It really captured the media when a palliative nurse in Australia revealed the most common regrets of people dying and put them into a book entitled The Top Five Regrets of the Dying. They were: 1. I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of [...]
Cut the drugs bill with complementary therapies
November 5, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Wouldn’t the government love to cut the £8.2 billion spent every year on drugs? Wouldn’t it be great if doctors offered you some alternatives - acupuncture for the pains in your joints (instead of drugs), reflexology for your problems with conceiving (instead of fertility drugs), or chiropractic for your bad back (instead of anti-inflammatories), or hypnotherapy for [...]
Is technology affecting our health?
June 2, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Prevent Alzheimer’s – don’t be a statistic
May 29, 2011 By Leave a Comment
It is estimated that one million people will have Alzheimer’s by 2025 and the race is on all the time to find an appropriate drug, but there is plenty that people can do themselves. The stock answer to all health problems seems drugs, drugs, drugs, but it actually ought to be nutrition. A report issued [...]
Are young people overdosing on fizzy drinks?
April 18, 2011 By Leave a Comment
One of the problems with our health service is that doctors and nurses have far too much to do. Therefore they can’t very often look at the big picture or the ‘whole’ person. For instance, there’s been a story in the news that many people are diagnosed with blood pressure tablets when they have become stressed going to see [...]
Why buy organic?
November 3, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Many people believe that all food should be organic as it always was before pesticides, fungicides and insecticides laced with toxic chemicals were introduced into intensive farming. Instead of which it has often been seen as ‘elitist, expensive’ and its detractors consider it ‘unnecessary’. Other claims are that it’s a massive con. Personally I don’t [...]
Is depression well treated?
May 22, 2010 By Leave a Comment
The Government commissioned a report into depression a few years ago. The conclusion was overwhelming – that people were more likely to get much better if they had therapy than if they took antidepressants. Consequently it was suggested that people with mild to moderate depression were given CBT – cognitive behaviour therapy – which is [...]
Good nutrition = healthy ageing
January 30, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Why we don’t want GM
June 22, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Most of the British public are really adamant that they don’t want genetically modified food products. So much so that when GM products first came into the UK there was such an outcry by the public that all the supermarkets ensured that they didn’t sell anything under their own label that had GM ingredients. Apparently [...]
The sunshine dilemma
June 21, 2009 By Leave a Comment
For years we have been told that too much sunshine is dangerous and it is, but the sun is also vital to healthy living. Vitamin D is produced in the body when it is exposed to sunlight, and recent research has shown that many Britons are deficient in the vitamin and some chronically. Our Vitamin [...]
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