How to Look Fit and Fab in Your Favorite Swimsuit The girl in the well-known “Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini” suffers from a lack of bikini body confidence. In the song’s three verses, she hides herself and her sexy swimwear in a locker, a blanket, and...
Once upon a time medical practice was about the consulting room. Here the patient and doctor could consider what was best for the individual based on their unique circumstances. The aim was to treat the patient, not to treat a number, or to treat to a target or to...
How is it that with little warning, our body starts to hurt? We wake up during the night trying to get comfortable, and rise the next morning feeling tight, stiff and sore. We push through, organise school lunches, business meetings, attempt the gym, and pain becomes...
There was an interesting article in the paper a little while back discussing the behaviour of teenage girls. A headmaster of an all boy school was quoted as saying that their behavior was increasingly like bad boys. This lead the headmaster of a nearby all girl school...
For years, I’d struggled with my weight. I’d tried so many different ways to lose my unwanted and unappealing fat, but anything that succeeded was heartbreakingly temporary. Until one day, topping the scales at what I’ll call 90-ish kg, I bent over side ways and...
This week on the Paul Murray show on 6PR we spoke about the Australian class action against Bayer over the contraceptive pills Yasmin and Yaz. Legal cases have been conducted in the USA. It centre’s on the risks of side effects particularly the risks of blood clots...
There is nothing I like more than finding out that something that has been widely believed for decades is wrong. The cholesterol myth fits the pattern of so many items in my blog: it sounds good, it superficially makes sense, and there is a biologically plausible...
With two teenagers the issue of alcohol consumption is on the agenda. It is fair to say that attitudes vary considerably both amongst teenagers and also amongst their parents. There is also a game of cat and mouse whereby (quite correctly) attempts by schools to stop...
Here is a short meditation where you can breathe whilst enjoying a series of sunsets. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9wuvyChHxw&feature=youtube_gdata_player [/youtube]
The brain has two sides. The left side is our analytical thinking side and the right our creative and feeling side. Both are needed and neither is more important than the other. Current western thinking values the thinking whereas ancient societies valued the feeling....
