Health

STOCK UP: CREATING YOUR HEALTHIEST SELF by Janea Ifill, Registered Nutritionist As Barbadians we always wait until the night before the hurricane to stock up. We suffer the exhausted lines in the supermarket and mini-marts to purchase our canned goods and water. Why are we such a reactive society? Being proactive with our health means we take responsibility, and actively become

KEVIN FARMER vs The Widow Maker TESTIMONY OF A HEART ATTACK SURVIVOR by Jason Sifflet Kevin Farmer was an active teenager, an athlete, a cadet with enough consciousness to watch what he ate. He was always a big boy, in danger of being overweight, but as he grew up, he exercised and took care of himself. But everybody lapses some times. And even if he didn’t,

SURVIVING & SOARING: by Katrina Welch January 2014 started like any other year for Kimberley Bourne. She was full of hope, and expectations for a good year ahead and as she prepared to embark upon the New Year, she made a list of her goals which included completing routine health checks such as a dental visit and a Pap smear exam. However, what the mother of one did not anticipate,

by Nick Nunes It’s fantastic, it’s fast, it’s frighteningly addictive, and it’s everywhere. If you dream back to feudal times, no one, even the lower economic classes of the 21st century, could deny that we live with taken-for-granted luxuries that ancient emperors would blush to even imagine. Picture the awe that a simple Hot Pocket would inspire upon presentation to an Elizabethan

A NEW LOOK AT NARCOTICS by Nick Nunes The word narcotic gets thrown around a lot. As with many of our English words, this one is of ancient Greek origin. It comes from a word that meant “to make numb”. Originally, it was a medical reference to any drug that was psychoactive in nature and used for numbing or paralysis. In the 20th and 21st centuries, it has been most associated

FEEL G OOD by Katrina Welch The human body is nothing short of amazing. Oftentimes, we don’t think about how our body works, we just know that it does. We think, we move around, we speak, we grow, and our features even change with time. These actions are all as a result of the complex systems at work beneath the surface of our skin. Our feelings are an example of such systems at work.