Self Health Care

Articles about alternative ways of treatment and self health care

OUR ARCHIVES : September 2008

Teenagers go under the knife for beauty

What are we teaching our kids these days? Plastic surgery has welcomed the insecurities of teenagers with open arms and plenty of anesthetic. And where are the parents in all this? Well, they’re the ones paying the medical bills – more than 250,000 operation for patients under 18 years in 2007. Well, I’ve got news [...]

ACOMPLIA? THAT’S NICE

My English teacher told everyone in class (repeatedly) that we should never use “nice”. “Nice,” she used to say with scorn, “is a lazy word.” What she meant was that, with so many adjectives to choose from, we should not just routinely pick nice. Well, that was then. Now “nice” is on every Brit weight [...]

Have (zit) gun, will travel

Back in the 1950s, Richard Boone starred as Paladin in one of the best TV Westerns ever made about a gun for hire. It was called, Have Gun – Will Travel. Today, our kids turn to other remedies to get rid of the thing they hate the most: acne – the bane of the teenager’s [...]