Can coffee reverse Alzheimers?
This is the headline that newspapers and the BBC ran today based on a study giving mice high dose caffeine...
July 6, 2009
Xylitol prevents tooth decay
Xylitol kills tooth rotting bacteria, preventing cavities, shows definitive study in the Archives of Oral Biology.
July 6, 2009
‘Eco-Atkins’ diet cuts cholesterol and weight
There’s a quandary in the diet world. Evidence shows that a low-carb, high protein diet, aka Atkins, does work for...
June 8, 2009
Diabetes in under 5’s set to double
A study out today in the Lancet medical journal predicts a ‘doubling of new cases of type 1 diabetes in...
May 28, 2009
Multivitamin users are younger, says new study
A survey of multivitamin users and non-users, measuring their biological age, has found that multivitamin users are younger. This is...
May 27, 2009
Alli for weight loss? Side effects outweigh benefits
Next week an old drug under a new name, Alli, is being launched for over the counter sale. Previously on...
April 18, 2009
Vitamins relieve asthma
Today’s study showing a strong association between lack of vitamin C and A and asthma is consistent with an emerging...
April 16, 2009
Migraines, methylation & B vitamins
One in ten people suffer from migraines, and many more from headaches. Your chances of suffering are higher if you...
April 6, 2009
Start your health revolution today
April is National Nutrition Month and we are helping to make the nation 100% healthy by going on the road...
April 1, 2009
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
