A new website called Sideways Health looks at innovative and traditional ways to beat common health problems.

The emphasis is on non-invasive treatments which are both gentle and effective.

There will also be a strand concentrating on the GI method (Glycemic Index) as a way of improving alertness and mental functioning, as well as overall health and optimum weight.

This site is well worth following if you want a different approach to managing your health apart from the expensive, technological methods of conventional medicine and healthcare.

It’s a fact of life that skin starts to sag as we get older. The upper arms are no exception. If this is one of your sensitive spots, try this massage oil.

Exercise such as walking, running and swimming, can help tone and firm, and gentle upward massage will help banish cellulite by encouraging lymphatic drainage.

Massage oil for the upper arms
45ml (3 tbspn) jojoba oil
10ml (1 dspn) rose masqueta oil
1 capsule wheatgerm oil
1 capsule evening primrose oil
3 drops essential oil of either rose or jasmine
5 drops essential oil of lavender
4 drops essential oil of either bois de rose or lemon
100ml bottle

Mix together in the bottle. After a bath or shower, use the oil to massage the triceps muscle from the elbow upwards. This oil will keep for up to two months.

Adapted from “Secrets of Youth and Beauty” by Daniele Ryman.

When scientists declared that a $35 (£17) anti-aging face cream actually worked, the response was immense. Women stormed the UK High Street stores of popular chemist and retailer Boots, and emptied the shelves of the beauty treatment.

Now Boots is witnessing yet more hysteria after launching a cream that promises to work the same magic on the body. Boots No7 Protect & Perfect Body Serum is designed for use on a much wider area than the original wonder serum, No7 Protect & Perfect Beauty Serum.

The experts claim that the serum will work best on more exposed parts such as the neck and decolletage, including arms and legs.

Steve Barton, Boots’s skincare scientific adviser, who developed the product, says he “whooped with delight” when told about the tests on the face serum.

The cream made it onto BBC2’s flagship science show Horizon in March this year. Initially, the manufacturer was producing around 10,000 bottles a month and had maintained steady sales for three years. After the BBC showing, thousands of women swooped on Boots stores up and down the UK, some waiting outside from dawn to be sure of getting their hands on the serum.

Production at the Boots Nottingham factory doubled to more than 24,000 a day to keep up with demand. Since March 4.15million bottles have been sold — the equivalent to one every four seconds. Boots says it has sold the equivalent of 62 years worth of stock in six months.

If “youth is wasted on the young”, why shouldn’t older women get their share too?