While it’s often been said that good things come in small parcels, recent research seems to suggest that it may not be so good to begin life as a really small parcel.
A study of death figures of over 300,000 Swedish men published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health has concluded that babies...
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Archive for January, 2008
Travelling through life – the long and the short of it
Saving money on your medicines
Often the need to take medicines is unexpected; so we don’t anticipate what the cost of medicines might be and make some allowance in our budget.
For those of us required to take medicines regularly – perhaps for a chronic condition like arthritis, asthma, depression, diabetes, epilepsy or heart disease – the costs might seem...
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Moisturising from the inside out
Unless you work for the weather bureau, the only thing we can predict about the weather is its unpredictability.
While much of our country still suffers the effects of severe drought, floods are overwhelming towns in Queensland and northern NSW. The north coast is still threatened by cyclone activity and east coast beaches have...
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Good news for quitters
Now less than 20% of the Australian adult population smokes; and a significant proportion of this 20% would like to join the other 80% as non-smokers.
No surprise really that many (maybe most) smokers would quit if they could. We all know the dangers of tobacco smoking. Despite the prevalence of smoking in Australia being...
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