Clearlight Bodymind Awareness

"I am lucky to practice and teach several movement, awareness and healing systems all with their own valuable benefits. I like to provide a client with a complete package of well-being, whatever they need at any given time. Sometimes it is rehabilitation from injury, trauma, stress, insomnia, fitness training, sensory exploration, letting go of thought stories, motivation, encouragement, relearning, rediscovery, vigor, strength and the space to dream, imagine, and succeed in their goals. I am constantly motivated and excited by my exceptional clients with their inspiring goals that they will achieve or have achieved through their devotion to the challenges of learning to change."

http://www.oselnyima.com

The NHS - a stunningly cost effective supplier of high quality healthcare

"I suggest that the longevity problem is not a health issue: this is a societal issue. It’s the consequence of poor housing, inequality, poor health education, and many more such factors reflected in issues such as high obesity rates related to poor diet: a peculiarly British problem. The NHS cannot solve such problems. It’s not reasonable to berate it for failing to do so.

That aside, care is great in the NHS. OK. it’s not as patient focused as desired, but as the report says this is an issue where all countries could improve. No doubt that’s true, but we trade something important here: price for patient focus. Of course people can be at the core of the NHS, but you seriously increase the cost if you double the time seeing the patient: most of NHS cost is labour. The choice is a straightforward one: you can have a patient focused NHS so long as you’re willing to pay for it. If you are not willing to pay for it the patient focus will come at the cost of significantly reduced health outcomes. It’s a trade-off that I think most would not make if they were given the choice. I think the NHS has got this right."

http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2011/06/06/the-nhs-a-stunningly-cost-effective-supplier-of-high-quality-healthcare/

The Long Hair Community

http://longhaircommunity.com/

Vintage Ad for Fat-ten-u Products

"[...] a vintage ad that illustrates the way that beauty standards can change dramatically over time. The ad, for products called Fat-ten-u and Corpula, promises to help you get fat, a clearly desirable state:"

http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2011/04/23/vintage-ad-for-fat-ten-u-products/

British American Tobacco's Influence on the European Union Treaty

"Our findings suggest that BAT and its corporate allies have fundamentally altered the way in which all EU policy is made by making a business-oriented form of IA mandatory. This increases the likelihood that the EU will produce policies that advance the interests of major corporations, including those that produce products damaging to health, rather than in the interests of its citizens. Given that the public health community, focusing on health IA, has largely welcomed the increasing policy interest in IA, this suggests that urgent consideration is required of the ways in which IA can be employed to undermine, as well as support, effective public health policies."

http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.1000202

Should Wales care about NHS reform in England?

"England has gone for a market-driven model where the intention is for market forces and increased competition to drive up quality, whereas Wales has moved down a different route and is instead focusing on bringing together all the different strands of the NHS in a planned, co-ordinated and collaborative way. Rather than having a system where one group of people – in England’s case, GPs – decide how and where money should be spent, the emphasis here is on removing boundaries between organisations and making those decisions together with the community."

Read More http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/health-news/2011/01/24/as-the-uk-health-service-splits-in-four-the-nhs-in-wales-is-standing-by-its-collaborative-approach-91466-28041134

Designed to Smile / Cynllun Gwên

"Designed to Smile is a national Oral Health Improvement programme to improve the dental health of children in Wales. It is funded by the Welsh Assembly Government and was initially launched on the 30th January 2009 in both North and South Wales as a three year pilot. "

http://www.designedtosmile.co.uk/

Fat-ten-u

"I recently bought the book Food in the United States, 1820s-1890. I came across an ad for an interesting product that was sold in the late 1800s called Fat-ten-u. Check your calendars, it's not April fools day anymore; this is for real. Fat-ten-u was a dietary supplement guaranteed to "make the thin plump and rosy with honest fleshiness of form.""

http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/2011/04/fat-ten-u.html

Minor ailments treated for free at Welsh pharmacies

"Medicine for minor ailments will be available free from High-Street chemists under a Welsh government scheme. It is intended to free up GPs' time by making community pharmacists the first port of call."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-17284958

One hundred push-ups

"If you're serious about increasing your strength, follow this six week training program and you'll soon be on your way to completing 100 consecutive push ups!

Think there's no way you could do this? I think you can! All you need is a good plan, plenty of discipline and about 30 minutes a week to achive this goal!"

http://hundredpushups.com/

If you want to be popular, you can't afford to be skinny

"actress Linda Peck raves about "Wate-On," a weight-gain product that she "and so many other Hollywood actresses depend on...to help keep shapes shapely.""

http://jezebel.com/5399752/if-you-want-to-be-popular-you-cant-afford-to-be-skinny


http://vintage-ads.livejournal.com/1471144.html

The Claim: Exposure to Plants and Parks Can Boost Immunity

"In a series of studies, scientists found that when people swap their concrete confines for a few hours in more natural surroundings — forests, parks and other places with plenty of trees — they experience increased immune function. "

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/06/health/06real.html?_r=4

Two hundred squats

"If you're serious about increasing your leg strength and basic fitness, follow this six week training program and you'll soon be on your way to completing 200 consecutive squats! Think there's no way you could do this? I think you can! All you need is a good plan, plenty of discipline and about 30 minutes a week to achieve this goal!

http://www.twohundredsquats.com/

Two Hundred Sit-ups

"Most of you reading this won't even be able to manage 20 sit-ups. Actually, I'm sure many of you can't even do 10. However, it really doesn't matter which group you fall into. If you follow the progressive sit-ups training program, I'm positive you'll soon be able to do 200 sit-ups!"

http://www.twohundredsitups.com/

Smoking and sight loss

"The link between smoking and the UK's leading cause of sight loss is as strong as the link between smoking and lung cancer.

Smoking causes harm to the tissues of the eye. Research has confirmed the harmful effects of smoking on eyesight, particularly in the development of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) - one of the UK's leading causes of sight loss - and cataracts. "

http://www.rnib.org.uk/eyehealth/lookingafteryoureyes/Pages/smoking.aspx

NHS fares best on free access to healthcare

"Britain's health service makes it the only one of 11 leading industrialised nations where wealth does not determine access to care – providing the most widely accessible treatments at low cost among rich nations, a study has found."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/nov/18/nhs-best-free-access-healthcare

I haven't used soap or shampoo in a year, and it's awesome

"As I just mentioned, my skin feels better than ever before. Not that it ever felt bad, really, but it feels awesome now. Still no stink at all, I swear even when I'm really active and sweating I don't notice any B.O., and I used to be über self-conscious about this and would think I was stinking if I walked up a flight of stairs too quickly. So this is a huge improvement for sure."

http://www.boingboing.net/2011/01/04/i-havent-used-soap-i.html

A Death Foretold

"The difference between David Cameron and Tony Blair is that Blair was better at disguising his intentions. He would never have announced, for example, the sale of public forests. Instead he might have promised “a world-class forest estate” in which “walker-led beacon foundation woodlands” would be managed through “partnerships with a plurality of recreational providers”. Ten years later we would discover that our forests had mysteriously fallen into the hands of timber companies and were being felled in the name of customer choice. "

http://www.monbiot.com/2011/05/16/a-death-foretold/

Passive smoking 'kills 600,000' worldwide

"The first global study into the effects of passive smoking has found it causes 600,000 deaths every year.

One-third of those killed are children, often exposed to smoke at home, the World Health Organization (WHO) found."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-11844169

Nature 'is worth billions' to UK

"The UK's parks, lakes, forests and wildlife are worth billions of pounds to the economy, says a major report.

The health benefits of merely living close to a green space are worth up to £300 per person per year, it concludes."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13616543