It’s The Sugar, Stupid
I have contended that the push for low fat diets over the last 30 years has coincided with a rise in obesity and diabetes.
Fat Chance Of Understanding The Healthy Food Message
Prices nay be down but obesity rates are up.
Health Reform More Than Arguing About Disease Payment
Real healthcare reform is about helping and supporting people in being healthy. It is not arguing about who pays for disease.
3 Tips For Simplifying Nutrition
The Australian Government has released guidelines on what we should eat. The document runs to nearly 200 pages. Last year the US government did something similar. Why does what we eat have to be so complex? It does not. A lion in the jungle doesn’t need a book to tell...
Choices and Consequences
We all make choices. We can choose to make different ones if we get new knowledge. The choices remain ours, as do the consequences for better or worse.
Creating A Healthy Mindset
Do you feel you could use a healthier attitude toward life? Would you like to approach things in a different way? Is a healthier lifestyle attainable?
Doing Whatever It Takes Comes Unstuck
A culture that richly rewards wining no matter how you do it with everyone turning a blind eye is the problem.
The Disorder Disorder
The growth of new disorders and the growth industry of medication of the masses based on suspect motives and justifications is the elephant in the room very few speak about.
Nothing Like A Good Crisis To Boost Funding
There is a particular narrative to public health messages and almost a certain morality, which runs through them. We need to be wary of experts talking up a crisis and offering to fix it.
3 Tips For Back Care
The lower back is the commonest area of the body for people to experience pain. Whilst for most it is transient some people will experience ongoing lower back pain and this can reduce enjoyment of life and impact on the capacity to work. Treatments include...
Don’t Blame Stress
Contrary to what we may think, the amount of stress that we experience isn’t what determines whether we develop chronic health problems.
It’s all about how we react to things.
Not Funny!
There is an old adage about laughter being the best medicine. Indeed there are a number of positive effects on the body from laughing. Yet this is under threat.