Talks, Health Fair, Reviews & More
Hello! I hope you all had a great Easter and didn’t overdo the eggs! I bought a beautiful Lindt egg for my husband and I to share and didn’t realise that it was dark chocolate which I don’t like!! Luckily the little chocoalate bars that were with it were heavily flavoured with orange and mint so they were delicicious!!
Top 10 tips on a (relatively) stress free Menopause
Talk on Tuesday 13th May, 7-9pm, Gladstone’s Library, Hawarden. Tickets £5.00 in advance and £10 on the door.
This talk will cover what goes on in your body during the run up to, during and after the menopause, and what you can do to keep the symptoms at bay. If you are a way off the menopause but are have PMT symptoms you will also find this talk useful.
What is Kinesiology and how it can help you achieve a contented and fulfilled life
Two opportunities to attend! The first talk is on Monday 12th May, 7-9pm, for the Federation of Holistic Therapists Wrexham Group at Rhostyllen Parish Hall and Institute, Vicarage Hill, Rhostyllen, Wrexham, LL14 4AR. £5.00 members, £8.00 non-members (you are all welcome although it would be helpful to know numbers as we provide tea/coffee and biscuits as part of the fee which you pay on the door) I will be paying particular attention to Core Beliefs and how these can hold you back and am intending to work on at least 6 people during the evening.
The second talk will be for the Federation of Holistic Therapists Chester Group at Greenhouse Therapies, Parkgate Road, Chester on Friday 30th May, 7-9.30pm. All other details are the same.
Health & Wellbeing Fair, Sunday 18th May, 10-3pm, Guildhall Chester, entry FREE!
I will be having a table at this fair and will be there with the Water Re-Energising Coasters as well as a few other lovely goodies. It will be lovely to see you so please come along and say hello! If you want more information please go to www.mygreenpages.co.uk.
Book Reviews
As a lot of you know I read – a lot! And I tell a lot of you about some of the lovely and occasionally not so lovely things that I have learnt. I have been thinking that it would be a good idea to do a book review blog about these. As not all of them are about business or health topics I have decided to have a separate blog and the first review is already there at www.rarelydogeared.blogspot.co.uk and the second will be appearing soon. This will be on “The Antidote” by Oliver Burkeman which is about Happiness for people who can’t stand positive thinking! Appropriately the first review is of a fabulous book “The Library Book” (and as soon as I work out how to put pictures on the blogs you’ll get to see the front of the book too!) which is a collection of essays by authors, journalists and others on the importance of having libraries and in particular, local ones. If you are interested please let me know what you think.
And now for some health nuggets…..
– Did you know that superbugs don’t like brass or copper? They love plastic and stainless steel apparently and can live for weeks but sit them on a brass door plate or copper handrail and they die within minutes. So maybe all those lovely brass fittings in old hospitals were there for more than good looks.
– The National Trust Skyline walk in Bath is about 6 miles long, the most popular walk on their website and takes about 2.5 hours. Interestingly though it burns as many calories as 90 minutes of football or 2 hours of dancing and it listed as moderate so not particularly hilly! So you don’t need to be frenetic – you just need to DO something.
– Which? findings that health supplement claims are misleading have been defended by the industry. Just because the European Food Safety Authority has rejected health claims on the basis of limited trials does not mean that individuals who take them don’t feel any benefits. We are not stupid – if you feel no different after taking a product claiming to reduce inflammation and pain in your knees you wouldn’t continue to take it! I think that we have to move more towards individualisation and not generalisation. Just because glucosamine works for you it may not work for me and we all accept that. Does that mean it’s not worth a try? Not in my book. I know that my body requires a certain amount of vitamins, minerals, essential fatty acids, etc and if it is not readily available in my food (as a vegetarian I will probabaly be low in Vitamin B12 and Omega 3 fatty acids) then I am certainly going to supplement. And no Which? report (which I usually am pretty impressed with) is going to persuade me otherwise. I fully intend to live a long and healthy life with and be of very little trouble to the NHS and supplementation is part of that plan!
– Meditation relaxes the body as well as the mind – well, that doesn’t come as much of a suprise does it? This time scientists looked at our body’s cells (rather than the brain which has been the usual research) and found that inflammatory markers were reduced and the genes that regulate the pro-inflammatory response were supressed after a meditation session to a similar level that would be expected by taking pain medication. So as most pain medication has some fairly nasty side effects long term maybe daily meditation would be a better prescription!
And that’s it from me today. Please let me know what you think, share on Facebook and Twitter and have a great week.
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