Mail. Fiona…
Published in Healthy Living
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