Why I don’t recommend the HPV123 Gardasil ‘cervical cancer’ vaccine
You can’t turn a corner in London today without seeing ads scaring mothers to get their teenage daughters vaccinated...
Alternate day ‘IF’ fasting on BBC
Last month's Horizon TV programme on how to live longer, gain health and lose weight by eating less...
Cancer – screening risks.. vitamins help
A report out today concludes that, for every life breast cancer mammogram screening saves, three women have unnecessary surgery....
Drugs may double dementia risk
Benzodiazepine sleeping and anti-anxiety pills such as temazapam and diazepam may double dementia risk, according to research published in...
Food Hospital on Eczema and Arthritis
It’s good to see Channel 4’s food hospital back, this week on eczema and rheumatoid arthritis. It coincides with...
Large fizzy drinks banned in New York, will the UK follow suit?
Anyone in their right mind knows that it's sugar that's driving diabetes and other diseases, not a deficiency of...
Q&A Blog on heart disease and strokes
As a member of my Heart Health Club I welcome your questions on cholesterol, blood pressure, angina, preventing, reversing...
Omega 3s improve reading, behaviour and heart risk
A new study shows that giving children omega 3 supplements improves reading and behaviour. A 'meta-analysis' on increasing omega...
Indigestion? Beware PPI Drugs
Today’s Daily Mail warns of the dangers of drugs known as proton-pump inhibitors, usually ending in ‘...prazole’. Thirty six...
UK’s no.1 drug firm GSK fined $3billion
GSK (GlaxoSmithKline) has pleaded guilty to criminal charges relating to anti-depressant and diabetes drug frauds and agreed to pay...
Low GL diets boost metabolic rate
The conventional view is that you can’t change your basic metabolic rate. But this new study shows that low...
Sugar makes you fat, sad and stupid
The three part BBC series 'the men who made us fat' explains that it is sugar primarily (and...
