General Health
Image by zappowbang Throughout the world there are groups of people who are known to live to quite advanced ages. What’s more these people tend to live to a healthy old age. There is now a project to study these different groups and what they have in common. The zones of healthy old people are [...]
Would you like to be less stressed? Would you like to experience more joy? The key to both is living authentically. The cure for stress The cure for stress is to know ourselves and do what we love. In other words to live with authenticity. So, what causes the stress? Stress is when what we [...]
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Image by zappowbang At the moment I am working in a nursing home. Someone being in a nursing home usually means that they are unable to care for themselves. They are not representative of the general population of old people, but are towards the less able end of the spectrum. I have found this less [...]
I have a guest post on the Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life blog. It is exploring how much pleasure is the ruling value of life. And if it’s not does suffering have a positive value? I think these are difficult but very important questions. It was a difficult post to write but I hope it [...]
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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I have a guest post on Ching Ya’s blog It’s My Life – It’s Now or Never. It is about having A Healthy Christmas – healthy for body, soul and spirit. And please check out Ching Ya’s blog while you are there. Evan If you loved this post please share it! Hide Sites
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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[Apologies for the lack of graphics. I am on dial up and so can't access them. It looks like I'll be on dial up for another two weeks. Sigh. Evan] A few years ago John Harrison wrote a book called, “Love Your Disease: It’s Keeping You Healthy”. The author tells the story of a young [...]
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 [...]
