Each time there is another outbreak of violence we focus our attention on things like gun control, treatment for mental illness, and how video-games, the movies, and the media contribute to the problem. It’s important that we have a general dialogue about violence, what causes it, and how to prevent it. But I believe it’s
“Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.” This quote is often attributed to Benjamin Franklin since it appeared in his Poor Richard’s Almanack, though the idea was likely around much earlier. Most of us could use some help with our health, our money-flow, and our wisdom. There are
Like most living things, I’m interested in sex. By sex I mean both the pleasurable act of sensual engagement as well as the reality that men are one sex and women are the other. Vive La Différence! As important as sex is in our lives, new findings from the emerging field of Gender-Specific Medicine (GSM) are
Depression is on the rise world-wide and most of us know someone who has been seriously depressed at some time in their lives. The World Health Organization World Mental Health (WMH) Survey Initiative, one of the most comprehensive studies ever done, found that over 120 million people suffer with depression and it is responsible for
Nelson Mandela spent a lot of his life confronting violence. In the introduction to the World Report on Violence and Health he says, “The twentieth century will be remembered as a century marked by violence. It burdens us with its legacy of mass destruction, of violence inflicted on a scale never seen and never possible
Most of us don’t want to think about suicide, but it is part of the human condition. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), suicide is a major public health problem in high-income countries and is an emerging problem in low and middle-income countries. Here are some things everyone should know: Suicide is one of
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