Scientific Wellness Blog

Posted on Tue, 16 Mar 10

Cancer is a preventable lifestyle disease

Cancer is a preventable lifestyle disease yet every year cancer claims tens of billions of human lives with drug treatment costing hundreds of billions. Despite enormous investment in cancer treatment most cancer therapies are highly toxic, ineffective and unaffordable to greater than 80% of the world population (1). More attention needs to be paid to lifestyle.

Posted on Tue, 9 Mar 10

Health and wellbeing may enhance sexuality

Sexual activity has been associated with health and longevity and a new report has found that sexuality (sexual activity and quality of sexual life) may be enhanced by a healthy lifestyle.

Posted on Mon, 8 Mar 10

Pleasure and positivity are powerful medicine

Pleasurable emotions such as joy, happiness, excitement, enthusiasm, and contentment are associated with a lower risk from heart disease, the leading cause of premature death in the western world.

Posted on Mon, 8 Mar 10

Anger management might save your life

Anger has been linked to an increased risk of fatal heart disease, however research has been paradoxical. In some studies anger increased risk while in others it was protective. Theses difference may be due to differences in how anger is expressed, whether it is a constructive adaptation to a problem, or simply used to blame others.

Posted on Mon, 8 Mar 10

Loneliness leaves women heartbroken

Compared to men, women may be particularly susceptible to the effects of poor quality relationships. Whereas men have a lower heart disease risk simply because they are in a relationship, the quality of the relationship is much more important to the health of women. Feelings of loneliness have an important effect on health and, interestingly, are not determined by the amount of social interactions but their quality.

Posted on Thu, 25 Feb 10

Food labelling: information or propaganda?

What if everything you had been told about nutrition was wrong? The health claims on the labels of processed and packaged foods are often misleading and designed to trick you into eating food that is bad for your health, even so called health foods.