Healthy mum, healthy baby: Part 2
What to do – and what not to do – for the healthiest pregnancy and best birth outcomes
Healthy mum, healthy baby: Part 1
For the best chances of trouble-free pregnancy and birth and a healthy baby, mothers-to-be should start preparing well before they become pregnant.
Hearts, minds and bodies on fire: Loneliness, social isolation, inflammation and COVID-19
Social isolation kills. New research shows that loneliness and social isolation increase inflammation, which increase the risk of a dangerous ‘cytokine storm’ if we become infected with SARS-CoV-2.
Duelling coronaviruses: The intriguing possibility of cross-immunity
Newly published research provides insight into why children are largely immune from COVID-19, and how social distancing may remove that protection.
The fog of the war on COVID-19
Any declared war should have a clear objective. But what exactly is the objective of the War on Covid-19, and how would we know if we had won it?
The Big Fat Mind Trap
A single meal high in saturated fat impairs your ability to focus and concentrate, and regular intake changes the structure and function of your brain.
COVID-19 and philanthrocapitalism’s War on Public Health: Part 2 – Technological solutions to public health problems
In Part 1 of this series, I summarised the decades-long process via which neoliberalism and its offshoot, philanthrocapitalism, have derailed the New Public Health agenda laid out in the World Health Organization’s 1986 Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion. In Part 2, I’m going to narrow in on the ways in which philanthrocapitalism has directed the…
COVID-19 and philanthrocapitalism’s War on Public Health: Part 1 – Who funds WHO?
During my Honours degree in public health, I learned about the history of the public health movement, from its beginnings in the sewage disposal systems, aqueducts and public baths of the ancient Chinese, Egyptians, Greeks and Romans; to the formation of the World Health Organization in 1948; to the rise of the New Public Health…
Does social distancing actually work against COVID-19?
Social distancing has been broadly accepted as imperative to reduce the spread and impact of SARS-CoV-2, but evidence for its effectiveness is thin.
