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Who’s Paying For Lunch?
Every day, doctor’s lunch rooms around the world are filled with the aroma of various delightful foods. From pastries to sandwiches, to your favourite Thai takeaway – it’s all on offer. But who is offering, and what exactly? The lunches I am referring to are those sponsored, paid for or conducted by pharmaceutical companies. It has become
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Big Pharma/ Bad Pharma – What is Our Way Back to True health?
Currently we are in a position in healthcare where big, billion dollar companies – including pharmaceuticals and private health conglomerates – are funding and governing many important decisions, health care models and trials for up and coming medications. More and more as people we are realising that the outcomes of many of these decisions are
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Competition – How is it affecting Our Health?
There is a phrase common to us in society that talks about ‘healthy competition’. What is this competition though, and how is it truly affecting our health? Competition works towards an outcome where we are deemed better or worse than another, and in observation of society, it is everywhere. When we are born we
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Misogyny
Misogyny means the hatred of women and the word as we know it in the English language is derived from the Greek ‘misos’ meaning hatred and ‘gyny’ relating to women, and can also be related to the female physicality expressed through the ovaries, womb (uterus) and cervix. There is a culture of misogyny that runs deep and wide
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Cyber-Abuse: A Very Real Threat to Our Health
The effect cyber-abuse has on our society is something that is emerging more and more, but is not yet fully seen for the immense damage it is creating amongst young people and adults alike. A recent global survey conducted by ‘All Rise: Say No to Cyber Abuse’ of over 12000 people showed that 3 in
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Self-Nurturing – Where to begin?
For many the concept of self-nurturing may seem like a very foreign concept. I know for me it has been a process of unfoldment over the past few years, to get to the stage now where I know what nurturing is for me and can easily incorporate it into my day, if I so choose to (which
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