HEALTH EDUCATION

I can still remember in horror my grandmother grumbled in her overgrown garden picking these leaves in the leaves, throwing them all into a pot of boiling water and drinking it. Of course at the time I, plus a lot of the other young members of the family, thought she was quite mad and more than a little weird. What we didn’t realise at the time was that Grandmother was saner than any of us and quite the herbalist, and it seems,  quite a brilliant one at that. As much as I rack my brain I can’t remember her suffering from anything so common as the common cold in her entire long life time. Of course, some might say it had nothing to do with her unusual er…habits, she was just one of those lucky few who experience a better health for most of their charmed lives. Of course, I …

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As an experienced Occupational Health Nurse, I have always wondered why it is that some HR professionals and managers write to GPs rather than ask an Occupational Health specialist for a report to help them to manage absence. Occupational Health is the speciality of medicine which has the knowledge skills and training to provide advice on fitness for work in any industry setting and also has specialist knowledge of the diseases of occupations

Asking a GP, who has never had any occupational health training or even visited a workplace, for an opinion on fitness to work, rarely provides any useful advice on capability. It generally lengthens the management of the absence as GPs are very busy and can take weeks before a response is received and the report can be expensive.

Maybe it’s time to review your approach?

1. In my experience, non-medical people writing for a GP report are …

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Eating healthy and living a healthy lifestyle is one of the things that many people are ignoring these days as life tends to become too busy with goals, chasing dreams and of course, dealing with day to day stress and challenges. If you are one of those trying to start living a healthy life, read on for some steps to help you start eating healthy as well.

Indeed, eating healthy is one of the biggest steps to help you start living a healthy life. Aside from that, you also need to start an active lifestyle which is also one of the most ignored elements of living healthy as well.

– Assess your daily routine. This will help you assess how much calories you will also need to get you going through your daily activities. To start eating healthy, you need to balanced your diet as well as your metabolism as …

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The way to be satisfied in life isn’t something tough to do. Somehow, we are just creating our lives unhappy by the choices we make and in going immediately after what we assume can make us satisfied. Happiness could come from the simplest hug to a game of baseball, or a volunteer perform at a charity. Sometimes we just have to be reminded to take time to take pleasure in what we have to be delighted in life. I’ve listed right here some items that might be an answer on the best way to be pleased in life.

1) Never forget to have a very good laugh. Becoming delighted may very well be as uncomplicated as getting a fantastic laugh. Never take life also seriously. Get pleasure from a good joke with pals, with co-workers or with family members. A superb laugh often radiates a constructive feeling to other persons. …

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