There’s more to good health than just diet and exercise. Those two things are very, very important—and we’ve spoken about them quite often on this podcast. Being physically active has a huge number of health benefits. But we also know that there are people who are...
The relentless march of the nanny state into the minutiae of people’s lives continues unabated. A quote: WA will ban ham and cheese sandwiches from school to hand teens with the lunch meal classed as red under new dietary rules. This is on a traffic light system...
It is amazing how often the obvious comes as a revelation to the academics that inhabit the world of research and public health. A new study out of Massachusetts’s general hospital shows that children who do not get enough sleep have more cognitive (thinking) and...
It is the quintessential motherhood statement to say that it is good for babies to be breast-fed. It is not the purpose of this blog to list the benefits or why we should encourage mothers to breast-feed. We all know this. Plus, virtually all women want to breast-feed...
It is fascinating to see how the world turns. A lament of many over the last decade or so has been that teenagers and children do not get outside to play and spend too much time on screens. This was initially TV and video games and more recently phones. So it is great...
