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...
One of the reasons that public health messages struggle to get through is that they are presented as very black and white, a bit like in George Orwell’s Animal Farm -“four legs good – two legs bad”. Yet with virtually all matters of health it is not that simple....
It is amazing how the opposite of what we actually want happens when we focus on that which we do not want. If it had not been for the deaths of three American Diplomats and the appalling scenes on the streets of Sydney most of the world would never have heard of the...
Regular readers will know I am not a fan of hysteria in health stories. In the last couple of weeks we have had two. The WA State Government is running an advertising campaign on the dangers of alcohol. Nothing new there you might think. This campaign focuses on the...
People who know me will know that I enjoy a good glass of wine and that my modest cellar is my pride and joy. I have also written previously about the health benefits of modest wine consumption and how giving a bottle as a gift is hardly the end of the world. That...
