Fitness Is Important Regardless Of Your Day Job
Arguments over health continue to center on paying for disease services.There would be less to argue about if people were healthier.One of the pillars of health is exercise. A politician who exercises is actually setting a good example.
Weight Loss Does Not Come From A Pill – It Comes From You.
The European Medicines Agency has suspended the license of a weight loss drug.This is not a great loss as it does not do that much. The way to a healthier weight is through changed eating patterns and a different mindset.
Immunization Debates Generate More Heat Than Light – We Need Facts On Vaccinations
Immunization generates much passion for and against.What really matters is whether they make a difference.Those that do are worth continuing.Those that do not are not worth continuing. Vaccines need to be assessed in the same way as any other pharmaceutical.
Parenting Is About Using Judgement Not Protocols
Parenting requires the use of judgment and the need to respond to situations which can be subtly different to other situations.It can not be done by committee or by strict adherence to protocols so beloved by government departments.
Health Reform Is Not More Services – It Is About People Being Healthy
Health reform is hot news in Australia as well as the USA. All the arguments miss or avoid the main point in the search for ways to fund more services.The solution is to reduce demand for services by focusing on people being healthy.
Fitness of Nations – How Is Government Money Best Spent?
For nations to become healthier is it a good investment to “buy”gold medals for a few or invest in sports participation for many?
Weight Watchers and McDonalds – An Unusual Pairing in Weight Loss
Three meals at McDonalds have the backing of weight watchers.This is an unusual pairing.Can fast food really help those wanting to watch their weight?
Pills Are Not The Answer to Better Health
An Australian study has criticized doctors for not prescribing enough pills to treat risk factors for disease.Yet it makes no recommendations about doctors advising their patients about things they can do to be healthy without drugs.
ADHD – Overdiagnosed and Over Medicated
ADHD has been over diagnosed and children in particular have been over medicated.New research shows that the drugs not only do not help.they make school performance worse.There are better ways to help our children.
Swine Flu – The Threat That Never Was and Six Ways To Boost Immunity
Swine flu or H1N1 continues to be a non event except in the minds of health authorities who will not accept that they got it wrong.There is a lot of unused vaccine on government shelves. Meanwhile there are simple things you can do to bolster your immune system and hence be less likely to get any viral illness.
Learning From Falling – Personal Responsibility Versus The Nanny State
As babies we learn to walk by the feedback our brain gets from falling.In life we learn from our literal and metaphorical falls.When governments think that they can protect us from falling they are not only wrong but do us a major dis-service.
ADHD Drugs – Children Do Worse at School When on ADHD Drugs
The basis of using drugs in children with ADHD has always been that it improves their school grades.For the first time a long term(nine year) study has shown that not only do the children not do better they do significantly worse.In addition there is an increase in blood pressure which does not go away when medication is stopped. There needs to be a complete reassessment of the use of these drugs .In simple terms they should almost never be used.