A couple of weeks ago it was reported that a study had found that pregnant women often feel stressed and judged. There was pressure to conform to some “ideal” behaviour in pregnancy and that any deviation from this made you a “bad mother (to be)”. In the 1950’s a...
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....
Regular readers will know I am a firm believer in individual responsibility. I am passionate about people being healthy but if they do not want to be that is their choice and it is not my role to force on them that which they do not want. There are of course those who...
When messages get confusing, people switch off. This has been demonstrated in dietary advice, where it has been shown that the more complicated the diet; the less likely people are to follow it. It has now been shown that official government guidelines on drinking...
