Fresheye Magazine. November Edition 2018

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Issue 35. November 2018 Photography Lifestyle Culture

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l New fitness Victoria Kain shows the way.

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l Spielberg

Film maker extraordinaire

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l Perform Jay-Z & Abramovic

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l Seek nature The importance. l Healthy option The good stuff. l Green city Singapore in green. l Gotta have it!

Product desire. l Sportswear Brand combat. l Veganism Animal opt out.

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The importance of n

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Everything us as humans need to survive throughout life and thrive, has been provided by the natural world around us; from food and water to medicine and materials for shelter, and even natural cycles such as climate and nutrients. Nature is one amazing resource which gives everything and everyone around us life.

Therefore, it’s no surprise that there are growing numbers of studies and campaigns highlighting evidence that a connection with nature makes us healthier and happier people. For example, studies have shown that people exposed to the natural world showed increased self-esteem levels, increased creativity, the ability to exercise effectively and the chance to discover new things.

In some cases nature can also significantly improve symptoms of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) as it provides a calming influence and helps to aid concentration. Nature is also a helpful source for people suffering from physical or mental health illnesses, such as depression

Mother nature for nurture.

and anxiety, as interacting and being part of nature can help people control their symptoms or even recover, due to the calming relief and clarity nature provides, with additional conventional medication.

Nature isn’t a miracle cure for disease, but by simple interacting with it, spending time

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Sophie says.....

nature in life in it and experiencing and appreciating it around us, we can reap the benefits and numerous rewards it provides to help us feel happier and healthier.

Research evidence also provides information that exposure to nature can reduce hypertension otherwise known as abnormally high blood pressure, respiratory tract and cardiovascular illnesses.

Also if you need an instant mood boost, going for a walk or doing an activity outside has been proven to improve vitality and mood and restore attention capacity and mental fatigue.

But as well as that, it has even more to give!

As feeling a part of nature has been shown to significantly correlate with life satisfaction, vitality, meaningfulness, happiness, mindfulness, and lower cognitive anxiety.

by Sophie Fitzjohn.

Wake up to the natural world.

With all this positive evidence that nature can have such a good impact on us, there is a need to normalise everyday nature as part of a healthy lifestyle. The real challenge is getting more people involved, so they can to experience the real benefits of nature and all it has to offer.

In this case it’s also a reciprocal relationship because as important as nature has been shown for our health benefits and overall happiness, our interactions with the natural world are just as important for protecting nature and the environment too. This is because the more people care intrinsically for their local environments and value the positive impact it has on their own lives, and others around them, the more they’ll want to protect the environment from damage and destruction.

It’s about caring for, cherishing and protecting our environments and wild spaces, which give us so many rewards, benefits and positivity so freely, it’s for natures sake and for ours.

Quote - “Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.”

Albert Einstein

“One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.”

William Shakespeare

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The Healthy Option

ating a healthy, balanced diet is an important part of maintaining good health, and can help you feel your best. This means eating a wide variety of foods in the right proportions, and consuming the right amount of food and drink to achieve and maintain a healthy body weight..

Are you getting your 5 A Day? Fruit and vegetables should make up just over a third of the food we eat each day.

There’s evidence that people who eat at least 5 portions a day have a lower risk of heart

disease, stroke and some cancers.

Eating 5 portions is not as hard as it sounds.

Just 1 apple, banana, pear or similar-sized fruit is 1 portion (80g).

9A slice of pineapple or melon is 1 portion.

Three heaped tablespoons of vegetables is another portion.

Having a sliced banana with your morning cereal is a quick way to get 1 portion. Swap your mid-morning biscuit for a tangerine, and add a side salad to your lunch. Have a portion of vegetables with dinner, and snack on fresh fruit with natural plain yoghurt in the evening to reach your 5 A Day.

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Fatty fish - Salmon.

Fish and shellfish are nutrient dense and salmon is no exception. It is an excellent source of highquality protein, vitamins and minerals (including potassium, selenium and vitamin B12) but it is their content of omega-3 fatty acids that receives the most attention, and rightly so.

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Advocado Loaded with nutrients such as vitamin C, vitamin K, vitamin B, vitamin E, and vitamin A. Avocados are also a good source of dietary fiber, which helps reduce the risk of heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and obesity

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Avocado and Pomegranate.

