Healthy Life Essex blog: regular health and wellbeing blogs

February 05, 2019

STOMP: stopping the over-medication of people with a learning difficulty, autism or both

STOMP – Stopping the over-medication of people with a learning disability, autism or both What is STOMP? STOMP is a medication related project run by NHS England for people with a learning disability and/or autism. It is about ensuring that people get the right medicine if they need it and that people get all

February 04, 2019

Activity Scheme for Cancer Patients in Basildon, Brentwood and Thurrock

The successful pilot of an activity scheme for cancer patients in Thurrock has resulted in the launch of a new programme covering Basildon, Brentwood and Thurrock Charitable organisation Impulse Leisure, whose goals are to help the local community get active and healthy, has supported over 48 Cancer patients to improve their activity levels in a

February 01, 2019

Tinnitus: the symptoms, cause and treatment

Tinnitus: the symptoms, cause and treatment Despite being commonly thought of as a specific condition, tinnitus is actually not a disease nor an illness; it is a symptom generated when a problem occurs in the auditory system. Tinnitus affects over 6 million people in the UK of all age ranges but is more common in

January 31, 2019

Always Look on the Bright Side of Life

Always Look on the Bright Side of Life My thinking and reading for the past couple of years – since Brexit and Trump really – trying to fathom just what’s going on in our crazy, chaotic world has led me through fear and anxiety and has brought many surprises, but my biggest surprise of all

January 30, 2019

Kelly Swain: a driving ambition to support emotional wellbeing

Kelly Swain: a driving ambition to support emotional wellbeing I’m Kelly Swain. You may have read my introductory article ‘Kelly Swain – My Journey’ published on this website last September? I spoke about my personal journey with mental health issues which were compounded by physical problems resulting from the traumatic birth of my second child.

January 30, 2019

3 Steps to Fight Your Alcohol Addiction

3 Steps to Fight Your Alcohol Addiction Admit it. You have a problem and we’re all going to die if you keep this up! Left unchecked, you may die from the very thing you can’t live without. And we die a little each day watching you drink yourself to death, silently, insidiously. Alright, now that

January 29, 2019

What is an OCT eye examination?

What is an OCT eye examination? Most people are fairly familiar with a standard eye test – you read the lines of letters on the chart, you have a light shone in your eyes, say whether lenses make things better or worse and that’s about it, right? As technology has developed, so too has what

December 14, 2018

Why you should be Smokefree

It’s no secret that tobacco is dangerous to health, regardless of how you smoke it. Do you know what’s in your cigarette? There are no safe substances in any tobacco products (from acetone and tar to nicotine and carbon monoxide) and when these ingredients burn, they generate more than 7,000 chemicals, according to the American

December 13, 2018

Rise Up and seek out the truth!

Hi, my name is Kelli I’m a Poet, Local Volunteer, and Activist, based in Chelmsford City centre. I have a passion for learning, and am interested in all manner of subjects, from the stories of the past to stories of today to the myriad of ideas about the future. I found poetry around 2 years

December 12, 2018

New Economics

“Capital is the lifeblood that flows through the body politic of all societies. We see capitalism spreading out sometimes as a trickle and other times as a flood into every nook and cranny of the inhabited world.” David Harvey, British academic, professor of anthropology and geography at the City University of New York Although I

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