The most striking thing I notice when people talk about health is that they think of it as being just like the weather. "It happens; and I didn't do it". We don't nowadays blame ourselves if the day is cloudy or stormy neither do we generally blame a weather god, we turn instead to the weather forecast and check the facts so we can decide whether to take an umbrella, wear waterproofs or just stay at home.…
Chronic disease is what most people die of. It is disease that works its way into our lives and often only becomes obvious in our middle years and lives with us generally becoming more of a burden as we age and at some stage becoming g more than we can handle by ourselves and forcing us to get professional help. But it does not have to be this way. Heart disease or more properly artery disease begins…
We have an epidemic of heart disease right across the world. We also have epidemics of diabetes, Alzheimer's, cancer and stroke. How big is the task facing our Doctors and hospitals of modern medicine? According to the World Health Organisation, " An estimated 17 million people die of CVDs, particularly heart attacks and strokes, every year." So you might be surprised by my claim that it is time to talk about wellness. How can such a woolly…