Pomegranates are rich in vitamin C, potassium, and fiber.

The majority of that fiber is found in the white seeds hiding beneath the pockets of juice.

It contains 48 percent of the recommended daily vitamin C intake, important for a variety of health functions.

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Red wine Gerald Scarfe was born in London. After a brief period at the Royal College of Art in London, he established himself as a satirical cartoonist, working for Punch magazine and Private Eye during the early sixties, and in 1967 he began a long association with the Sunday Times as their political cartoonist, also carrying out reportage assignments in Vietnam, the Middle East, India and Northern Ireland.

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Red wine, broccoli, spinach, garlic.

Broccoli belongs to the cruciferous vegetable family, which includes kale, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, bok choy, cabbage, collard greens, rutabaga, and turnips. ... If you are trying to eat healthier, cruciferous vegetables like broccoli should be at the very top of your grocery list.

When you eat spinach that has been heated, you will absorb higher levels of vitamins A and E, protein, fiber, zinc, thiamin, calcium, and iron.

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Olive oil Extra virgin olive oil, part of the Mediterranean diet, is a traditional fat that has been a dietary staple for some of the world’s healthiest populations. Olive oil has more monounsaturated fat than other oils, a great choice for heart-healthy cooking.

Dark chocolate A dose of dark chocolate could decrease your risk of heart attack and stroke by nearly 40 percent. But it matters what type of dark chocolate you nibble on. For the heart health benefits, reach for at least 70 percent cacao, which is fairly bitter without the added fat and sugar.

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Olive oil, chocolate, nuts.

Research shows that eating nuts daily offers a bounty of benefits. Here’s why you should aim for a handful a day. Researchers say that the high levels of fiber, polyunsaturated fats, and magnesium may all contribute to lower cholesterol and improved heart health.

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Watermelon A powerful antioxidant that helps maintain healthy eye function. Folates: important for healthy growth and maintenance of cells within the body. Vitamin C and Potassium.

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Watermelon, cinamon.

Cinnamon is a great source of fiber , manganese, and calcium. Its research-tested benefits are diverse, but these are the big ones: Antioxidants: Cinnamon has been shown to act as a powerful antioxidant.

In fact, it beat out more than two dozen other foods in terms of antioxidant capacity in one study–.

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Green tea More health benefits than black tea which can be attributed to its lack of processing.

Higher in protective polyphenols. The major polyphenols in green tea are flavonoids, the most active of which are catechins and epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG) which function as powerful antioxidants.

fresheyecourses.com Berries to the rescue! Berries are bright, flavorful, and sweet superfruits that have a long list of health benefits. These colorful fruits are high in antioxidants and polyphenols, which help fight chronic disease and cancer. And their health benefits just keep getting sweeter.

Berries, outmeal and fruit.

Oats help reduce your cholesterol levels and keep your heart healthy. It is a key food item that has proven to be good for the heart.Prevents Constipation: Oats are a rich source of fiber, both soluble and insoluble, which helps in regulating bowel movements and hence prevents constipation.

Apples, pears and bananas are good sources of energy-producing nutrients, primarily in the form of carbohydrate. Each fruit contains only a small amount of protein and essentially no fat, with the majority of its nutrients in the form of fructose, a natural and simple sugar found in fruits. Each is also relatively low calorie, with a medium apple or pear providing 95 to 100 calories and a medium banana containing 105 calories. Because your body metabolizes simple sugars such as fructose rapidly, converting them into glucose which is absorbed into your blood, these fruits are good choices when you need a quick energy boost, for example just before or after exercising.

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Green city

Singapore - Asia’s greenest city by Dennis Sterne.

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nown as Asia’s greenest city, , and with one of the highest population densities in the world, Singapore has long favoured innovative environmentally friendly ideas.

Singapore’s meteoric economic rise launched a landscape of towering architecture in the compact city-state, but as the metropolis continues to grow, urban planners are weaving nature throughout, and even into its heights. New developments must include plant life, in the form of green roofs, cascading vertical gardens, and verdant walls.

The push to go green extends to construction - green building has been mandatory since 2008.

