StressNoMore Blog

It’s Cervical Cancer Prevention Week – a time to read up on the risks of cervical cancer and share with your friends the importance of getting screened regularly. There are 60,000 new cases of cervical cancer in Europe in and 30,000 deaths each year too. The only way that we will see these fatality rates fall is if women everywhere are clued up on the dangers and get themselves checked, so here are the facts.[1]

The Monday of the last full week of January has, since 2005, been declared ‘Blue Monday’. Scientific studies have claimed that a combination of bad weather, post-Christmas debt and a loss of motivation to stick to New Year’s resolutions makes us feel particularly down in the dumps on this day.

Today is STIQ Day, a day to raise awareness of sexually transmitted infections and to encourage everyone to question their sexual health. Although free sexual health tests are available to everybody on the NHS many feel too embarrassed to get checked, or simply think that they cannot have transmitted an infection since they’ve been with the same partner for many years.

You can’t deny yourself a few cheeky drinks with your colleagues at your work Christmas party can you? Then there’s the booze-filled festivities on Christmas Eve, and the hair-of-the-dog Buck’s Fizz on Christmas morning. Plus the get-togethers with friends and family around Christmas which usually require wine, beer, cocktails and spirits. And just when you thought that was it New Year’s Eve is round the corner and there’s yet more alcoholic merry-making to be done; you’ve just got to see in the new year with a few glasses champagne.