I got a good reminder yesterday – not everything is what it seems!
I saw some new hand-soap which called itself ‘organic’ with a very eco-friendly name. As I looked on the back label for a company website to see where to buy it, I noticed the ingredients – the second one listed was Sodium Lauryl Sulphate!
It was a real reminder that one has to read the labels and decide for oneself what is healthy. Too many companies have jumped on the eco-friendly band wagon…
I read an article in The Week magazine recently (28 August 2010) commenting on how young girls in America are reaching puberty earlier. It seems that 23% of African-American & 10% of white girls have started developing breasts by the age of seven! The article mentions that possible causes may be obesity (the breasts are…
How often do you find yourself muddling through your day feeling tired, drained or exhausted? If the answer is ‘often’, then it begs the question, are you taking your rest time seriously enough? With our busy bee lifestyles full of back to back commitments, you might think we’ve gone mad suggesting you had time for…
This one word could be sabotaging your best laid diet plans… We all want a body we love. What that body looks like, is your choice. I’m certainly not saying we can only love our body when we look a certain way. For I believe we are to love our bodies right now, no matter what….
Ever since I watched a documentary called ‘The Disappearing Male’ a few months ago whilst flying from Perth to London I’ve been meaning to write about this subject. I only saw this Canadian programme by accident – there was not enough time left of the flight to watch a full movie and the title caught…
Part 2 of BBC2 Horizon documentary – ‘Should I Eat Meat?’ was aired last week and although it was talking about what animals were fed and how they were raised, it was all in relation to ‘carbon footprint’. The question Michael Mosley was asking was ‘How environmentally friendly are the various options for raising different…
‘Addictions are always an attempt to escape from stress. The more stressed people are, the more addictively they are going to behave.’ Dr Gabor Maté. The world we live in today is so far removed from our original tribal setup and so demanding that we are currently experiencing stressors, such as raising children without a…