Much of that vision to keep Singapore both sustainable and livable stems from Cheong Koon Hean, the first woman to lead Singapore’s urban development agency. The veteran architect and urban planner is credited with reshaping the skyline through landmark

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projects such as the waterfront residential and entertainment quarter Marina Bay - whose gardens are one of the city’s top draws - and the Jurong Lake District, slated to be a second business district and home to a new highspeed rail link to neighboring Malaysia.

Cheong is now CEO of the Housing and Development Board, which builds and manages public housing for most of Singapore’s 5.6 million people. Singapore’s sleek version of public housing emphasizes community-centric towns (there are 23) and amenities.

Park Royal on Pickering The hotel (right)was designed by WOHA, a Singapore-based architecture firm known for incorporating extensive greenery in their buildings. Designed to be a ‘hotel-in-a-garden’, Parkroyal on Pickering features extensive greenery, including green walls, water features and 15,000 square meters of tiered ‘sky u

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Above - Park Royal completed in 2013 by award winng archtect Richard Hassell - WOHA. Left - Gardens by the Bay. Gardens by the Bay is an independent organisation responsible for developing and managing one of Asia’s foremost garden destinations.

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The hotel’s sky gardens are designed to be self-sustaining consuming minimal energy through solar cells, motion sensors, rainwater harvesting and reclaimed water.

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Bishan Bishan, also known as either Bishan New Town or Bishan Town, is a planning area and matured residential town located at the northernmost portion of the Central Region of Singapore. Statistically, the area is ranked the 38th biggest in terms of geographical size and the 21st most populated planning area in the country. It is located at the most Central point of Singapore, and is made out of Upper Thomson, Sin ming, Bishan North, Marymount and Bishan east. There are also many private residential properties in Bishan.

This however, makes Bishan ranked 15th in terms of population density.

Bishan New Town became the first in Singapore to depart from the brutalist design seen in most previous Housing and Development Board (HDB) towns. Instead of slab-like residential blocks that were built in uniformed rows, apartment blocks in Bishan varied in height and were often dislocated.

Flats within the town also featured pitched roofs which have since become closely associated with the skyline of Bishan. The town is also home to two of Singapore’s most prestigious educational institutions, Catholic High School and Raffles Institution.

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Bishan Planning Area, as defined by Singapore’s Urban Redevelopment Authority is situated in the Central Region of Singapore, bounded by planning areas of Ang Mo Kio to the north, Toa Payoh to the south and Serangoon to the east.

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Bishan derived its name from the Cantonese term for large burial ground, Peck San Theng which literally translates as ‘pavilions on the green’.

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Think active, think sports, and be full of vitality.

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Experienced vegan

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egan is undoubtably cool. Search for #vegan and you are awash with colourful pictures of post workout snacks, and enough avocados to feed a small nation for a week. It’s not just posts in Instagram; the number of vegans has staggeringly climbed by over 350% in the past ten years too. Prolific celebrities have played a part in making veganism to be cool, with characters such as Beyoncé, Brad Pitt and Ariana Grande adopting the vegan lifestyle. And not to mention the recent popularity of Veganuary.

So what does vegan actually mean? Can I still wear blue suede shoes? The vegan society define vegan as “a way of living that seeks to exclude, as far as possible and practicable, all forms of exploitation, and cruelty to animals for food, clothing or any other purpose”. So, blue suede shoes are out of the question.

Being vegan in 2018 involves an overhaul of your whole lifestyle: from your diet, to your clothes and even down to the shampoo that you use. But what if you just want to be a bit healthier? What if you only want to look at your diet? How do you get started?

The approved avoidance of animal consumption

by Harry Fishpool.

I am vegan and the purpose of this article is to pass on the little tricks that I used to get my self going on a vegan diet. Some people can change their whole lifestyle in seemingly effortless heartbeat. Some people find it harder and, naturally, it takes more time. I am the latter of the two: it took me 6 months to shift onto a vegan diet.

First up, the ‘five colours’ rule. Getting five portions of fruit and veg in can be a bit of a bore, and you feel you are blindly following your grandmother’s eternal message of ‘at your greens’. Start with 5 colours a day; yellow, red, blue, green and green. Get fruits and veggies of these colours in and you’ll be on your way.

You can even build it up to 5 colours with a meal. It’s a great way of making your meals a bit more exciting! After all, they say you eat

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Credit Harry Fishpool is studying an a MSc in Human Nutrition at University of Surrey.

