All Stories Tagged With: "benefits"
Immunize Your Child or Lose Benefits, Parents Told
Starting July 1 of 2012, Australian parents will be stripped of family tax benefits if their child is not fully immunized. Once the immunization alterations take effect next year, families who refuse vaccinations will also be refusing up to $2,100 per child in benefits. It seems that this is just one attempt by the Australian government to force vaccinations on children before potentially making it a federal law.
Music Therapy May Help Cancer Patients
The soothing sound of music while in addition to working with a music therapist may help cancer patients not only with reducing anxiety levels in cancer patients, but providing another of other positive benefits.
7 Amazing Benefits of Exercise
Danish researchers took a group of sedentary, overweight men and women and over 18 months trained them to run a marathon. The findings were very telling. Of the men, there was an average weight loss of something like a few pounds but the women in the study averaged no change to their weight. Imagine running 26.2 miles (42km) and not losing anything? This is consistent with my own experience.
