Stroke Rates Rising in Young People Here is the cause Stephanie Relfe B.Sc. (Sydney) Scientists at Rutgers University used data on more than 227,000 hospitalizations for stroke from 1995 – 2014. The findings appeared in the Journal of the American Heart Association. Compared with the 1995-99 period, the rate of stroke in 2010-14 increased by a […]
Hallucinations Possible Causes A hallucination is the perception of something that is not really present in the environment, as opposed to an illusion, which is the misinterpretation of something that is present. For example, seeing a cat where there is nothing is a hallucination, but mistaking your coat rack for a person is an illusion. […]
Chocolate Facts: It’s Very Bad for Your Health by Stephanie Relfe B.Sc. (Sydney) I was shocked the other day when I was having a phone conversation with a woman about health. This woman was under the impression that chocolate is a food! Let me be very clear. IT IS NOT A FOOD. IT IS A […]
CAFFEINE KILLS Okay, I know this article won’t be popular. Most of us are so addicted to Caffeine that we don’t want to know about it. I am writing this because when “Caffeine Blues” came out I just knew I had to read it. Several years ago I began to realise that coffee was […]