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Carbs – how low do you have to go for weight loss and health gain?

Anyone who reads the medical journals knows that study after study are slaughtering the idea that low-fat, low calorie diets...

March 23, 2009

How multivitamins may extend life

A study conducted by researchers at the National Institutes of Health has discovered a mechanism with could explain how use...

March 21, 2009

Why a low GL diet makes you feel full

Many people have told me that following my low GL diet has been easy because they just feel full, losing...

March 18, 2009

What lowers cholesterol?

If you have or have had high cholesterol, what has or hasn’t helped to lower it?

March 12, 2009

The age of stupid

On March 15th an immensely powerful and important film, The Age of Stupid, is being launched in Britain. It deals...

March 12, 2009

Coffee and croissant – the enemies of weight loss

Britain’s most popular pick-me-up, a coffee and a croissant, may be fuelling an epidemic of weight gain and diabetes, according...

March 9, 2009

The silent addiction – over the counter pain killers

Today's Daily Mail published an article on the UK's over the counter pill addicts - a problem that the General...

March 6, 2009

Why resistant weight loss may be due to hidden allergies

Time and time again I meet people who tell me that their excess weight vanished after discovering, and eliminating, their...

March 5, 2009

Don’t sneeze at vitamin D

Two years ago I predicted that vitamin D deficiency in the winter was an important contributory factor in increased colds....

March 1, 2009

Diabetes is depressing

The fact that diabetes is reaching epidemic proportions, rising by 63% in a decade, is completely predictable. Next year we’ll...

February 26, 2009

Why I had my mercury fillings removed

Last week’s Tonight report on ITV on the dangers of mercury fillings has reopened this can of worms. Common dental...

February 23, 2009

Cinnamon may help weight loss

Early studies reported big reductions in blood sugar with 3 grams of cinnamon a day (roughly a teaspoon). But other...

February 21, 2009

Fat doesn’t make you fat

Most people still believe the fat you eat turns into fat in your body. It isn’t just fat that makes...

February 19, 2009

Why debt and recession is bad for your health

If you are suffering as a result of recession, and under the immense stress of real or pending debt; if...

February 14, 2009

Why Taking an RDA Multivitamin Won’t Save Your Life

A recent study analysed the risk, over an average of eight years, of developing, or dying from cancer or heart...

February 10, 2009

Lose weight before you get pregnant – new study recommends

Obese women in their first pregnancy have a much greater risk of giving birth to an underweight baby, having pre-eclampsia,...

February 9, 2009

Drug Ads Bias Medical Journals Against Vitamins

Pharmaceutical money buys journal influence, says new study. “In major medical journals, more pharmaceutical advertising is associated with publishing fewer...

February 8, 2009

Homocysteine predicts heart disease risk better than cholesterol, blood pressure or smoking

A study published this month in the British Medical Journal (Wouter de Ruijter et al, British Medical Journal, 9th January,...

February 4, 2009

Diet is key to stopping smoking

‘I was amazed to find myself feverishly making notes about the supplements I should be taking…Holford’s advice about rebalancing the...

January 30, 2009

MMR Vaccination Case Begins Again

Last week the General Medical Council’s case against Dr Andrew Wakefield, Professor Simon Murch and Professor Walker-Smith, the doctors who...

January 29, 2009