Some sobering thoughts about alcohol
By all means drink this holiday season and enjoy yourself, but don’t be stupid. Remember these facts:
- If you drive at two times the UK legal limit for alcohol, you are 50 times more likely to be involved in a fatal car crash.
- Excess alcohol causes testosterone to drop and damages sperm.
- Coffee does not sober you up after too much alcohol. Don’t believe that it’s OK to drink to excess, have lots of coffee and then drive or operate machinery. Your judgment will still be impaired.
- Half a pint of beer contains the same amount of alcohol as a single measure of spirits. Don’t underestimate beer, when working out how much to drink safely.
- When you’ve had a lot of alcohol, you may feel sexy, confident and attractive, but excess alcohol makes most people unattractive, loud, stupid and embarrassing.
Failure Doesn’t Have To Be Disaster
In a British Heart Foundation booklet on losing weight they say:
“Don’t be hard on yourself. A lapse is not a collapse … Try not to set your goals as ‘all’ or ‘nothing’. Try to learn from what went wrong and get back on track as soon as possible.”
Wise advice - beating yourself up for past failures is a waste of time. Reviewing past failures and learning from them is wisdom.
Hearing Aid Waiting Times Set to be Cut
Hearing aid waiting times in the UK have been a growing issue for some time, with certain areas leaving patients waiting months if not years to be seen, and as a result left isolated from the outside world – something that can have severe effects on people’s lifestyles.
Health bosses have promised to reduce waiting times for those needing hearing aids to 6 weeks in early 2008 in Norfolk a spokeswoman from the Norfolk PCT has said.
This comes as a redesign of services at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital has helped to reduce waiting times for hearing aids, which has fallen from 25 to 12 weeks.
This will come as a breath of fresh air for those with hearing difficulties in the area, and is a stark contrast with waiting times in other areas of the country, where patients have had to wait for up to 3 and a half years to be treated.