SuperLiving Newsletter Is Back!

We have been a bit slow sending out our SuperLiving Newsletter in the last few months because of all the new things that have been happening at SuperLiving.

SuperLiving has been changed to become more social media friendly. We have always embraced the idea of freely giving information about health, happiness and success on our web site. However, the web has now caught up with this idea and moved on a lot further, so we had a bit of catching up to do.

We are now producing our own videos, and have even formed our own web video production company called SuperVid which produces videos for other people as well. You can follow our SuperLiving YouTube Channel .

Our latest venture is the SuperLiving Blog , which enables us share with you a wider variety of information to help you get the most out of your life. Blogs are just quicker and easier to write than long articles, and we can share the wonderful information that we find on other great web sites.

The SuperLiving Newsletter will now share with you our blog posts and the other interesting things that are happening on our web site.

You can follow us on our SuperLiving Twitter and SuperLiving Facebook accounts if you prefer.

Welcome To The SuperLiving Blog

This SuperLiving blog is the latest addition to the SuperLiving web site, and we will use it to keep you up to date with interesting items about health, happiness and success from the world at large, and also from our own web site. It is another way that we can help you to live a SuperLife.

SuperLiving has changed a lot since it began ten years ago as MyPharmacy, an online pharmacy with a difference, because which also gave a lot of information about the products we sold and about health in general. A year and a half ago we decided to rebrand because we found the European Trade Mark for MyPharmacy was already registered, and so our business name and web site were not protected. At that time we were already developing SuperLiving as a separate web site, and so we put all our effort into redesigning this from scratch to include MyPharmacy and embrace all our other ideas. ...more

Yet Another Slimming Drug Banned

Today a review of the prescription-only slimming medicine Reductil has recommended it’s product license be revoked throughout Europe. Evidence suggests that there is an increased risk of non-fatal heart attacks and strokes with this medicine that outweighs the benefits of weight loss, which is modest and may not be sustained in the long term after stopping treatment.  It’s marketing authorisation has already been revoked in the UK.

Prescribers are advised not to issue any new prescriptions for Reductil and to review the treatment of patients taking the drug. Pharmacists are asked to cease dispensing the medicine. People who are currently taking Reductil are advised to make a routine appointment with their doctor to discuss alternative measures to lose weight. There are no health implications if people wish to stop treatment before seeing their doctor. ...more

The Happiness Project

One person worth knowing, who can improve your happiness, is Gretchen Rubin.Gretchen has just published a wonderful book ‘The Happiness Project’, which looks at how she took stock of her own life, which was in danger of becoming far less happy than she wanted. It all started on an ordinary sort of day, when Gretchen suddenly looked at someone else and thought ‘That’s me!” and didn’t really like what she saw. Not that it was bad, but that she wanted more. That moment began what was to become her own happiness project, where she used her resources as a writer to examine what happiness meant to her and how she could increase the happiness in her own life. She drew on all the resources she could find. Her book has just been published as a heart-warming yet immensely practical account of how to bring more happiness back into life.  Her insights are often deceptively simple, yet she has shown that the small and simple things, applied regularly, have a profound affect on happiness. ...more

Omega-3 Fatty Acids - The Healthy Fats

So Eating fish for the brain is spot-on, but it is important to know what is currently recommended. Grandmother was also right about the health benefits of Cod Liver Oil, but the newer Fish Oils are more concentrated. Then there is always Flax Seed Oil if you don’t like fishy ingredients. Low or unbalanced levels of omega-3 is linked with many of today’s chronic conditions of ill health so it is important to understand about it to be healthy. ...more

The Days Are Long But The Years Are Short

Here is a wonderful slide show about enjoying the magic moments of parenthood, by Gretchen Rubin at www.theyearsareshort.com

It is so easy to get caught up in the busy busy routine of day to day living as a parent that you miss the fact that these days are magic to your child.  Sharing them together and seeing them through your child’s eyes is so important, because, before you notice, these days and years are gone.

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Guest author, ME Therapist Vanessa Cecil, has written a wonderful article on the treatment options for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME). This is something the medical establishment has taken a long time to come to terms with, and has been passed off in the past as a mental condition or malingering. It is now officially recognised, but the treatment options vary widely in their  success. Vanessa is uniquely placed to understand ME , having suffered for 17 years before a full recovery, and has since researched and trained in ME Therapy. ...more

Nicotine Replacement Therapy Is Always Safer Than Smoking

Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT) increases your chances of giving up smoking, and it has come a long way since it was a Prescription Only product just a few years ago.  It then became Pharmacy Only, and could be sold under the supervision of a pharmacist, and then General Sales List which did not need the supervision. There were, however, still warnings in the product license about using NRT when there were other medical conditions, or during pregnancy, even though these were the people who may have need it most urgently. The drug regulating authority, the MHRA, have now issues a statement saying that there is now considered to be no circumstance where smoking is considered safer than using NRT, and the product licenses will be changed to reflect this as the products  come up for review, probably starting next year. ...more

Examine Your Mind's Inner Game

Nick Askew’s videos are always worth watching, but they shouldn’t be rushed. Take your time to enjoy them.

Tim Gallwey is the subject here. We can all appreciate the outer game we play in our lives. It’s what we do all day. Tim has examined the ‘inner game’ that we all have, but don’t always realise and explore. This video asks us to examine our inner game by asking ourselves a few questions and finding out what really motivates us.