by Christine Morgan | Jul 31, 2010 | Food and drink, General health
Ooh, I love a good ‘vitamins may kill you’ story (though they don’t exactly make ideal reading for riskfactorphobes). Why do I love them? Because, in the vast majority of cases, when you look beyond the sensationalist headlines and work out what the...
by Christine Morgan | Jul 29, 2010 | General health, Weightloss
Well, well, well. Just when you thought things couldn’t get any sillier with the shake-up of the NHS and all the shenanigans surrounding it, some new health minister comes up with a real gem. Anne Milton – who was speaking to the BBC in a personal capacity, she...
by Christine Morgan | Jul 28, 2010 | General health, Mind/body, Wellbeing
I’ve always been highly wary of the ridiculous trend for giving official medical names to behaviours that would, not that long ago, have been viewed as harmless, eccentric, difficult, moody or quirky (etc). But now things are taking a turn for the worse, with US...
by Christine Morgan | Jul 27, 2010 | General health
I remember being really sad when I read about the death of Hollywood actress, Brittany Murphy, towards the end of last year. Then the report into what happened came out and I thought, oh no, not another celeb accidentally overdosing on prescription medicines – apart...
by Christine Morgan | Jul 25, 2010 | Food and drink, General health, Parenting
Picked up a news story just now about how women who drink low-calorie soft drinks when they’re pregnant have a higher risk of having a premature birth. Ah, the age-old debate of artificial sweeteners raises its ugly head again. The internet is chock-a-block with...
