I am a CHEK practitioner, which most of you reading would never of heard of!
It is difficult to define how we help people so I summarise it by saying we help people to help themselves to better health.
The creator of the CHEK institute where I trained has produced a short video explaining what we do, [...]
Medication for the masses – no thanks!
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According to a BBC report – http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7968734.stm, the government would like to offer 40-74 years to visit their GP surgeries for a check up, in order to prevent deaths from heart attacks and strokes.
On the surface this seems a sensible thing to propose, but when you realise that GPs are generally far too busy to [...]
I’m not getting to focus on any particular story in the news this week, as after reading the headlines, I felt quite depressed. As you can see from my writing on the blog, one of my favourite topics is food, and so reading about the latest food to be bad for us, or the new [...]
Vegetarian – Cancer link?
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A BBC report http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7942479.stm details a research study that apparently found links between eating red meat and increased cancer. However it also reported that those people on a vegetarian diet, had no less risk of colo rectal cancer (previously linked with eating too much red meat).
This seems rather confusing, until you realise that, the study does not [...]
can lie-ins for teenagers help their learning?
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A report from the BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tyne/7932108.stm , suggests that ‘teenagers are biologically predisposed to go to bed later and wake later’, and that they are underperforming at school as a result. The proposal is to start the school day later, and put challenging classes later in the day, when teenagers perform better.
Whilst I applaud some of [...]