Carrie Armstrong

TV Presenter, Blogger, Geordie

Making sobriety your b*tch means you get to be in charge. No, you do not drink. No, you do not think about it. Do not entertain it as option. Your body is not going to go renegade and pour itself a drink. Become obsessed with sobriety. Why is it such a strange suggestion?

Dr Patrick Bowler

Founder of Courthouse Clinics and founding member of the British College of Aesthetic Medicine

Anyone can suffer from thread or varicose veins- nearly half of women and a quarter of men will experience symptoms in their lives. The difference between the sexes, though, is that women seek out treatment. Men typically don't: or at least not until it's too late.

Dr Khandee Ahnaimugan

Medical doctor and weight loss expert

What should you do when you're trying to lose weight, and you feel hungry? This is a common situation that many people come across. And working out a good response to hunger is crucial to successful weight loss.

Rachael Krishna

History student in London, searching for an opinion

The media know nothing about what personally makes you happy. You know what your body likes. I am sick of journalists or magazines trying to promote a one size fits all policy. These blood type, eye colour body mass index diets leave you feeling empty and defeated when you can only survive off grapefruit juice for ten minutes.

Andy Brown

Writer, editor, social media executive

Even though I was working a number of different jobs at the event and didn't get the chance to attend as many sessions as I would have wanted (hint hint managers), it was still a great chance to assess where the industry is currently at. What I saw was further confirmation of what I had already thought, rather than anything drastically new.

Zion Lights

Journalist interested in social and urban issues including sustainability, ethics and environmentalism. Columnist at One Green Planet

It was late at night when I accidentally consumed dairy, which I am - apparently - deadly allergic to. My tongue swelled up straight away, followed by my lips and throat. I looked in the mirror and tried to decide how serious it was. Probably not very, I thought.

Charli Cohen

Personal Trainer, Sportswear Designer and self-confessed Fitness Junkie

There is little more soul destroying than putting your all into something and seeing no progress. I receive emails and messages daily from frustrated dieters who, despite sticking to their plan 'perfectly', are not seeing any results and are one more disappointing weigh-in away from giving up entirely.

Rupert Parker

Writer, Photographer, Filmmaker

Now in its 6th year, Peixe em Lisboa takes place over 10 days, with cooking classes, wine pairings, chef demonstrations and tasting dishes provided by top Portuguese restaurants.

Glen Matten

Nutritionist, writer and full-on foodie

Can there be a diet more of the moment than the 'Paleo Diet' (OK, the 5:2 diet excepted...)? For the uninitiated (and I don't suppose there can be that many of you by now), it's a dietary (and lifestyle) dictum that encourages us to go back in time and adopt the dietary (and exercise) habits of our ancient hunter-gatherer forebears.

Gloria Halim

Holistic Health Coach & Author

How do you get your iron levels back up the natural way? The best way is to increase your intake of iron rich foods. If you are prescribed iron tablets by your doctor for any reason, please do take them but to avoid getting to that severe point where you would need tablets, include iron rich foods as part of your daily diet.

Sam Feltham

Entrepreneur & Health Activist

For the past 40 years fat has been labelled as the bad guy in nutrition but growing evidence is showing that natural fat whether saturated or unsaturated has no detrimental effects on the human body and is actually beneficial for health if anything.

Realbuzz.com

An inspiring healthy active living community

If you've been adhering to a strict healthy eating and fitness plan for a while but are failing to see the results, it may be time take a look at what is sabotaging your success. From dieting blunders to physical factors, here are the top 10 reasons why you're not losing weight.

Daniel Bartlett

Owner of Daniel Alexandra Holistic Health and Fitness

If a fast metabolism is not something you were born with, follow these 10 rules to help speed it up.

Iain Mahony

Personal Trainer

I have written before that stress will eventually lead to people, who are normally vigilant with their diet, going 'tonto' - and losing control. Check: there is a wonderful photo of me gazing amorously at a slice of pizza like it is Monica Belluci. I didn't meet a single carb that I didn't like in Spain. Once I started eating badly, I didn't stop.

Hannah Bradley

Diagnosed with cancer in 2011 and has since undergone treatment to reduce her tumour

My name is Hannah Bradley. I am 28 years old and in February 2011 my world took a dramatic turn, when, out of the blue, I had a major seizure in the middle of the night.

Mette Poynton

Founder of www.TheOnlineMagazines.co.uk

In the past month, I've had quite a few people ask me nicely how my diet is going... my responses have included, "Leave me alone", "That's none of your business" and "Ah, that's my landline ringing, gotta get it, Byeee".