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This was a cold—indeed bloodcurdling—headline in a medical journal, by a lady called Christine M. Sarteschi, PhD, LCSW. She’s an associate professor of social work and criminology at Chatham University in Pittsburgh and I start with her words… Historically, it was common for people with mental illness to be incarcerated, tortured, even killed. I wrote […] The post Can We Please Stop Shooting Mentally Ill Patients? appeared first on Dr. Keith Scott-Mumby.

Eventually we all reach that point. When you’re a child, you can’t wait for a birthday to arrive. You’ll even add half a year on to your age when people ask how old you are, all in your rush to grow up. As the years progress, the time arrives when you finally realize enough is […]

Eventually we all reach that point. When you’re a child, you can’t wait for a birthday to arrive. You’ll even add half a year on to your age when people ask how old you are, all in your rush to grow up. As the years progress, the time arrives when you finally realize enough is […] The post The Third Age is Here – Can You Control How You Age? appeared first on Dr. Keith Scott-Mumby.

Caffeine gets a hard rap sometimes; and coffee isn’t supposed to be a health food! However, facts is facts (don’t write to me about my grammar, thank you). There is a large bunch of studies, which keeps growing, showing coffee to have benefits or protect from a wide variety of illnesses, from Alzheimer’s to cancer. Or more exactly, coffee-drinkers benefit and seem to suffer less than tea or juice only drinkers. So it isn’t necessarily cause and effect—it might mean coffee drinkers have some other health benefit, that leads them to drink more coffee than average. So coffee drinkers do well, but not because they drink coffee. That’s an important caveat. That said, here we go:

Caffeine gets a hard rap sometimes; and coffee isn’t supposed to be a health food! However, facts is facts (don’t write to me about my grammar, thank you). There is a large bunch of studies, which keeps growing, showing coffee to have benefits or protect from a wide variety of illnesses, from Alzheimer’s to cancer. Or more exactly, coffee-drinkers benefit and seem to suffer less than tea or juice only drinkers. So it isn’t necessarily cause and effect—it might mean coffee drinkers have some other health benefit, that leads them to drink more coffee than average. So coffee drinkers do well, but not because they drink coffee. That’s an important caveat. That said, here we go: