Positive Health Online

Editorial Issue 13

by Sandra Goodman PhD

What happens at the interface of mind and body is arguably one of the most exciting and profound areas of health and life today, as it has been through the millennia. Not by accide...

Editorial Issue 12

by Sandra Goodman PhD

There are so many modalities by which people can be treated and healed. This is a central truism emerging in this issue, so elegantly put by Leon Chaitow in his column (page 19) an...

Editorial Issue 11

by Sandra Goodman PhD

One of the many reasons that complementary medicine seems to get the short end of the stick when it comes to money, recognition and validation, is that by espousing to care for the...

Editorial Issue 10

by Sandra Goodman PhD

Complementary Medicine appears to be making significant progress - growing popularity with the public, increased albeit sometimes begrudging acceptance by the medical profession,...

Editorial Issue 27

by Sandra Goodman PhD

Can you remember those times in your life when you have suffered a severe disappointment – when the penny finally dropped that someone close to you, or whom you trusted, had betray...

Editorial Issue 30

by Sandra Goodman PhD

It has become an accepted fact that the causes of many cancers and other diseases are determined to a significant extent by environmental and dietary factors, including smoking, dr...

Editorial Issue 33

by Sandra Goodman PhD

Cancer survival statistics make for sober reading, especially these days when the media are always ready to announce "breakthroughs" or "miracle cures". Most intelligent people who...

Editorial Issue 36

by Sandra Goodman PhD

What attributes make for a good practitioner, and, perhaps, more importantly, which sort of practitioner is right for you and your particular health problem? These fundamental ques...

Editorial Issue 39

by Sandra Goodman PhD

Nothing infuriates me more than hearing some "expert" pontificating about the lack of research or lack of proof regarding the therapeutic efficacy of complementary medicine.

Editorial Issue 42

by Sandra Goodman PhD

Where do you go to sort out your health problems? With such an incredible array of hugely diverse therapeutic approaches – from Healing, Reiki, Homoeopathy, Herbs, Nutrition, to Bo...

Editorial Issue 45

by Sandra Goodman PhD

Don't we tend to pride ourselves with being well-informed and knowledgeable? With all the high-tech gizmos, internet and network communications available, don't we congratulate our...

Editorial Issue 48

by Sandra Goodman PhD

I sometimes fantasise (as I know many of us do) about what it would be like to live in another era, say before electricity, the car, radio, television, or the telephone. In fact, t...

Editorial Issue 25

by Sandra Goodman PhD

It seems the notion that having a positive attitude toward the therapy you are currently receiving will enhance its therapeutic effect has become a perceived truism.

Editorial Issue 28

by Sandra Goodman PhD

There is a clichéd and outmoded notion that as we grow older we get more rigid in our beliefs and ways of viewing the world. As a teenager I enthusiastically embraced the slogan th...

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...