Archive for October, 2007
Do You Hate Daylight Saving?
I sure do. (Daylight saving is setting the clocks back an hour to give extra sunlight at the end of the day.) It messes with my bodyclock and interferes with my usual routines - especially the heat being later interfering with when I eat my evening meal. When its hotter later, then I eat later. […]
America’s Medical System
This is a link to a broadcast on the American medical system.
It is an interview with an American doctor, Dr David Kerns.
He advocates universal coverage provided by the government. Radical for America and well worth thinking about for the rest of us who are apparently fixated with copying the American system (like Australia, where […]Evidence Based Medicine
There is a very funny article about the limitations of Evidence Based Medicine in that radical periodical the British Medical Journal. It is an examination of the evidence for the use of parachutes.One of the many highlights:
The parachute and the healthy cohort effect
One of the major weaknesses of observational data is
the possibility of bias, […]Evidence Based Medicine: Yes and No
Over the last decade of so there has been something of a propaganda war waged on behalf of “Evidence Based Medicine”.
I am generally in favour of this: there is far too much time and money wasted. I am in favour of getting people as healthy as possible as quickly as possible.
So Evidence Based […]Small class sizes for health
What would be the best thing we could do for our health?
What could a government do to improve the health of the people in a country? Campaign against smoking or drinking? Encourage healthy eating and exercise? Research: basic or applied? You may be surprised by the answer.
But first an explanation of how these things are […]Engagement: Eight Stages of Experience #6
This stage is about being fully engaged with what we are doing.
Seeing what the qualities of our focus of interest are, how it works - studying each part and seeing how they relate to each other and the whole. This process also means finding out how what we are engaged with fits with us.
This […]Healthy Eating is About Participation
In a study by Dr. Moya Kneafsey from Coventry University called Re-connecting consumers, food and producers: exploring ‘alternative’ networks, it was found that
“Through participation, consumers tended to increase their consumption of fruit and vegetables, and improve their cooking skills and knowledge about food. “
The study was of ‘alternative food networks’. Which means things as varied […]
