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19
MAR
2012

Invincible summer

It was a pleasure to work with James Freemantle a couple of years ago on his documentary “Invincible Summer”. He shares his personal story about depression, consulting a few “experts” along the way.  
02
MAR
2012

Cholesterol and the statin controversy

Statins, the drugs designed to lower cholesterol, are in the news again. The US regulatory body the FDA released a warning this week, cautioning users of an increased risk of developing dementia or diabetes. Australia’s counterpart, the TGA, is yet to make a ruling. Cholesterol...
16
NOV
2011

The inconvenient truth about MSG

Last week a staff writer for the Sydney Morning Herald proclaimed the “truth” about reactions to monosodium glutamate (MSG) to be a furphy. While it’s a fact that the World Health Organisation doesn’t consider the flavour enhancer a health hazard, many of the other conclusions...
27
SEP
2011

Slow medicine: the problem with technology

“We were always taught that 90 percent of the diagnosis in medicine was based on what the patient tells you,” said Kenneth Polonsky, dean of the Division of the Biological Sciences and the Pritzker School of Medicine. “There are tendencies on the part of physicians to rely more...
07
SEP
2011

Optimum wellbeing in spring

Spring is the season for lifting your spirit, a positive outlook, renewal and growth. After a long, cool winter, the return of sunny days can gladden the heart. Just as the sap rises in plants, it’s not unusual to experience an uprising of emotions with the coming of spring. Some...
08
AUG
2011

Are our homes killing us?

To find out the answer to that question, I reviewed two books on environmental health. Healthy Home Healthy Family: Is Where You Live Affecting Your Health? Nicole Bijlsma (Joshua Books, 2010) Slow Death by Rubber Duck: How the Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Life Affects Our Health...
08
AUG
2011

Love your enemy

High on a windswept Wellington hilltop the view from Tarakena Bay is magnificent. But it wasn’t the reason I was there. We’d scaled the steep, twisting path with hundreds of steps to visit a war memorial with a difference. While the site commemorates one of the country’s...
06
AUG
2011

Why I’m learning more about mindfulness

Note: I signed up for Charlotte’s course even before I watched her video. What a bonus to learn that chocolate can be therapeutic tool!
08
JUL
2011

On being ill

The hospital experience is full of the drama of the untidy body: of blood, sweat, vomit, bile, all the other stuff normally contained and hidden. But in hospital, the normally compliant body does not, will not and cannot maintain its normal boundaries or habits, so any chart or...
04
JUL
2011

Can you eat earwax?

Waxing lyrical on earwax, candles and other aural obsessions Is it just me or are all humans just a bit obsessed with earwax?   What is earwax? Cerumen (the medical name for earwax) is made from secretions of the sebaceous and ceruminous glands in the ear. It’s acts as a...
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