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Health

Life Stages

May 14, 2010

Life comes in waves. First are the playdate and sleepover days. It seems to take forever for the next wave, the 18th’s and 21st’s to come along. Then the wedding invitations start to trickle in, before becoming an avalanche in a few years’ time. Babies start arriving and the playdates start all over again. By [...]

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Good News Day

October 15, 2009

Last visit to my haemo in September I wasn’t able to get any results. It seems Medicare are tightening their belt and decided that they will only pay for the leukaemia marker test every three months. I’d seen a different doctor the time before and he’d ordered the test a month early, so it wasn’t [...]

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10 Benefits of Yoga

April 15, 2009

Photo by tarotastic After a long time thinking about it, I was recently able to swing childcare, school and location so I could enrol in a yoga class. I knew some of the benefits of yoga and they seemed to fit well with what I wanted from a health perspective. My yoga teacher has been [...]

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Childhood Immunisations

February 23, 2009

For me the decision to vaccinate our kids was a no brainer. I’m a numbers person. When I looked at the chances of suffering side effects from immunisations compared with the chances of complications arising from the various viruses we were trying to quash, the vaccine always won out. I’m not going to go into [...]

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Looking after yourself

November 14, 2008

Here I am on the sunny side of a lingering virus. I know I’m on the mend because I’m actually beginning to formulate some posts in my mind. I’m beginning to feel like writing again. In case you hadn’t noticed, posting here hasn’t been high on my to do list of late It’s been around [...]

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Eat to save your life

July 18, 2008

Image via Wikipedia Earlier this week I watched Jamie Oliver’s Eat to Save Your Life. What a fascinating program. It was based around analysing the diet of a group of ordinary people and then shocking the pants off them by telling them what would happen if they didn’t change their bad food habits. I think [...]

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