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How Ageism is Damaging People’s Health
Anyone over 45 knows that society is ageist, and as you get older you experience more ageism. As you get closer to 70 it gets harder to be served in bars, harder to get shop assistants to notice you and harder to get waiters to pay attention to your order. But a new study has
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How to Best Support Parents With Children
In my last blog I looked briefly at how much influence you can have on the children in your life that are not your children, ie grandchildren, nieces and nephews. How much influence can you have on their behaviour, attitudes, diet, values? This is such a delicate, complicated area. It is also difficult if you
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Signs You Are Experiencing An Existential Crisis – Part 2
In my last blog, I looked at signs that may indicate personal crisis, ie weight gain, mood fluctuations, lethargy. Today I will look at a few more indicators of personal crisis. The bushfires in Australia have prompted many people to ask what is the meaning of it all, where are we going, and what does
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Signs You Are Experiencing An Existential Crisis
In my last two blogs I wrote about the challenges of 2020 – the year has only just begun and already we feel that we are facing a plethora of problems including out-of-control bushfires, an unstable Middle-East and even a royal family beset by family problems. Some people have told me that the fire crisis
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How to Stick to Our Good Intentions
I guess you won’t be surprised if I tell you that January is the peak month for buying gym memberships and starting diets. Maybe we have all over-indulged at Christmas, and come January we are feeling the full effects of our lack of self-control. However 50 per cent of people joining gyms quit within the
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Are You Exhausted by Bad News?
The year is still young but already so many people are exhausted by bad news. More than 20 people dead, a billion animals wiped out and almost 5 million hectares burnt in Australia’s fires. If that isn’t bad enough, there is a prospect of another war in the Middle East. We are all praying for
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How to Respect People You Disagree With
2020 has only just begun, but it has been a very rough start. Much of my country, Australia, has burnt. Regardless of whether or not you are directly affected by the crisis, it has caused every Australian, emotional pain. It has been devastating, but what has made it even worse is that there is such
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The Concept of the Milkshake Duck and How it Took Off Worldwide
In my last blog I wrote about Macquarie Dictionary’s word for 2019 – ‘cancel culture’. Cancel culture is the online phenomenon of boycotting public figures who say or do the wrong thing. I personally don’t believe in ‘cancelling’ people, instead I think you should always give an individual the right to tell their side of
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Are Women More Likely to Reach for Junk Food When Stressed Than Men?
New research has found that female mice over-eat or binge eat when stressed out. The big question now: are women more likely to reach for junk food when stressed than men? Researchers from Melbourne’s Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health think that the female brain is more prone to overeating when emotional. In experiments
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How Can You Put The Brakes On Your Life?
Do you have a regular columnist you read in newspapers? Maybe Richard Glover in The Sydney Morning Herald or Sally Morrell in The Herald-Sun. From time to time I read Nikki Gemmell in The Weekend Australian. I loved her column this year on taking the bus. Nikki wrote, “the bus; that mode of transport Margaret
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Some Facts on World Carbon Emissions
Okay, I am not going to go there. I am not going to write a blog on climate change, because I know some of you believe in it and some of you don’t. I think there are people more qualified than me to convince you … one way or another. However I read an article
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Has Ignorance and Laziness Won?
Oh my gosh! Have you heard the news? The Apostrophe Protection Society is closing down, because (according to the founder) “the ignorance and laziness present in modern times has won”. John Richards, a former journalist and subeditor, dedicated his life to stamping out the misuse of apostrophes. He founded the Apostrophe Protection Society in England
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