by Christine Morgan | May 24, 2011 | General health, Mind/body, psychology
If you want better health and a lower risk of suffering from depression, get thee to an art gallery. Or a museum or theatre. Or paint, create or play an instrument yourself, say Norwegian researchers writing in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. You...
by Christine Morgan | Apr 28, 2011 | General health, Pregnancy & birth, psychology
The health news story that caught my eye today is about how being born in the spring may increase your risk for developing the eating disorder anorexia nervosa. According to a study published in the British Journal of Psychiatry, babies born during March to June are...
by Christine Morgan | Apr 21, 2011 | General health, psychology
What makes you quake in your boots? Could it be the thought of being trapped in a confined space? Or how would you like to hold a snake or a spider? There again, perhaps going to the dentist is what makes your heart pound and your palms perspire. Well according to the...
by Christine Morgan | Apr 14, 2011 | General health, Mind/body, psychology
There’s a fascinating story in today’s press about one of my favourite concepts: mind over matter. I’ve always suspected that what we think has a powerful effect on our physical health (let alone our mental health). And here’s more evidence...
by Christine Morgan | Mar 31, 2011 | General health, Mind/body, psychology
Placebo – now there’s something interesting, the concept that merely believing you’re taking a medicine that will cure you will make you better, even when the medicine you’re taking has no active ingredients (ie a dummy pill). And it divides...
by Christine Morgan | Mar 29, 2011 | General health, psychology, Weightloss
If anyone needed proof that today’s society is obsessed about physical appearance to the point of almost madness, here it is. According to a report from eating disorders charity The Succeed Foundation, compiled in association with the University of West England,...
