Creating A Healthy Mindset
Do you feel you could use a healthier attitude toward life? Would you like to approach things in a different way? Is a healthier lifestyle attainable?
Doing Whatever It Takes Comes Unstuck
A culture that richly rewards wining no matter how you do it with everyone turning a blind eye is the problem.
The Disorder Disorder
The growth of new disorders and the growth industry of medication of the masses based on suspect motives and justifications is the elephant in the room very few speak about.
Nothing Like A Good Crisis To Boost Funding
There is a particular narrative to public health messages and almost a certain morality, which runs through them. We need to be wary of experts talking up a crisis and offering to fix it.
3 Tips For Back Care
The lower back is the commonest area of the body for people to experience pain. Whilst for most it is transient some people will experience ongoing lower back pain and this can reduce enjoyment of life and impact on the capacity to work. Treatments include...
Don’t Blame Stress
Contrary to what we may think, the amount of stress that we experience isn’t what determines whether we develop chronic health problems.
It’s all about how we react to things.
Not Funny!
There is an old adage about laughter being the best medicine. Indeed there are a number of positive effects on the body from laughing. Yet this is under threat.
12 Tips For A Stress Free Christmas
I have written an article for Australian news websites on how to reduce stress this Christmas. Some tips are a bit lateral and not all will apply to everyone.However amongst the 12 will be something that you will find helpful this festive season.
The Healthiest People In The World
Different countries have different life expectancies and different levels of wellbeing. If we can learn what they are doing right we can improve our own health and wellbeing. It is rarely rocket science. This info-graphic shows the habits of healthy people and nations.
How Dare You Be Healthy!
As the year draws to a close it is interesting how three of the key themes that I have written about this year have all raised their heads. And the three intersect.
Treating The Numbers Not The Patient
What’s your blood count? Blood pressure? Bone density? PSA? If it is abnormal, odds are that you will want it to be normal.Like much of what we do, treating the numbers is often naïve, and sometimes harmful, no matter how well intentioned
Time To Clear The Air On Big Pharma
Big pharma together with some universities, researchers and doctors have been allowed to get away with too much. They need to be held accountable, not let further off the hook!