We all want to know the secrets to achieving optimum health. Yet, with no shortage of health documentaries, cookbooks and expert advice out there, most of us are still left searching for the answers. We know the importance of a healthy diet, exercise and enough sleep to maintain a healthy balance in our lives, but it is one thing to be told, and another to be shown as you live through the experience yourself.
When the opportunity for a five-day Yeotox first came into my inbox I hesitated. Memories of punishing bootcamps with heavy detoxing on Bentonite clay and numerous pills while being cooped up with a group of strangers suffering from caffeine headache withdrawal, almost had me hitting the delete button quicker than a round of fastest-finger first.
Then I remembered a friend had told me about a beautiful North Devon wellness retreat – one she recommended highly – describing it as both enjoyable and luxurious, a world apart from the juice-fasting calorie-counting fat farms – and yes this was the same one, this was Yeotown.
Although offering some people the kick-start they need, extreme bootcamps are in my view similar to yo-yo dieting. Guests might shed the pounds and see some health improvements during and shortly after their stay, but so often they do not help people to address the underlying problems which need to be considered in order to maintain positive
