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Posted by on Wed, 23 Jan 13 13:40
Secrets to Keeping Your New Year’s Resolution
Still keeping your resolve for your New Year’s resolutions, or is your will power starting to wane? Here are some tips that will help you stick to them, long after the first few weeks of January.
Posted by on Sat, 29 Sep 12 07:39
Drugs may double dementia risk
Benzodiazepine sleeping and anti-anxiety pills such as temazapam and diazepam may double dementia risk, according to research published in the British Medical Journal. But they are not the only drugs to be concerned about. Antacid proton-pump inhibitors (PPIs), statins and the diabetes drug metformin, have the potential to accelerate memory loss.
Posted by on Sat, 16 Jun 12 06:35
Sugar makes you fat, sad and stupid
The three part BBC series ‘the men who made us fat’ explains that it is sugar primarily (and high fructose corn syrup in particular) not fat that’s caused the obesity epidemic. It also makes you stupid, worsening memory and mood, according to research out today.
Posted by on Thu, 17 May 12 06:50
Do coffee drinkers die young or live long?
Every day Britons drink 70 million cups of coffee – roughly two each per adult. Is it good or bad for you? Increase or decrease diabetes risk? Do coffee drinkers die young or live long? A new study reports..
Posted by on Thu, 27 Jan 11 17:33
Sleeping pill prescriptions all-time high
HSE figures show a big increase in sleeping pill prescriptions, just behind cholesterol lowering and diabetes drugs. But there are safer and better natural alternatives.
Posted by on Thu, 15 Oct 09 05:43
How to cut the stress of addiction
Many people prone to addiction have ‘reward deficiency syndrome’ making them more prone to stress. Recent research shows how amino acids cut stress and and may improve your chances of quitting.
Posted by on Tue, 08 Sep 09 06:17
The dangers of painkillers
The average person takes 373 painkillers a year. Over 2,000 people in Britain die as a result and at least 30,000 people are addicted. Last week the drug company Pfizer were fined a record 2.3 billion dollars and pleaded guilty to one felony count to settle federal criminal and civil charges that it illegally promoted its Bextra painkiller and other drugs. Each of the three kinds of painkillers - paracetamol, codeine, and NSAIDS (anti-inflammatories including aspirin and ibuprofen) have their downsides and need to be taken with extreme caution, or ideally not at all, using natural painkillers instead.
Posted by on Fri, 06 Mar 09 09:28
The silent addiction - over the counter pain killers
Today’s Daily Mail published an article on the UK’s over the counter pill addicts - a problem that the General Medical Association acknowledged in 2004 suggesting there might be as many as 50,000 painkiller abusers. Last year I wrote a book called How to Quit Without Feeling S**t that takes a new approach to overcoming addictions to not only over the counter painkillers but all drugs including nicotene and other more harmless seeming addictions such as to coffee and sugar. Chris, who is mentioned in the Daily Mail article, followed the recommendations in How to Quit and now, after nearly 20 years of an addiction to codeine she is free of her addiction.
