Lifestyle

Hi Everyone A friend just told me about a great new show starting tonight on ABC1 (Australia) called Making Australia Happy.? It starts at 8.30 pm tonight and is a 3 part series. I don’t know all the details about the show, but if you are having difficulties with sleep because of anxieties, depression, stress, [...]

I don’t want to bore you with too many statistics today, but here are a few that are worth noting: The most common mental health problem in Australia, according to an ABS (Australian Bureau of Statistics) study was anxiety disorder.  In fact it affected 14% of all people aged 16-85 years in the 12 months [...]

Wednesday morning I was helping Virgin Active Health Clubs announce the results of their new sleep survey that was focused on workers obtaining a healthier and more balanced lifestyle, increasing their productivity and motivation at work, etc. A fabulous focus, don’t you agree?  I haven’t seen such a useful survey designed to help 9 to [...]

Catalyst this Thursday ABC1, 8:00 pm has information on obesity and sleep; sugar diabetes and sleep etc. Recommended watch.

There are a raft of food additives and colorings that have been linked with snoring and sleep apnea. Study this list as part of your natural sleep strategy.

Sue Dengate’s book Fed Up will help you and your children in an increasingly chemical and complicated world. Behavior, sleep habits, attitude, bed-wetting, attentiveness, learning styles, defiance etc are often dictated by what they eat and their chemical environment. The Failsafe Cookbook will explain how to establish what your intolerances are, and how to sleep better by eliminating nasty substances from your life.

Sleep Sheep – to help your infant and baby sleep There used to be a special sound machine that I sold through this website which is no longer available, but I did find this cute little?Sleep Sheep?- which might be very helpful for getting your babies and toddlers off to sleep. There are a couple [...]

Phenergan or Promethazine for Sleep When my son was quite small I observed quite a few mums giving their infants and children (sometimes very young) Phenergan/Promethazine to settle them down, or to pacify them on long plane flights etc. We are not advocating this at all. Promethazine is an antihystamine with sedative, antiemetic (vomiting and [...]

Plane Crashes and other Errors Just finished reading ‘Outliers’ by Malcolm Gladwell, and there was some interesting information about plane crashes, how they happen etc in the chapter called ‘The Ethnic Theory of Plane Crashes’. Here are some revealing quotes: “In a typical crash, for example, the weather is poor – not terrible, necessarily, but [...]

Tiger Woods Can’t Sleep

When they interviewed Tiger Woods on national TV in Australia when he was here recently for the Australian Masters Golf Tournament he said he had trouble sleeping. Ahem!? He was only bragging. I was feeling sorry for him, wondering how I could help.  !!? MMMmm!  Form a queue. So now there are a lot of [...]