chronic fatigue part 1 of 2
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Why are our hearts suffering?
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Today, the BBC reported the news of the 500,000th heart pacemaker being fitted, and the advances in technology that have seen it go from the size of a pram wheel to smaller than a matchbox. The pacemaker is designed to resychronize heart muscle function generally after heart attacks, or if there is an arrhythmia (out [...]
Allergies on the rise
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A BBC report on 9 April 2009, cites the rise in worldwide allergies to the increase in ‘westernisation’ of lifestyle and diet http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7989873.stm. Indigenuous peoples and western cultures around the world are being studied, including India, where there is a growing middle class who have adopted a western lifestyle and diet, and it is in this group that [...]
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 [...]
Eating disorders – food is not the issue!
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In a BBC report on 22 February 2009 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7905223.stm , a study be the charity BEAT, found that only 15% of patients felt that their GP understood or knew how to help them.
Eating disorders like aneroxia are a subject close to my heart, as something that I wrestled with as a child and watched my ex-wife suffer [...]