Living Skillfully: Your Mind and Health

Two interesting articles on BBC Health recently.
The first talks about a University of Toronto study which claims that one death in 25 is linked to alcohol consumption – one in 10 in Europe and one in seven in the former Soviet Union. The researchers say, “Globally, the effect of alcohol on burden of disease is [...]

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My British colleagues Adam Eason and Sophie Nicholls have both featured this story from the Independent on their blogs this week: Less is More: How to cut down on drink.
photo credit: Bohman
I always enjoy reading spontaneous testimonies from ordinary people who have been helped by hypnotherapy. This one is fairly typical. “I didn’t ‘go [...]

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New Zealand has a new government in place, one with, I hope, quite a different philosophy of social change to the previous one. I don’t think my health blog is necessarily the place to talk politics, but I do want to talk about different approaches to changing behaviour, sparked off by a blog post on [...]

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I received an email response to my post on the possible health benefits of alcohol from a lady in Canada who had experienced severe negative health effects from alcohol – notably seizures. Her late husband had been similarly afflicted and had in fact died as a result.
I asked her about their alcohol consumption, and she [...]

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If health was the sole consideration being used to make alcohol policy, the drinking age would be set at 35.
Startling, but true. Most of the harm done by alcohol is done to young people, while no health benefits have ever been identified to people under the age of 35.
What this means is that when [...]

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