When a baby is born, it’s a sweet little being, sleeping and dreaming through most of the day. Alas, none of us remember what the world looked like to us in our first years. Wouldn’t it be amazing to find out what was going on in our minds when we were little babies? Fei Z et al (2020) Clinical course and risk factors for mortality of adult inpatients with COVID-19 in Wuhan, China: a retrospective cohort study. Lancet (London, England) 395(10229):1054–62 [cited 14 Jun 2020]. Available from https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32171076/?from_single_result=Lancet+Lond... It is our mission to help coaches, clinicians, and health care practitioners across the globe to transform healthcare with Functional Nutrition.

Modern research into child psychology and neuroscience can help us in this endeavor. As you'll see in these blinks, children's minds and their perception of the world are formed through an intricate interplay between nature and nurture, beginning even in the womb. So what does the world look like through the eyes of a toddler? For highlights from the latest issue, our archive and the blog, as well as news, events and exclusive promotions. It’s how you gain confidence that you can indeed help your clients step into their healing potential.Even as fetuses, babies can process information about their mother’s smell. This becomes crucial for their sense of orientation – babies use it to work out where their mothers’ arms are, as their body scent is most present under the armpits. An infant’s sense of smell also allows for self-soothing, which unwashed newborns practice by raising their hands to their mouths, comforting themselves with their own smell. Daniel Paul Schreber is the least known of Dillon’s subjects, and we may fairly regard him as the one plunged deepest into the pit of hypochondriac delusion, since it was definitely not true that 240 Benedictine monks were living in his skull. Freud wrote him up in 1911, but his own account was given a few years earlier in Memoirs of My Nervous Illness. Born in Leipzig in 1842, Schreber became an eminent jurist and a heroic sufferer. He was subject, he felt, to assaults on his body which he called ‘miracles’, though they were of a malign type. Dillon describes an array of ‘extraordinary amputations, evacuations and disappearances from within the unguarded precincts of his body’. He was bombarded by rays. Sometimes his stomach vanished and his food went straight down to his legs. He had survived so much he feared he might be immortal. He was also turning into a woman, who would be impregnated by God and found a new race (he was the sole survivor of the old one, since all the people walking about in the world were dead already). From time to time Schreber was able to corral his delusions and live among the well. But after five years during which his symptoms remitted he became subject to the appalling conviction that his body was dead and rotting, while his head was still alive. Over the weekend, violent incidents were reported in Jerusalem and the West Bank, including fights between Israeli settlers and Palestinians. Why is this happening now?

Collocations are words that are often used together and are brilliant at providing natural sounding language for your speech and writing. This week we are looking at two words which may be confused by learners of English: scarce and scarcely. Improve your English with Collins. Today, there’s no shortage of guidebooks filled with advice on what to do during pregnancy. Of course, all children and mothers are different, but these discussions are important. After all, pregnancy and birth are crucial stages in human development.This comes as hope for a resolution for Palestinians living under occupation for more than half a century is at possibly the lowest point it has ever been, especially after the former US president Donald Trump encouraged Israel’s government to solidify its grip on the Palestinian territories. Newly released polling shows that support for the moribund “peace process” has reached an all-time low. I remember when I first started practicing as a functional nutritionist. I’d get caught up in the flurry of my clients’ symptoms, trying to “fix them” or make them go away.

I once knew a man, a Jamaican, who when he first came to England always answered truthfully when asked ‘How are you?’ A bit sniffly, he might reply; or he would describe his indigestion, or the twinge in his left knee. One day a woman lost patience: ‘Look,’ she snapped, ‘there’s something you must understand; in England, the answer to “How are you?” is “I’m fine, how are you?”’ So he’d been told, and he didn’t need telling twice: for all the English care, you can die and stiffen on the street. When a complex client arrives at your door (like my husband’s cancer diagnosis or the myriad digestive, autoimmune and hormonal issues we see in our clinic), having the insight to pause, to ponder what’s going on in there, and to ask a few critical questions, is key to making sense of it all. There are many diverse influences on the way that English is used across the world today. We look at some of the ways in which the language is changing. Read our series of blogs to find out more. Varlas VN, Borș RG, Plotogea M, Iordache M, Mehedințu C, Cîrstoiu MM. Varlas VN, et al. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2023 Jan 20;20(3):1949. doi: 10.3390/ijerph20031949. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2023. PMID: 36767320 Free PMC article. Review. Wright FL, Vogler TO, Moore EE, Moore HB, Wohlauer MV, Urban S, Nydam TL, Moore PK, McIntyre RC Jr. Wright FL, et al. J Am Coll Surg. 2020 Aug;231(2):193-203.e1. doi: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2020.05.007. Epub 2020 May 15. J Am Coll Surg. 2020. PMID: 32422349 Free PMC article.Wright FL et al (2020) Fibrinolysis shutdown correlates to thromboembolic events in severe COVID-19 infection. J Am Coll Surg [cited 14 Jun 2020]. Available from: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32422349/ Have you ever had a cold and not been able to taste what you knew was a delicious meal? It can be extremely frustrating! Taste and smell are vital sensory functions for humans in general, and this begins in babies from their time in the womb. Freud located Schreber’s illness in his denial that he was sexually attracted to the asylum director who was the arbiter of his fate. Perhaps Schreber was frightened of his doctor, and fantasised about sex as a means to placate him? Many patients, Alice James among them, sense from time to time a strong wave of hostility from their carers. Alice felt, Dillon says, ‘exposed, degraded and reduced by the medical gaze’. The hostility of doctors and nurses to patients (who provoke in them fear and sensations of powerlessness) is one of the great taboo subjects, but it is no secret to the assiduous and dedicated patient. A doctor wields immense power; his cures can kill more efficiently than the disease itself; he can also deal out existential death. Andy Warhol was particularly suspicious of doctors, who he believed had given his mother an unnecessary colostomy, thus creating a shameful confusion between the outer and inner worlds, between what can be looked at and what ought to be concealed. Temperament in children is often genetically determined, but is also shaped by childhood experiences.

Our new online dictionaries for schools provide a safe and appropriate environment for children. And best of all it's ad free, so sign up now and start using at home or in the classroom. Experiences of motion satisfy a baby’s need for stimulation. They can handle motion well too, because they’re born with a well-developed sense of balance. This, in turn, allows babies to observe their environment from a very young age, as their brains are able to make sense of visual changes when they move their heads.This week we are looking at two words which may be confused by learners of English: produce and product. Improve your English with Collins. What’s going on in there is the core principle around which I created one of the most successful nutrition practices in the world. Much of what we love in other people has to do with their charming personalities and little quirks. What parent wouldn’t want their child to grow up into a loveable person? Of course, while some things are determined genetically, other aspects of a human’s character can be shaped by childhood experiences.