Positive Health Online

Editorial Issue 31

by Sandra Goodman PhD

Complementary Medicine hasn't even achieved relegation status, because it hasn't yet officially joined the healthcare system league. While healthcare priorities entail high-tech, h...

Editorial Issue 34

by Sandra Goodman PhD

Happiness and Depression have become two of the most common, everyday words we bandy about. Yet, whereas talking, writing and giving seminars about how to achieve happiness can be ...

Editorial Issue 37

by Sandra Goodman PhD

During my lifetime, and particularly during the past 15 years, I have been at the receiving end of frankly outrageous diagnoses from a variety of practitioners, some of them fairly...

Editorial Issue 40

by Sandra Goodman PhD

Penny Brohn, internationally renowned campaigner for holistic cancer treatment and co-founder of the Bristol Cancer Help Centre, died late last year following a 15-year battle with...

Editorial Issue 43

by Sandra Goodman PhD

Very recently, a lovely woman known to all of us at Positive Health arrived in tears, with the devastating news that her 46-year old daughter had just been diagnosed with breast ca...

Editorial Issue 46

by Sandra Goodman PhD

It has been exciting to be able to review two outstanding books in this issue (please see pages 5-8), both documenting how nutrition can radically improve our health and even allev...

Editorial Issue 49

by Sandra Goodman PhD

While there is no shortage of acceptable practitioners around, when I have a health problem to sort out, I have always found it difficult to locate that really superb therapist who...

Editorial Issue 51

by Sandra Goodman PhD

I get really furious when so-called experts pronounce utter nonsense in an authoritative way to their captive audience on radio or television. So, imagine my reaction while listeni...

Editorial Issue 52

by Sandra Goodman PhD

You may have seen the recent headlines claiming that vitamin C causes clogged arteries and may therefore be a risk to heart disease. You may wonder what I, as an author of a book o...

Editorial Issue 18

by Sandra Goodman PhD

Nearly 40 years ago, a young child critically ill with meningitis, I lay close to death in a Montreal hospital. Memories of the attempts of the doctors to diminish the pain of spin...

Editorial Issue 29

by Sandra Goodman PhD

Shakespeare may have said that music has charms to soothe the savage breast, but this savage breast is not soothed by the enormous amount of misinformation about, especially regard...

Editorial Issue 32

by Sandra Goodman PhD

If you were at high risk of getting breast cancer what would you do? Suppose that you were in your early 30s, and a DNA test showed that you had inherited a gene with an 80% probab...

Editorial Issue 35

by Sandra Goodman PhD

The concept "you are responsible for creating your reality" has been around in various guises for ages. My father would say "the way you make your bed you will lie in it", and anot...

Editorial Issue 38

by Sandra Goodman PhD

When I was growing up, there were constant remarks from my parents and other "grown-ups" that as you got older you also became wiser and more experienced. I never had much truck fo...

Editorial Issue 41

by Sandra Goodman PhD

Sadly, more often than not, it is only when we ourselves, or someone close to us, become seriously ill that we realise our own fragility and lack of certain knowledge regarding nat...

Editorial Issue 44

by Sandra Goodman PhD

There are few subjects more emotive, and dare I say political, than food and diet. Just reflect upon the billions spent in advertising all manner of food and beverages, mainly of t...

Editorial Issue 47

by Sandra Goodman PhD

The Government has appointed a Cancer Supremo to try to prevent 100,000 cancer deaths over the next 10 years. On the news bulletins have been reports of more money, more Consultant...

Editorial Issue 50

by Sandra Goodman PhD

Given the ongoing somewhat ferocious scrutiny regarding the safety of the many diverse therapies within Complementary Medicine – Aromatherapy, Nutrition, Herbal Medicine – to name ...

Editorial Issue 53

by Sandra Goodman PhD

As a child growing up in relatively affluent Canada during the 1950s and 60s, some of my most powerful formative influences were the frequent famines and horrors of conflict – the ...

Editorial Issue 54

by Sandra Goodman PhD

The huge gulf which exists between natural-oriented therapies and people who follow more mainstream life practices never ceases to amaze me.