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Happy Feet For Summer

If you have a lot of rough and hard skin, foot conditions such as athletes foot, fungal nail infection, an ingrowing toe nail, calluses, corns or verrucas, a session or a number of appointments with a chiropodist or podiatrist is recommended. The terms are interchangeable, but strictly in the UK, ‘Podiatrist’ is a reserved title meaning that it can only be used by those registered with the Health Professions Council.

Inside the profession, chiropody is used to suggest the routine processes of foot care, whilst podiatry is indicative of the higher skills and academic levels.

Once any medical issues have been eliminated, you may wish to keep up the look and condition of your feet through pampering at home, or a trip to the beautician for a pedicure.

We’ve kept them hidden in shoes and boots all Winter, but when Summer comes it’s good to put on a pair of sandals or flip flops, or perhaps even walk around with bare feet. So, how can we make sure our feet are in tip-top condition and feel confident about showing them off to all around us?

Routine maintenance tasks should include: • Cutting your toe nails short. The use of clippers is generally recom-

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• Next, file your nails using an emery board. File them so they are smooth, neat and square.

• It’s good to soak your feet in a bowl of warm water and use a foot scrub or lotion to get them clean and feeling smooth and silky.

• Various tools and devices are available to help you file hard and crusty skin to make it smooth. At home and at a beautician’s this is likely to be a pumice based product. A chiropodist is more likely to use a blade.

• Apply moisturising cream daily and massage it in well, including be-

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• Once a week, gently push back your cuticles with a cuticle stick to keep your toes healthy.

If you want to beautify too, you can apply polish to your toe nails.

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Ongoing measures for foot health include putting your feet up after shopping sprees or long walks, and making sure shoes fit properly to prevent blisters or crushing of toes.

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Watermelon - Do you like the sensation of

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Watermelon can satisfy your sweet tooth without the calorie density of other fruit. Plus have a refreshing lift on hot days if kept in the fridge. It's high in water content (92%) but one average 9lb watermelon will still set you back 1355 cals. So do share it out!

Rocket salad - If you find plain salad boring to eat without a dressing, then try a side of mildly peppery rocket. It doesn't need to be swamped in high calorie sauce to taste good like a Caesar salad (470 vs 15 cals) and is a powerful antioxidant. So you will age more gracefully too!

Cucumber - another cooling agent for those hot summer days. Great when sliced and kept in the fridge for a snack instead of calorie heavy potato chips. (45 vs 500+ cals.) Add pink salt generously to treat your taste buds and replace precious electrolytes after sweating!

Steak or Quorn roast - Got a hankering to sink your teeth into something substantial?

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Lean protein keeps us fuller for longer so we will eat less!

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Chilli - if you have a sweet tooth and want to change

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Home&Garden Composting Composting is an inexpensive, natural process that transforms kitchen and garden waste into a valuable and nutrient-rich food for any garden. It’s both easy to make and use. By home composting, carbon captured by plants from the atmosphere is returned to the soil which helps maintain moisture levels, adds nutrients, improve the soil’s workability, and helps reduce the release of nitrous oxide. It also is a great way of recycling items that may otherwise be thrown away in the bin.

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In my opinion, worms have to be the unsung heroes of the garden.

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You may be happy to leave the worms well alone, merrily munching away in the compost heap, but why not have a go at mak-ing your own worm villa (known as a wormery), or buying a pre- made version online? Most kids love worms so it’s a great activity to do as a family, or indeed if you enjoy the idea of reducing landfill and nourishing your garden at the same time.Keeping a wormery is very easy, they come in a variety of sizes to suit all households and budgets, it will reduce kitchen waste and provide very nutritious soil for the garden.

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Once you’ve bought the wormery (mine came with Tiger Worms) setting it up requires the soil which the worms arrive in and any left over vegetables, but not onions and garlic or citrus fruit as these are too acidic. They particularly like teabags, crushed egg shells, cold mashed potato (I’ve heard that for worms these foods are like us eating oyster....they erm… put them in the mood for a little wriggle wriggle), cardboard and paper. My wormery is a multi- tray system. You start off feeding your food waste into the bottom tray. At the bottom of the trays above there are holes which allow the worms to transfer them-selves to the next level and as each tray fills, the worms move upwards to the waste in the next tray, leaving compost behind.

They are voracious eaters and it’s not long before the next tray is needed. You can harvest the earth about every three months. This can be quite messy, there will always

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be some worms left when the rest have moved up to the next level, so rubber gloves are a good idea.The soil which is removed can be mixed one part worm caste to three parts ordinary soil.The bottom of the wormery has a well for collecting the water (‘wee tea’), it also has a tap, the liquid should be drained and diluted (at 1:10 with water), and used as a very concentrated liquid fertiliser,There aren’t many problems with keeping a wormery the main ones I found were due to the wet and cold weather. In wet weather I found that there was often more liquid than I, or the worms could cope with so I leave the tap open, before I did this I sadly had quite a few drowned worms, a folded newspaper also helps keep the water from just running through and also helps with keeping the worms warm. If the weather is cold the wormery can be stored in the garage or wrapped in bubble wrap or agricultural fleece, If not they do freeze quite stiff, but do not cover the air holes on the lid.If there is a problem with ants, a little Vaseline on the legs of the wormery will soon sort it out.

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