There is much focus on fats in our diet. Yet sugar intake,especially from liquid forms gets less attention. The “fat is bad” mantra has led to people eating far too much sugar. It also leaves us wondering why we are not losing weight when we are eating...
Last Sunday I decided to have a genuine slow day. I didn’t even check the emails although I will confess to posting a few tweets and looking at facebook. But to me that’s fun! It was a sunny day so for the first time in months one could sit outside and soak up some...
Fans of Dire Straits will remember the line in Industrial Disease which goes “Two men say they’re Jesus – one of them must be wrong”. With this in mind consider two headlines. The first from Australian Doctor magazine “Early Dementia Diagnosis of Benefit to...
It is amazing how the opposite of what we actually want happens when we focus on that which we do not want. If it had not been for the deaths of three American Diplomats and the appalling scenes on the streets of Sydney most of the world would never have heard of the...
One of my favourite parables is that of the Emperors New Clothes. Written in the 1800’s by Hans Christian Andersen, it has never been more apt than today. For those not familiar it involves a vain Emperor who likes to have a constant stream of new cloths to wear. Two...