His wine knowledge gained from WSET level 3 Award in Wine.

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Your vegan journey will mos likely start in the supermarket. When I first started to explore veganism, one of my tricks was to do a normal food shop, but just before getting to the checkout, I would swap a non-vegan food with something that was vegan. You can swap anything: milk for soya milk, sausages for meat-free sausages, or mincemeat for lentils.

The possibilities are seemingly endless. After a while, you will gradually acclimatise yourself to a vegan diet. If you are willing to give it time it is a great way to discover new foods.

Eating out when vegan can be tricky. Most restaurants have vegetarian and vegan options available on their menus. More often than not, vegetarian dishes can be altered slightly to suit a vegan. Normally it will just be the chef giving the dish a miss on the final flurry of parmesan cheese or dollop of crème fraîche.

Also, as a guest of the restaurant, it’s your job to hold up your end of the bargain. You can’t suddenly decide you deserve a dessert or a swig of Bailey’s. Nothing annoys restaurant staff more than a flip-flopping customer!

But after you’ve put your order in and your meal comes out of the kitchen, it will arrive to you with crip colour, fabulous flavour and tantalising texture. All your friends will be eyeballing your dinner and licking their lips, whilst you sit with a grin on your face, from ear to ear, and hear jealous cries of ‘oh, I wish I chose that!’.

More and more people are turning to a vegan diet for the health benefits: increased energy, younger looking skin and eternal youth are just some of the claims from enthusiastic plant eaters.

Well, eternal youth might be a bit optimistic, but there are certainly many scientifically proven benefits to vegan living when compared to the average western diet.

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Personal Trainer Exclusive...

New fitness for a new you

A personal training discovery by Dennis Sterne.

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here comes a time when a rebirth needs to happen in a person’s life.

This is certainly true when considering a programme for your health and fitness regime. People are more aware of the health benefits that fitness can bring to promote the longevity of life and the well-being associated with being fit and in good condition.

My new discovery amongst many this year comes in the shape of a woman called Victoria Kain. She has launched a personal training service that essentially will speak to people like her. Victoria’s mantra is to help people with a limited time to exercise. She also wants to motivate the middle-aged, new mothers and those who have limited experience with being in the fitness environment. With

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respect to such an audience, it’s comforting to see her Instagram page has ‘realness’ in its imagery. No filters, lip pumping or butt lifts in sight. And what a refreshing revelation it is to be void of such imagery that can be too desperate to promote seemingly unreachable heights of aesthetic achievement. And in some cases, questionable aesthetics too. Be assured that when you attend a session at her new gym you can be received with no claim of her just having completed a marathon, Ironman triathlon or recently returned from an expedition to Mount Everest.

But of course, Victoria does possess a healthy thirst for being active. A self-confessed early tomboy she loves football, tennis, waterskiing, skiing, bike riding, and netball. u She brings a knowledge of fitness nutrition

Wellbeing

Join Victoria on a journey to a healthier lifestyle whilst dealing with the ageing process and daily trials and tribulations of family and life commitments.

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She highlights strength, stability, and mobility as the point of focus for her training. She eludes to The TUG test as a reference. This is the time that a person takes to rise from a chair, walk three meters, turn around, walk back to the chair, and sit down. One source suggests that scores of ten seconds or less indicate normal mobility, 11–20 seconds are within normal limits for frail elderly and disabled patients, and greater than 20 seconds means the person needs assistance outside and indicates further examination and intervention. A score of 30 seconds or more suggests that the person may be prone to falls.

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She loves to cook and tells me her partner Neil is handy in the kitchen too. ‘He finds cooking very therapeutic’ she says. I agree with the positive effects that the action of cooking brings. Speaking with Victoria reminded me that it’s all too easy to lose sight of the fact that a good diet and exercise not only promotes longevity and well-being; it very importantly is a great vehicle to combat desease. It makes sense incorporating desease prevention in a lifestyle as opposed to treating desease.

Prevention and not cure as the saying goes.

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Sound advice for the coming festive season: Start with a healthy breakfast ensuring blood sugar levels are stabilised to decrease cravings and snack attacks! Don’t skip meals and when out healthy options rule!

