Found 8 resource(s) in 'Looking at You', for May 2024.
Looking at You (all articles) for May 2024
Supporting people in trouble Lone working ‘is making millions of people ill’ Fewer babies coming Good dog! Don’t just sit there, whatever you do! 13th-20th May – Mental Health Awareness week Roads at ‘breaking point’ despite pothole repairs reaching an eight-year high ** Editor: David Pickup, a solicitor, considers the potential pitfalls of helping others…... (1720 words)Supporting people in trouble
Brothers and sisters, …Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfil the law of Christ. If anyone thinks they are something when they are not, they deceive themselves. (Galatians 6 1-3) I am always interfering, in situations where I should not. Sorry, but I do. It is probably because of the job I... (300 words)Lone working ‘is making millions of people ill’
The rise in lone working and the insecurity of increasing numbers of jobs are “making millions of us poorer and ill,” says a new report from Christian-based think tank, Theos. In ‘The Ties That Bind’ Theos looks at how better work can be created “by paying attention to the social dynamics – the love, even... (354 words)Fewer babies coming
For the first time since the Black Death killed about 50 million people in the mid-1300s, the world’s population is going to decline. According to experts, global fertility rates have hit an historic tipping point, and seem unlikely to recover. Millions of women are simply having less children. The global population currently stands at just... (178 words)Good dog!
Recent scientific research has found evidence that having a dog is good for you. “Science is finally catching up with what humans have intuitively known for thousands of years.” So says Professor Emeritus Aubrey Fine of Cal Poly University, a paediatric clinical psychologist. A recent study at Konkuk University in Korea found that participants’ alpha-band... (151 words)Don’t just sit there, whatever you do!
The average adult in the UK sits for nine hours a day. Office workers probably clock up even more time in a chair. But it is not good for you. Research has found that too much sitting increases your risk of weight gain, Type 2 diabetes, osteoporosis, depression, anxiety, stress, cancer, and even early death.... (212 words)13th-20th May – Mental Health Awareness week
As this month we observe Mental Health Awareness Week, it would be well worth especially praying for our young people. The Children’s Commissioner for England has recently warned that our nation’s children are still facing a mental health crisis, following the isolation and loneliness of the pandemic. And now, Dame Rachel de Souza warns that... (218 words)Roads at ‘breaking point’ despite pothole repairs reaching an eight-year high
Have you hit a pothole and damaged your car yet? If not, it is probably only a matter of time. Despite TWO MILLION potholes being filled over the past year (the highest number since 2015) the Asphalt Industry Alliance (AIA) is now warning that our roads are crumbling to ‘breaking point’. According to the AIA’s... (182 words)
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