Folic acid and cancer
Last year I warned about the dangers of folic acid fortification and cancer. Today’s study in the Journal of...
Why low carb diets aren’t good for mood
A study published today in the Archives of Internal Medicine finds that low carb diets are as good as...
New statin dangers and what works better
Neither aspirin, nor statins have any substantial effect on reducing heart disease risk if you haven’t already had a...
Tired, sniffling, low? You need sunshine
What's the cause of winter ailments, colds and blues? A lack of vitamin S - sunshine. What's the cure?...
Diabetes disaster
Figures released today show that the number of people in the world with diabetes has risen from an estimated...
How to cut the stress of addiction
Many people prone to addiction have 'reward deficiency syndrome' making them more prone to stress. Recent research shows how...
B vitamins cut heart deaths by over 80%
A study published by the American Journal of Cardiology finds that cardiovascular patient with high homocysteine levels (above 15µmol/l)...
Depression – food is better than drugs
In case you didn’t know anti-depressant drugs work as ‘enhanced placebos’.
The best six natural painkillers
An estimated 35% of the population suffer from chronic pain - 28 million in the UK. NSAID painkillers (from...
Vaccines are dangerous
Almost 2,000 girls given the cervical cancer vaccine have suffered serious side-effects. One claims to have been paralysed, another...
Do statin dangers outweigh benefits?
New fears over an increasing list of side-effects has sparked the need for more research to investigate the dangers...
The dangers of painkillers
The average person takes 373 painkillers a year. Over 2,000 people in Britain die as a result and at...
