Why I’m not a fan of slimming pills
Every year there is a new pill or potion that claims to do it all for you – starch blockers,...
March 28, 2009
Why food combining is bad for weight loss
Food-combining diets separate protein foods from carbohydrate foods. Nature doesn’t. Beans, lentils, nuts and seeds all contain both. And the...
March 28, 2009
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