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Holding back the years
The anti-ageing product market is vast and various, and this month we’ve been on the hunt for the best new products. First up, we love the anti-ageing facial oil from organic pioneers, Green People. Omega 3 and 6, pure essential oils and vitamins nourish the skin and improve its elasticity. It has a wonderful floral scent from Rosemary, Rose Geranium, Sunflower and Safflower. You only need a few drops, mind, so that your skin isn’t drenched in the oil. Use nightly and skin appears plumper and healthy. £16, www.greenpeople.co.uk
A different way of turning back the clock now, with the new supplement Memory Lane, from Power Health. The supplement contains Phosphatidylserine, a naturally occurring nutrient found in the brain. Mental performance, recognition, concentration and attention span is improved in three weeks. £17.99, www.powerhealth.co.uk
Team Green Britain Bike Week
Team Green Britain Bike Week takes place from 19–27 June with towns, cities and villages across the UK taking part with a host of free cycling events all week long. Promoting the idea that two wheels are better than four, Bike Week lets you bid for a celeb-designed bike (Lord Alan Sugar’s being one of those up for grabs) or bring along an old bike to be reconditioned at a Team Green Britain Bike Week event. Never has getting fit been so fun!
To find your nearest event, visit www.bikeweek.org.uk and enter your postcode.?Find out more at www.teamgreenbritain.org
Photo: Bryan Fewkes
Family yurt camp opens
After three years of hold-ups, a Brighton family will finally open their Yurt camp on 29 June. The long-awaited Ecovallé Yurt Camp near Bergerac in France is a family-friendly site featuring 12.5 acres, with facilities including an 18-foot yurt sleeping up to four, a 12-foot yurt for use as a playroom, an outdoor kitchen/ dining area with gas BBQ, a compost toilet and use of the bathroom with flushing toilet and washer/dryer. Ecovellée is the realised dream of Kemp Town writer Alex Crowe, and his textile-artist partner, Clare. “What we offer is a very green holiday, on a self-sufficient-ish smallholding,” Alex says. And at just €350 a week for a family of four, it’s an affordable price tag for your summer getaway.
Ecovallée, www.ecovallee.com
Monday 24 May marks the start of National Vegetarian Week 2010. The annual celebration, sponsored by Cauldron and created by the National Vegetarian Society back in 1992, aims to promote and educate people about living a vegetarian lifestyle. Whether you’re a fully-fledged veggie, a newbie wanting to cut out meat, or a devoted vegan, use this week to think about the food you’re putting into you’re body and how it’s affecting your health and the world around you. 
Advertising campaigns ask us to consider how much alcohol we are consuming, but there is still confusion about units and glass sizes. How much is too much? “The recommended safe drinking levels are 21 units per week for men and 14 units for women,” says Doctor Bowskill of The Priory Hospital Brighton and Hove. “But obviously it’s not safe if these units are consumed in one binge. So another way of thinking about safe amounts is three to four units per day for men, or two to three units for women, with two or three days with no alcohol.” 
