So many people hail the benefits of massage and say how great they feel afterwards, people are willing to pay serious money to get it done professionally and they come out of it glad they paid for the service. So is this all a placebo effect or do we actually receive positive physical effects from massage? One […] Read more »

There are millions of overweight people in the world, particularly the western world, and unfortunately when a person is overweight it gets harder and harder for them to lose it. There are social factors involved such as having to give up some of your free time to workout or figure out the calories in your […] Read more »

Now I don’t know about you, but I’m not a person who exercises to keep fit. It all seems far to sweaty for me but I know that there are many millions of people out there who get a great kick out of doing physical exercise. I will often hear my exercise loving friends spouting […] Read more »

‘Shell shock’ was a common diagnosis for soldiers in the first world war, and sadly many of those suffering from it, who refused to return to ‘the front’, were shot for cowardice. A lot of what was described as ‘shell shock’ then was probably post traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, which has most recently come […] Read more »