I have been meditating, on and off, for years…. I am convinced that it is a really good thing to do. Reams of research suggest that regular meditation reduces the risk of stroke, heart attack and more or less every other degenerative condition, while my common sense suggests that 20 minutes twice a day of …
Alternative/complementary therapies
Wiki 4 CAM
Last month I blogged about the apparent bias of Wikipedia against complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). For those who are interested in the area, CAM supporters have now hit back with a Wiki of their own – Wiki 4 CAM. Wiki4CAM, they say, has been started to provide the Complementary and Alternative Medicine community its …
Medical self help
Some weeks ago John Scott directed me to two sites about which he was seriously excited – two facets of what he called ‘a new type of site for ‘crowd-source health solutions‘ – leveraging the experience of others to make more informed health decisions for oneself. LOVE it! More power to the patient!’ I have only …
The brighter side…
Foods Matter has been off air for the last few days doing all that technical work that websites always do on bank holiday weekends – including both tidying up our forums and adding to our cartoon collection! Regular site visitors will know Christopher White’s lovely whimsical cartoons – new comers have a treat in store. …
The alternative, but not always popular, approach…
John Scott, regular contributor to Foods Matter and ‘worm’ enthusiast, has just alerted me to two interesting efforts to rubbish or generally sideline alternative approaches to health and illness. One can only assume that they are made by conventional medicine practitioners/supporters who find alternative approaches unacceptable or, dare one suggest, fear that they may not …
Weird disorders – or are they?
A recent article in the New York Times described the rare, but worrying ‘sleep eating disorder’ – when you not only sleep walk but sleep eat, raiding the fridge or freezer for anything it contains. And you can do it up to five times in a night! Like sleep walking, sleep eating is not thought …