Substitute fizzy drinks and when drinking alcohol stick to clear spirits. Stay hydrated with 6-8 glasses of water per day.

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Discover a new fitter you with Victoria Kain. Join her on a journey to a healthier lifestyle. www.victoriakain.com

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Film maker

In September 1999, Spielberg was named Best Director of the 20th Century in an Entertainment Weekly on-line poll, substantially beating out runners-up Alfred Hitchcock and Stanley Kubrick.

Right: Borack Obama awards Steven Spielberg the Presidential Medal Of Freedom.

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Spielberg right ahead A pioneer leading the way in storytelling.

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ne of the most influential personalities in the history of cinema, Steven Spielberg is Hollywood’s best known director and one of the wealthiest filmmakers in the world. He has an extraordinary number of commercially successful and critically acclaimed credits to his name, either as a director, producer or writer since launching the summer blockbuster with Jaws (1975), and he has done more to define popular filmmaking since the mid-1970s than anyone else.

The classic shark attack tale started the tradition of the summer blockbuster or, at least, he was credited with starting the tradition. His next film was the classic Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), a unique and original UFO story that remains a classic.

Born December 18, 1946 he is considered one of the founding pioneers of the New Hollywood era.

Heights Spielberg hit gold with Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), with Harrison Ford taking the part of Indiana Jones. He produced and directed two films in 1982. The first was Poltergeist (1982), but the highest-grossing movie of all time up to that point was the alien story E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982). Spielberg also helped pioneer the practice of product placement.

Production Spielberg produced a series of films, including Evolution (2001), The Haunting (1999) and Shrek (2001). he also produced two sequels to Jurassic Park (1993), which were financially but not particularly critical successes.

Awards Steven Spielberg’s track record with the Oscars. 2 – Number of directing Oscars Steven Spielberg has won (“Schindler’s List,” “Saving Private Ryan”), with seven nominations

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Cross Over Never the twain shall meet...

Not in the case of Jay Z and Marina Abramovic. When genres intertwine, the result can see a new level experience of art that brings a hightened expression.

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The joining of minds.

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Marina Abramović is a Serbian performance artist. Her work explores the relationship between performer and audience, the limits of the body, and the possibilities of the mind. Being active for over four decades, Abramović refers to herself as the “grandmother of performance art.” She pioneered a new notion of identity by bringing in the participation of observers, focusing on “confronting pain, blood, and physical limits of the body.”

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“You see, my purpose of a performance artist is to stage certain difficulties and stage the fear the primordial fear of pain, of dying, all of which we have in our lives, and then stage them in front of audience and go through them and tell the audience, ‘I’m your mirror; if I can do this in my life, you can do it in yours.”

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Shawn Corey Carter known professionally as Jay-Z, American rapper, entrepreneur, songwriter, and record producer.

He is one of the world’s best-selling music artists, and one of the most acclaimed rappers of all time.

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“I’m hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter. That’s what this world is about. You look at someone like Gandhi, and he glowed. Martin Luther King glowed. Muhammad Ali glows. I think that’s from being bright all the time, and trying to be brighter.”

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Cocktail Cocktails are traditionally thought of as an American innovation, but they were actually at least partly inspired

by British punches - big bowls of spirits mixed with fruit juice, spices, and other flavors, consumed in punch houses in the 18th century. The term ‘Cocktail’ was first seen in a British newspaper printed March of 1798.

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Margarita Mocktail. This delicious margarita comes with all the flavors you’ve come to expect (lime, orange and a salted rim), a few new surprises (grapefruit and almond) and one notable omission: tequila.

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Cocktail

Above: Add shiso, mint, and simple syrup to a highball glass.

Muddle, pressing gently, until mint fragrance is noticeable; do not tear or mash the leaves. Add apple juice, cucumber vinegar, and lime juice and fill glass with ice. Stir until well chilled, about 10 seconds. Garnish with shiso leaf and serve immediately.

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Above: Non Alcoholic Mojito. Non Alcoholic Mojito - a refreshing blend of mint leaves, apple juice, lime juice, elderflower cordial and soda water.

Left: Inspired by coquito, the Puerto Rican holiday punch. Combine the bananas, coconut milk, maple syrup, and nutmeg in a blender. Pulse a few times to begin to break up the bananas then blend on high until completely smooth, about 1 minute.

