How To Create A Success Model
Creating a success model for positive lifestyle change involves several important components:
The Subtle Ways Of Marketing Drugs
It is way too easy to dress up marketing as being about your health. Patients, doctors and chemists need to get a bit savvier about the marketing of drugs.
Six Non Drug Tips For Managing And Avoiding Depression
Once again a large question mark has been thrown over antidepressants. A major analysis of previous studies shows that the effect of Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRI’s) is no more than placebo (a non active sugar tablet) in mild and moderate depression....
Three Tips For A Glowing Summer Skin
Christmas decorations are already out in full force. This is always a good indicator that we are moving into a new season.A change in seasons also means that many people will switch to a different skin care regime.
With Prostate Cancer There Is No Simple Blood Test
The US Preventative Task Force has publicly said that prostate screening (with PSA blood testing) has no benefit. Whilst there is considerable appeal in the notion of getting a simple blood test to know if you have cancer, this is not the reality.
Food Influences Our Mood
We all know that putting the wrong sort of fuel into the car will mean that it does not run well and may not even run at all. Whilst the body is in some respects “more forgiving” the fuels we feed ourselves will affect how well we function The connection between what...
Patient Support Groups, Pills, And Ethics
We all like to see worthwhile charities get funding so they can do their work and assist those who need help. However there is an old adage that he who pays the piper calls the tune. These are, in my opinion, serious ethical dilemmas.
Quitting Made Easy
Quitting smoking is easier than you may think
Life Is Complicated
Life is complicated. True, but does it have to be? How much of life’s complexity do we create for ourselves? A lot. How complicated have we made health?
Values, Parenting And Behaviour
We need to reinstate basic simple values and be prepared to say when something or someone is wrong. We also need a reinstatement of people being held accountable for the actions they take.
Three Simple Ways To Enhance Fertility
Advances in assisted fertility over the last 30 years have taken us from science fiction to “test tube babies”. Whilst In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) gets the most media attention there are many other forms of assisted fertility. Yet there are two things I have noticed....
Will The Real Hamburger Please Stand Up?
Is Michelle Obama really more like the Hamburgler in disguise? Or is she simply an American woman who, according to a Washington Post reporter, had a craving for, and subsequently ordered some of her favorite comfort foods.Should we even care?