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Positive Health PH Online November 2024 Issue 298 is published 17 October 2024. The world situation appears desperately bleak; how can we continue to live being hopeless? My jaw is beyond dropping upon hearing Iranian senior leaders praising attacks on Israel as legal,  justified and “minimum punishment”. How can Lebanon continue with Israel’s continuous and heavy bombing and destruction of Beirut?

With the 2024 US Elections on 5 November, the polls are too close to call between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. Melania Trump has come out in support of abortion – anomaly?

Here in the UK we await the Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ budget due to be delivered 30 October.

Here are a number of authoritative sites with a non-mainstream take on health news:

Alliance for Natural Health International: Intermittent fasting helps obese teenagers improve health and wellbeing.

Chris Woollams of Cancer Active: Can Long Covid be treated with nicotine patches? Researchers are looking at whether nicotine patches can displace SARS-CoV-2 spike protein from attaching to nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAchR) and controlling nerve and brain function in Long Covid.

Professor Karol Sikora: I keep thinking about this poor young man and the suffering he must have gone through. So many were failed by our response to COVID, which undoubtedly will take more life-years than the virus ever will. It was a total catastrophe - the biggest policy mistake in my lifetime.

Vaccine Choice Canada: Every so often a study comes along that shakes the bedrock of medicine. The Control Group compared unvaccinated adults to vaccinated adults in the U.S. and what they discovered is incredible. Link to the full report: https://vaccinechoicecanada.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/ControlGroupFullReport-Feb2021.pdf Vaccine facts: https://vaccinechoicecanada.com/about-vaccines

Dying With Dignity Canada: ICYMI: By the end of October, patients in Quebec will be able to make an advance request for medical assistance in dying before their condition impairs their ability to consent. Read more about this significant update in the end-of-life rights movement.

Positive Health PH Online November 2024 Issue 298  publishes a selection of editorial features covering a wide spectrum of treatment approaches encompassing Mind / Body / Spirit including Editorial Features,  Letters to the Editor, Research Updates and Short Features and Brief Takes.

The following articles in Issue 298  discuss Mind/Body Spiritual/ aspects of our health and attitudes:

Daoist Tips For The 21st Century: The Benefits of Light and Dark

Play, Learn, Grow: Why Playgrounds are Vital to Childhood Development

As a Caretaker of a Child: What Does Self-Care Even Look Like to You?

The following articles discuss nutritional, biochemical and genetic aspects of our health and wellbeing:

Nanomedicine – Making Treatment Safe and Precise

The Eclipse Of Neo-Darwinism? – Environment: Conditions Of Life: Conditions Of Existence

How to Educate Yourself on Eye Health Risks

Testing for Alzheimer’s Disease – What Does and Doesn’t Work

The following editorial features focus upon bodywork and mind/body aspects of  treatments:

Why Bother being a Member of a Professional Association?

How We Can Empower Ourselves to Strengthen our Bodies and Minds

Letters to the Editor Issue 298 include topics: Promising Treatment for Incurable Prostate Cancer; Do Cancer and Cancer-Related Treatments Increase Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Older Cancer Survivors?; New Study Reveals Breakthrough in Early Melanoma Detection; Concern over School And University Starters as Immunity Levels Fall Below WHOs Recommendations; Research Casts New Light on Effectiveness of Prevention of Weight Gain in Young Adults.

Research Updates Issue 298 include Research in the following areas: cancer, colon health, environmental, essential oils, exercise, heart, meditation, women's health, yoga

I unequivocally recommend PH Online November 2024 Issue 298  for your gratification, enrichment and clinical education.