In the past 30 plus years we have all been brainwashed into thinking that a low fat diet is a healthy way of eating. There has been been so much press coverage about the dangers of eating fat, in particular saturated fat, that many people now think that all fats are bad for them. This is not true. A low-fat diet …
Aesthetic Dermatology Trends 2016
Trend 1: ‘LESS IS MORE’ with regards to non-surgical treatments. A strong trend for 2016 is to have regular, on-going small ‘tweakments’ rather than overdoing it with drastic treatments. There are far too many overdone people walking around these days (and you can see many of them at professional aesthetic events…). As a rule of thumb you can say, if …
Shower water – do we really have to be worried?
You might have read the horror stories about the dangers of tap water in last weeks press. So what about the skin – is there really a health risk when it comes to our skin? Tap water coming from shower heads have in deed been shown in studies to harbor various microbes such as bacteria and fungi. So in theory …
Can cold weather be harmful for our skin?
Up to now, the UK weather has be uncharacteristically warm this winter, hasn’t it? I actually felt that it didn’t feel very christmassy this year because of the strangely mild weather. However, that’s just about to change. Believe it or not – apparently it’s going to be snowing this week! So what are the dangers of cold weather for our …
Sleep & skin questions for Dr Stefanie Williams
Q1: How important is a good night’s sleep for having great skin? A: A good night sleep is very important for when it comes to our skin. With increasingly hectic lifestyles, it is easy for us to become stressed through a lack of sleep, and stress can play a major part in our skin health. Persistent high levels of stress …