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On Christmas day last year I blogged not about health, as such, but about random acts of kindness. I had a few days earlier witness a random act of kindness in an underground station. I was so touched by the experience, that I resolved making at least one random act of kindness my New Year […]
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I came across this report here of a study recently published in the British Medical Journal [1]. It concerns a device known as a ‘Mandometer’ ” which has been developed as an aid to weight loss. The Mandometer, a Swedish invention, is essentially a set of weighing scales connected to a small computer. A plate […]
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This blog is primarily about health. Pretty much everything I write in it is designed to help individuals make more informed choices about how to improve the quality and quantity of their lives (should they so wish). However, I recognise that not all of live is about health. And so today’s post is a bit […]
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Regular readers will know that I have a particular interest in the role of sunlight in health, in large part due to its ability to stimulate vitamin D production in the body. Vitamin D, in turn, has been found to be association with a very wide variety of disease processes including cancer, diabetes, and multiple […]
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Mobile phones are undeniably convenient, but that fat that they emit electromagnetic radiation means that they have at least some potential to affect individuals who use them. For a long time, the party line was that mobile phones are safe. This is a message the industry has been particularly keen to cultivate. However, at least […]
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Last Wednesday I wrote about ‘mindful eating’, and mentioned I was in the process of reducing my own weight. Actually, I don’t really care about my weight, it’s fat I’m attempting to lose. My aim is to improve my body composition, and to this end weight is relatively irrelevant. However, I confess that I have […]
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Last week one of my blogs focused on a recent study which explored the relationship between vitamin D levels and risk of cardiovascular disease. This issue is timely for those of us who are in our winters, and who may therefore be running short on sunlight and vitamin D. This issue is perhaps even more […]
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Asthma is a condition characterised by constriction in the airways of the lungs. Inflammation in the airways is another common feature, and this may also be accompanied by the presence of some mucus that can obviously add to the obstruction of airflow in and out of the lungs. Common symptoms of active asthma include shortness […]
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Cholesterol-reducing drugs known as statins are hugely popular and highly profitable. It’s a shame, then, that they aren’t very effective. I say this because while they have been shown to reduce the risk of cardiovascular events such as heart attacks, they do not reduce the overall risk of death when essentially healthy individuals are being […]
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Variously on this site I have written about evidence which suggests that the standard measure of weight ” the body mass index (BMI) ” is not really fit for purpose. The main issue with it that while it tells us about someone’s weight in comparison to their height, it tells us nothing about the body’s […]