Serve garnished with additional nutmeg if desired.

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Cocktail

Above: This delicious and nutritious NonAlcoholic Strawberry Daiquiri is refreshingly sweet and takes mere seconds to prepare.

Blend all ingredients until smooth. Garnish with a strawberry.

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Above: Non-alcoholic Holiday punch. Cranberry, orange juice, apple cider and club soda cocktail.

Garnish with cinnomon stick,orange slice, cranberries and apple slices.

Left: Peach and Passionfruit Cooler.

Peach Puree, Cranberry Juice, Passionfruit Monin topped with Lemonade.

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Portrait of a woman Erin O’connor is a classic beauty.

On closure inspection she reveals an androgeny that is intriguing to the point of distraction. Her sillouette and essence have been compared to women from a bygone fashion era that even shaped the classic poses that define feminine form.

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“Someone once referred to modeling as being like winning the lottery gene pool. It’s such an odd way to put things, but what is different about modelling is that the industry often picks you.”

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At school I was very shy and coincidentally inherited the title ‘little miss worry guts,’ and that was just among the staff. I learned early on that I could make people laugh, and as my small neat body betrayed me by growing to dizzying heights, I used it as a tool that translated into complete slap-stick comedy.

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“It’s not about hiding your imperfections on a shoot; it’s about embracing them and being unapologetic about them.”

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Clothes are like a suit of armour when you’re young. I was quite a shy teen, so I wanted to make aggressive statements with the way I looked.

I’d say my goth/ indie stage was the worst: there was a lot of experimentation involving pink food dye in my fringe.

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“In the early days of my modelling career, I think the industry was uncomfortable with how strikingly different I was.�

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Water - I drink gallons of it! You can use the most luxurious skincare products in the world, but they won’t work as well if you do not hydrate from inside.

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“I see myself as the female John Cleese.”

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Therapy

Some of the health benefits of aromatherapy include its ability to reduce anxiety, ease depression, boost energy levels, speed up the healing process, eliminate headaches, boost cognitive performance, induce sleep, strengthen the immune system, reduce pain, improve digestion and increase circulation.

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Aromatherapy Understanding the benefits.

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romatherapy is an alternative form of holistic therapy that uses essential oils to help improve and balance you both emotionally and physically, while helping you to take time out for yourself, to be mindful and to reconnect with yourself, even for a moment. The aromas experienced through aromatherapy and essential oils have a dynamic effect on the mind and body.

Effect The effect is experienced through the sense of smell which is linked to the deepest parts of the brain governed by your basic instincts, thoughts and emotions. On a physical level, essential oils help to ease muscular aches and pains, improve circulation, ease sinus congestion and act as a strong antioxidant.

Other than receiving aromatherapy treatments, you can experience the benefits of aromatherapy in the comfort of your own home with the use of essential oils. Find a moment to yourself to create the perfect therapeutic ambiance with a Bath & Shower Oil and enjoy a moment of mindfulness to find balance. Experience the full ritual with other aromatherapy products such as candles

or pure essential oils on a burner to create the perfect surroundings.

Plant extracts have been used for thousands of years for their exquisite aromas and natural healing powers. Rich in botanical activity and antioxidants, plant oils encourage radiant, healthy skin, working at a cellular level to keep the complexion soft and looking youthful.

By harnessing their therapeutic properties, aromatherapy works to improve our physical, mental and emotional wellbeing.

Treat the mind, body and spirit.

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Going Cript underground St Martin-In-The-Fields.

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he Café in the Crypt is, as the name suggests, a café in the crypt of St Martin in the Fields. One of Trafalgar Square’s best kept secrets (until we go and include it in this guide), the café has been serving up excellently priced for food for central London for the past 30 years. And it’s got atmosphere in bucket loads with the original brick-vaulted ceilings and historic tombstones lining the floor. It’s going to beat any Starbucks in the area, that’s for sure.

Where: St Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square, WC2N 4JH. Monday - Tuesday:10:00 - 20:00.

Wednesday:10:00 - 22:30.

Thursday - Saturday:10:00 - 21:00 Sunday:11:00 - 18:00 Website: www.stmartin-in-the-fields.org

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Food is freshly prepared on-site using ingredients from local and national sustainable sources wherever possible.

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