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Health Matters – To Run Or Not
Exercise is bad for you. It’s something I’ve heard a lot on the island recently, and I can see why. However, not exercising is worse! We have worried about exercising too vigorously since the time of the Ancient Greeks. The messenger Pheidippides ran 150 miles in two days when the Persians invaded at Marathon in… »
Health Matters – Walking and Talking
I felt an icy trickle down my back when I heard the news. If you can remember back that far, last month’s report that our memory starts to get worse in our forties was a bit of a wakeup call. Five out of six people who get to 80 won’t get dementia. But one in… »
Health Matters – Let there be light (and dark!)
There’s a new medicine on Tiree. It’s free. It’s all around us (during the day, anyway). It makes us sleep like babies and wake up full of energy. It stops us feeling depressed. But, like all medicines, there’s a downside, if we don’t use it properly. It can keep us awake at night, and even… »
Swine Flu – Is the Health Service on Tiree prepared?
With daily newspaper reports of this new flu virus, An Tirisdeach wondered just how prepared our own medical service was if a much feared flu pandemic was to occur here on Tiree. What is a pandemic? A pandemic occurs when a new flu virus which people have no immunity to occurs and spreads as easily… »
