Category: body

Medicalizing human behavior

June 9, 2006 | No comments yet

Claude Lewis got it right in a column he wrote for the Philadelphia Inquirer. He began, “It may be hard to recall, but once there was a time when people took responsibility for their behavior, without recourse to the psychiatric

Disease-mongering

June 7, 2006 | 1 comment

Have you noticed how pharmaceutical companies market disease to prompt people to buy their medicines? Actors and actresses in ads sneeze, cough, writhe in supposed pain, and put on a show of utter misery to catch viewer’s attention. Then a

It’s not God’s fault

April 28, 2006 | 1 comment

“How could God take the life of my three year old boy,” a mother cried after losing her child in a fire that burnt her family home. Human thought is filled with misconceptions of God, and the belief that God

Getting enough sleep

March 12, 2006 | No comments yet

“How do I get a good night’s sleep?” tired people are asking. Sleep has turned into big business in the United States, according to Forbes magazine. Millions of slumber-seekers are turning to pills, therapies, sleep labs, gimmicks, expensive mattresses and

It doesn’t take money

February 18, 2006 | 6 comments

A friend was saddened to tell me he had cancelled a trip to a sunny beach in the south because the travel was going to cost too much. He needed to save funds for attending work related conferences over the