Health

Evan on December 12th, 2008

Image by Finsec If you’ve been to see your doctor any time in the last ten or twenty years, you may have noticed one question popping up more often, no matter what ailment sent you to their office: “Are you under any stress?” What you may not realize is that this isn’t just your doctor [...]

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Image by basykes Nikolas Christakis (a professor at Harvard Medical School) and James Fowler (from the University of California, San Diego) have found that friends affect both our weight and our happiness. 1. Weight In a study published in the July 26 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine Christakis and Fowler report that [...]

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Evan on October 7th, 2008

Image by woodleywonderworks Today I’m delighted to present a guest post by Isabella Mori.  Isabella is a counsellor in Vancouver, Canada, where she has a psychotherapy practice.  Isabella hasbeen working in the field of mental health, counselling, psychotherapy and movement therapy for 15 years and enjoy helping people build better lives.  You can find out [...]

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Evan on August 27th, 2008

It seems that a day barely passes without the promise of genetic medicine being promoted. All this promotion has the effect of making me sceptical. I wondered if I was just being cynical. Then I realised I had a friend who I could ask. My friend is David Wyatt who started one of the early [...]

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Evan on August 17th, 2008

Just a quick note. Below is a link to a panel on the social determinants of health. It’s about 50 minutes – audio only so it shouldn’t take too much bandwidth. The drawback is that the panel contains a couple of politicians. However, it also contains the brilliant Michael Marmot (who in my opinion has [...]

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Evan on June 30th, 2008

Image by honey-bee This is a guest post by Maria Gajewski whose blog I recommend. I read a post about her new book on her blog and thought it was perfect for this blog. So I emailed Maria and she kindly consented to do a guest post for me. I hope you like it – [...]

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Evan on June 19th, 2008

There is a quite comprehensive site on hypnosis and health you may be interested in.  It is run by Ralph H Price and deals with how hypnosis can help with a huge range of issues: both the physical (smoking, weight loss, fitness) and psychological (anxiety, self esteem) and lots more. I am not a hypnotherapist [...]

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Image by Alex Osterwalder I’m starting an email newsletter focused on our personality and our relationships. It starts with twelve email course covering all aspect of our health (physical, emotional, mental, spiritual and social) delivered in six weeks and then continues with one newsletter a week about personality and relationships. The focus of the newsletter [...]

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