Archive for the 'Mind, body & spirit' Category

Depression study sees mortality rates plummet

Sunday, June 3rd, 2007

Taken from the 31/05/07 e-newsletter from wddty.co.uk:
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CANCER: Death rate drops 60 per cent if you have someone to talk to
Yet more evidence of a link between the body and mind comes in a new study of elderly people with severe depression.
Those who were assigned a ‘depression coach’ were far less likely to […]

Removing homeopathy from the NHS

Wednesday, May 30th, 2007

Taken from the 24th May e-newsletter from wddty.co.uk - visit the website to subscribe if stories like the one below interest you:
BULLY BOYS: Doctors continue to push homeopathy out of the NHS
A small but vociferous group of doctors and scientists seems determined to remove homeopathy from the National Health Service.
The group has […]

Goji berries and Yacon tuber

Sunday, October 2nd, 2005

I went to the Mind Body Spirit Northern Festival at Manchester’s G-Mex on Saturday. I had a wander around and found a stall run by a company called Creative Nature who sell herbs, teas, wheatgrass, incense and superfoods. And I am SO glad I went to their stall, otherwise I would still be […]