Hi, I recently commented on environmental sustainability and referred to the pace of life in the ‘modern’ world.
I said that I’d let you know what is responsible for this pace of life. A pace of life that is often felt to be quickening and increasingly ’stressful’. A pace of life that brings to mind that old phrase: (more…)
UK drug advisor Dr Les King resigned following the chief drugs advisor to the UK government Prof David Nutt.
His reasoning was that he felt that Prof Nutt should be able to make a comment in public about policy on drugs, whilst also being a government advisor – even when his comments go against the policy decided by government. The sense from both Nutt and King is that this government [during the time of Blair/Brown as PMs] has cherry-picked (more…)
Firstly, just in terms of language – and I’d love to hear from anyone who is multi-lingual or from a non-UK culture to help on this – in the UK the phrase: ‘do you want to go for a drink?’, is generally interpreted as an alcoholic drink. If you invite someone to go for a coffee, you’d say: ’Would you like to go for a coffee?’
Consider the following headlines:
“Drinkers facing ‘a tsunami of harm’” – Daily Mail, Jul 23 ‘08
“Police demand action after pubs ditch drinking code” – The Guardian, Jul 28 ‘08
Curiously drinking is a basic action to intake fluids into the body. It is not specific to fluid type. Yet if you look at (more…)
Yes, an addendum, albeit from a Mar’08 article referred to on Scoop World [not the BBC for once!]:
Whilst crimes involving violence may have reduced over the evening and night time period, the evidence also points to increases in offences, including violent crimes, reported between 3am and 6am.
The ministerial statement from which this comes gives even more figures to add to those accessible from yesterday’s post.
Why the addendum? (more…)
Wow! Another little twist of patterns and counter-intuitive thought [or not in the case of the latter].
Another BBC snippet sparked my attention today, as did a similar newspaper article yesterday though I was busy writing on other topics.
Britain and alcohol (more…)
Thanks for all the comments, and for the references.
This is a longer expansion of the comment made a moment ago [22-May-08] on: What it really means to be healthy
Peter’s note on the improved final amendments of the NICE wording makes sense. The final wording removes the goal definition from an intervention that may be beneficial regardless of goal, it now reads:
Cognitive behavioural therapy and/or graded exercise therapy should be offered to people with mild or moderate CFS/ME and provided to those who choose these approaches, because currently these are the interventions for which there is the clearest research (more…)
Bear with me as I navigate this post…the inspiration was such a spur to issues and ideas I’ve found it hard to keep my mind from going off at a tangent.
In the Wellbeing section of The Guardian on Tues 6th May, there was an article Keith Kahn-Harris wrote an article about Chronic Fatigue Syndrome [CFS] and ME [myalgic encephalomyelitis]. It is an interesting re-appraisal of the condition and the concept of health given that, I’m guessing you may not be aware, (more…)