Nails – if you have got brittle, weak or cracked nails avoid damaging them any further by wearing protective gloves when you wash up.

Brittle hands and nails can be turned soft and smooth with a little milk. Soaking your hands in milk helps smoothen and hydrate your skin and nails. Milk helps skin retain moisture and the high contents of calcium helps strengthen fragile nails.

Smoking is your skin’s worst enemy. Nicotine slows blood flow and starves the skin from oxygen, result premature wrinkling and a greyish tone.

Always keep skin clean and moisturised, use morning creams with vitamins.

Eat a balanced diet and drink at least eight glasses of water a day.

The most important of all is getting enough sleep.

Try and eat loads of fruit and vegetables as they contain vitamins A, C and E which are particularly skin friendly. Increasing fruit and vegetable by six or seven servings a day and at the same time cut down white, refined, and sugary foods and replace with wholemeal products.

Did you know? An apple a day keeps the lung specialist away. According to a research conducted at St George’s Hospital Medical School, people who ate five or more apples a week appear to have better lung function than those who don’t.

Want to be slim for the summer, well lovely scientists at University College London have discovered that scoffing some chocolate straight after a meal does wonders. Research showed that chocolate lovers who ate half a bar after lunch and dinner lost their cravings in two weeks and chocolate haters who indulged on an empty stomach started craving the stuff.

For craggy feet, warm a little olive oil and pour into a large bowl of water and soak feet for 20 minutes.

Athletes feet- should dry feet thoroughly with a clean towel (especially between toes) change socks everyday, use talcum powder to dry feet and don’t borrow other people’s shoes.

Snoring has now been identified as having even more unpleasant ramifications than keeping your partner awake half the night. A swedish team has identified that pregnant women who snore are more likely than nonsnorers to have pregnancy related high blood pressure and are at risk of having a small baby.