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Antidepressants Can Cause Insomnia & Weight Gain

30th Jun 2015

It takes a lot of courage to admit that you're suffering anxiety or depression and don’t know how to sort yourself out. You probably struggle on for a while, but eventually end up at the doctor's and leave with antidepressant medication. An antidepressant allows better absorption by the brain of the feel-good hormone serotonin [...] 

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What Goes Around Comes Around

23rd Jun 2015

Joe is always angry, with everything, with life, and with his partner Evie. Although he’s very amusing company and his volatile emotions enhance his stories and jokes, he’s big-time angry, deep-down. It shows on his face, in his words and in his behaviour. Clearly he feels that life is unfair to him [...]

Those Awful Side Effects

Those Awful Side Effects

13th Jun 2015

Thousands of people refuse statins for cholesterol-lowering, even though these people are high risk for heart attack and stroke, said a journal recently. The reasons? The side effects! which include severe muscular pain, Diabetes 2, headaches, indigestion [...]  

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Take More Responsibility For Your Health

29th May 2015

Dee has multiple sclerosis. Her specialist told her not to spend time in the sun, as it's bad for MS. Then the specialist went on holiday. The replacement specialist told Dee to spend lots of time in the sun because it's good for MS. Who was Dee going to believe? [...] 

Fruit and Vegetables

Fruit & Vegetables In Season

19th Jan 2015

It's worth re-thinking those discounted packets of died-last-week herbs and brown-tinged, wilting salads, plus poly-wrapped veg. We may be grateful for ready-wrapped stuff when in a hurry, but after a couple of weeks of indulging in it [...]

Feeling Less Hopeless

Feeling Less Hopeless & Helpless

1st Nov 2014

When people used to visit their doctor years ago, they were almost bundled out of the room, with the prescription written before they had time to finish what they were saying. Later, when doctors started using computers, there was little eye contact [...]