Below is my first ever YouTube clip giving a brief overview to what I do in the world of BodyCHEK. For those of you who prefer the written word, don't worry, I will continue to bring you the latest up to date health and lifestyle information in written form too.

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The reason I have not blogged for a few weeks is because I have been in the USA for the last two weeks.

  I spent the first week teaching CHEK Exercise Coach at the CHEK Institute with Josh Rubin. It's a really great course and a really great setting for teaching and for students to learn. I briefly caught up with my teacher, mentor and friend Paul Chek, the Founder of The CHEK Institute. A little time with Paul is always an experience.

  The second week I spent relaxing and catching up with friends in Miami Beach. It was great to spend time with friends that I haven't seen for a while, to relax the brain and get some sun. As you can see from the picture, the beaches are stunning. I also managed to take part in my friends yoga class and had a tennis session at Bolletieri's tennis centre in Flamingo Park in 85 degree heat and 67% humidity. That was interesting!.

Stay tuned as I will be continuing with some client's stories and I hope to get some videos on You Tube in the next month.

Keep well!

Indeed she quotes two Conservative MPs as saying, "I wouldn't wish the NHS on anyone" and "The NHS has been a 60 year mistake". But I couldn't agree more with these statements. Now, I do not have any allegiance to any major political party. However, when you step back and review the success of the NHS, how successful has it been?

Well, one success has been the fact that it has been the biggest employer in the UK. It provides jobs for people. However, its prime purpose was to provide healthcare. How well has it done in this sense? How much more healthy are we than at the end of the second world war? The rate of infant mortality seems to have reduced as has the level of death from infectious disease. But is this due to better health care or just improved hygiene levels? The level of emergency medical care, for instance, road traffic accident victims has improved greatly.

The truth is that heart disease is now in epidemic levels, as is cancer, diabetes, obesity and on and on and on. We have become a much more sick nation. So has the NHS been a success? Absolutely not!!!

Now, I'm not suggesting that a private medical system would be any better either.

What I am suggesting is that if you wish to become healthy, you need to follow a model of health, not a model of disease. The medical industry (it is an industry more than it is a service) is obsessed with disease. If you focus on disease, guess what you are going to create? Yes, more disease.

If you wish to achieve optimal health and vitality, you cannot expect someone else to heal you. Every cell in your body already knows what perfect health is. All you need to do is give your cells the right environment in which they have the opportunity to be healthy.

By choosing to give your body what it needs physically, mentally and emotionally you can achieve optimal health. It is not imperative that you pay huge taxes or medical insurance to live a healthy, vibrant and happy life. It's all down to the choices you make in life. What you choose to do today will make who you become tomorrow.