One of the most recurring health wisdoms is that you need to drink 8 glasses of water daily.
Also known as the 8×8 (8 glasses of 8 ounces each) or 2 Litres of water daily.
I seems to make sense to so many people, including bottled water sellers, that for many people it is pure common sense.
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The big splash last week about Australia being a gold-medal contender in the Obesity Olympics ain’t true.
The official stats from the OECD that came out at the start of 2008 (as pointed out to me by an observant patient of mine) show the US is 1st, Mexico 2nd, UK 3rd and Greece 4th.
Australia was a […]
In the world Olympic event for obesity, apparently the US has been dethroned.
Turns out in the “Australia’s Future Fat Bomb” Report as splashed across The Age newspaper that Aussies have put in a gold medal winning performance. This report finds that 26% of Australians are obese (BMI >30 ie significantly overweight) just pipping the US […]
This is the first full book review I have ever done on this blog. I am delighted that it is a review for this book, because “I Can Make You Thin” makes an historic contribution to weight loss and being naturally thin, and also to the entire field of self-help.
For almost 2 years now I […]
People say that your adult life is shaped by your childhood experiences.
Now I have my own young children I begin to recall all sorts of nursery rhymes, songs and tunes I haven’t heard for ages. What effect did they have on me I wonder?
I’m not sure that my mum singing “The Purple People-Eater” greatly influenced […]
Last year in September I wrote about a 47-year old professor, Randy Pausch, and his inspirational “Last Lecture” following his diagnosis with pancreatic cancer.
If you want to know why death is such an important part of being human, then view the video on my previous post.
Back then he had wide publicity, from Good Morning America […]
Last year in the city where I live they outlawed smoking indoors in public places.
Actually they did this quite a while back, but they had made an exception for hotels, pubs and bars. Now they’ve extended it to these places too. You have to have an outdoors area now if you want to have a […]