Taking responsibility for your own wellbeing
More people would enjoy the benefits of complementary therapies if they were available free on the NHS. One of the big advantages of our health service is that you can go to the doctor and receive treatment free of charge, but while you may be given a prescription for drugs or referred to a specialist, [...]
Now is the worst time of year for coughs and colds, flu and other nasties. You can try going to the doctor but there’s often little they can do, so why not try some natural remedies to ease the pain? They don’t work like magic but they can help to soothe symptoms. There is no [...]
Losing weight is never easy. First of all you have to be in the right state of mind and determined that you want to succeed, and secondly you have to identify what you should and should not be eating. Most health experts agree that eating healthy foods such as fruit, vegetables, wholegrains, pulses, fish, chicken [...]
Ten million people every year reach for an antibiotics prescription, and despite repeated warnings by the Chief Medical Officer some doctors still hand them out for colds, flu and sore throats, all viruses for which they are usually ineffective. Consequently, antibiotic resistance is growing with superbugs rife in hospitals and some serious illnesses not responding [...]
Every year about half a million people start to feel depressed as winter sets in because they suffer from Seasonal Affective Disorder or SAD as it is known. Here you can find out how light therapy and a change of diet can ease symptoms. Symptoms of SAD include: • Depression – low self-esteem, misery, [...]
Stress is the main reason for long-term sickness absence from work according to the 2011 survey by the CIPD (Chartered Institute of Personnel Development). Around 13.4 million working days a year are lost because of stress and stress-related illness. With the current financial crisis more and more people will become stressed as jobs go and [...]
After a funny summer like we’ve had this year, you wonder if we will have stocked up on our Vitamin D levels. Exposure to the sun is the main source (90 per cent) of Vitamin D, and health experts are concerned that some people are so obsessed by not getting skin cancer that they don’t [...]
Your baby’s been crying all day, is obviously unwell, but when you go to the GP, you are told that you can’t have antibiotics and should, ‘Go home and give her a few doses of Calpol’. Recent research has indicated that too much Calpol can lead to asthma, and dodtors are now discouraged from handing [...]
Mobile phones may be the most popular item in a man’s life, but they could prevent him from having children. The problem is that too many men wear their phones in their jeans pocket, right by their sexual organs and research has shown that this is having an adverse effect on sperm. Women may also be [...]
If homocysteine levels are too high it can make us more prone to heart disease, strokes and Alzheimer’s disease. Research indicates that high levels of a substance in the blood called homocysteine are linked to strokes, heart disease and Alzheimer’s and many others including birth defects and complications in pregnancy. • Every year there are [...]
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