At The QHotels Collection Health Club, we believe that fuelling your body correctly is essential to your fitness performance – as well as your overall everyday health and wellbeing. And there’s no greater foodie and fitness benefit than starting the day the ‘right way’ with a cracking good breakfast!

Valentine’s Day is almost upon us, so we felt at QHotels it was time we looked at the real reasons why regular exercise and a healthy diet will help you to love your body.

Happy New Year from all the team at The QHotels Collection Health Club. We hope your Christmas and festive celebrations were enjoyed by all, and you are looking forward to getting back to full fitness and health following the excesses.

With its evocative perfume and distinctive, aromatic flavour, there is nothing which sums up Christmas more than cinnamon. However, you may be interested to learn that cinnamon offers a whole array of impressive health and wellbeing benefits, which makes it so much more than just a festive spice.

Healthy and comfort food are not words you would normally associate with going together, particularly at this time of year. However, you will be pleased to hear that healthy comfort food really does exist, you just need a little inside information into what’s good and what’s not! And it’s important to remember that it’s also a case of how you cook rather than what you cook, too.

With low salt and sugar free diets being endorsed by celebrities and the NHS (which has declared sugar in particular is “Worse for health than smoking”), perhaps it is time we all stood up, took notice and changed our salty and sugary ways?