Let’s talk about alcohol
As we emerge from lockdown and with so many people looking to have a healthy start to the summer, I...
November 19, 2013
Diet for Diabetes on World Diabetes Day
Two years ago I wrote that we have 300 million people with diabetes worldwide. Now, according to the IDF, that...
November 14, 2013
Tinnitus
Many prescribed medications list it as a side effect, for example. It can also be triggered by loud noise -...
November 11, 2013
Reduce your stress with a simple technique
National Stress Awareness Day is focusing today on organizations reducing stress in the workplace, which is great but inevitably we’ll...
November 6, 2013
Coffee – good for cancer?
A report today, based on 16 studies, says that drinking three cups of coffee may reduce the risk of liver...
October 25, 2013
The Vitamin C Pee Myth
When you take high doses of vitamin C don’t you just excrete it? This is a question I get asked...
October 22, 2013
Do low fat diets make you fatter?
Some people say a calorie is a calorie, but more evidence is accumulating that conventional low fat, high carb diets...
October 16, 2013
Cold and Flu
Exposure to viruses is unavoidable, unless you live like a hermit. However, whether you succumb to a virus depends on...
October 15, 2013
Beware ‘mood stabiliser’ drugs
If you can double the number of people diagnosed as ‘bipolar’ (meaning sometimes up and sometimes down) and prescribe them...
October 12, 2013
Prevention doesn’t mean drugs
As 21st century diseases from cancer to diabetes cripple our economies, 'prevention' is on everybody's lips. But prevention, like medicine...
September 18, 2013
Millions awarded for autism vaccine damage
You won’t read about it in the British press but two children who developed autism and brain damage following vaccination...
September 9, 2013
Milk – no good for bones, bad for cancer
For years I’ve been saying that dairy products are not an essential food, nor part of our evolutionary design. Now,...
August 28, 2013
Weight loss; it’s all in your mind
While we most certainly have genetic predispositions, our brains can change in amazing ways, regardless of age. This is known...
August 28, 2013
Three common health myths
Health advice can be really confusing and some dogmas are just wrong.Today I am going to look at three common...
August 28, 2013
Eggs don’t increase heart disease – official!
It has eggsasperated me , and is eggsactly what I have been saying for decades because the research has always...
August 12, 2013
New diabetes drugs double cancer risk
Heralded as the ‘darlings of diabetes treatment’ a new class of diabetes drugs, called incretin mimetics, commonly known as GLP-1...
August 12, 2013
PM – Don’t trust GM
When UK Prime Minister David Cameron was quoted in the media saying ‘ I’d give the family GM food’ I...
July 10, 2013
Billion Dollar Scam in an article
I was recently passed an article entitled ‘Billion-Dollar Scam in a Bottle; Vitamins could be useless and shorten your life.’...
July 3, 2013
Hit a weight loss plateau?
Time and again people contact me to ask why their weight loss has stalled despite following various different diets. There...
June 25, 2013
Are you a hunter or a gatherer?
Muscle and brain cells have two modes of operation, much like a hybrid car. The default mode runs off glucose....
June 4, 2013
