Babies and the adults handling them tend to enjoy it, which is reason enough. The health claims made for baby massage are a great deal larger than the evidence behind them.
CBT is the most widely available talking therapy in the UK and the most widely misdescribed. It does not ask whether a thought is cheerful but whether it is accurate and whether believing it is useful — and the behavioural half, usually left out, does most of the work.
Yoga does a lot of people a lot of good, and it is not a treatment for mental illness. Where it sits in UK guidance, which mechanisms are plausible and which are not, the cautions that are rarely mentioned, and why the version of this advice that promises too much does real harm.
Sexual health services are confidential, including for under-16s, and the exceptions are narrow enough to state exactly. Where to go, what is free, the age of consent, contraception and emergency contraception, testing, the HPV vaccination and consent.
Air fresheners and deodorizers - Our homes can harbor many unpleasant smells. Whether it’s the stinky gym shoes, the kitty litter box or the bathroom, we often get rid of those smells with air fresheners. However, fresheners often contain naphthalene and formaldehyde, two very toxic and cancer causing agent. There are wonderful natural fresheners, and essential oils or simply open the windows.
Which plastics carry which concerns, why the recycling number is not a safety grade, and what the regulators have actually done about bisphenol A — including the twenty-thousand-fold revision one committee made and another declined to accept. Plus why "BPA-free" is less reassuring than it looks, and the three claims worth retiring.
Anxiety and stress are part of our life. They’re our body’s way of coping. Rather than take a pharmaceutical to manage anxiety, take advantage of nature and consider on natural anxiety cures.
There is no legal grading system for essential oils, so "therapeutic grade" certifies nothing — what a label can actually tell you, how adulteration works, and why an oxidised oil is not just weaker but more likely to cause a reaction.
Essential oils are concentrated, and that concentration is the whole of the safety question. What ingestion, dilution, sensitisation, sunlight, children, pregnancy, animals, diffusers and fire actually require — and where inhaling vapour for a blocked nose is a legitimate and long-standing use.
Like cures like, extreme dilution, and the single remedy — set out accurately, then examined. Why homeopathy is not herbal medicine, why the vaccine analogy fails, what fifty-seven systematic reviews concluded, what a registration number on the box does and does not mean, and the honest explanation for why people find it helps.
Essential oils, absolutes, CO2 extracts, hydrosols, infused oils, resins and carrier oils are six different kinds of product rather than stronger and weaker versions of one — what each actually is, how extraction changes what is in the bottle, and why there is no such thing as therapeutic grade.
