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Medicine likes to trumpet its treatment of heart disease because it is possibly the only degenerative disease where the numbers of fatalities are falling. However, the self-congratulation is premature. Heart disease remains the number-one killer in the...
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Ever since doctors became little more than salesmen for the pharmaceutical industry, medicine has ceased to be a science, only occasionally is an art, and is almost always a commercial enterprise. Research into non-drug solutions was rarely undertaken,...
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In 1991, I visited my GP to ask for advice about a large lump on top of my neck. I was told that everyone in their fifties starts to get lumps like these, and there was nothing to worry about. I was then 54. Two year later, I asked the same GP to check...
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What Doctors Don't Tell You had its genesis in a swine flu epidemic—33 years ago. In 1976, at the start of my career as a young editor at the Chicago Tribune-New York News Syndicate, one of my columnists was Dr Robert Mendelsohn, who wrote The...
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More than 50 years before Darwin wrote On the Origin of Species, French zoologist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck wrote Les Recherches sur L’Organisation des Corps Vivants, the first book to set out a coherent and well-developed theory of evolution. Where...
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This is a personal milestone for me and my husband, publisher Bryan Hubbard, as it represents the entire trajectory — from infant to adult—of not only this publication, but also our family. I was pregnant with our firstborn, Caitlin, while...
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Herb plants have many benefits in the garden. Many are perennials that flower for long periods, they add perfume to the garden, are reasonably drought-resistant, and they expand over the years to usefully cover an area of not so good soil. They also add...
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Our cover story this month exposes the shocking revelation that high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS), a ubiquitous sweetener used in everything from cola to ‘healthy’ snacks, is heavily laced with mercury that has inadvertently been added during...
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I have a new book out (toot toot). It’s called “The Whole-Food Guide to Strong Bones.” It’s an update of a book I published 10 years ago, and it is MUCH better. Let me tell you a story from someone who read the old version. She...
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For us there’s nothing more gastronomic, healthier and economic for breakfast than a home-grown vitamin- and antioxidant-rich salad and an egg boiled, fried or as an omelette. Recently we gave a talk entitled ‘Living well from your garden’...
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One of the joys of gardening in Spain is that delicious fruits full of undiluted antioxidants, vitamins and minerals are at hand throughout the year for eating, harvesting for later in the year, drying for snacks or storing at the end of the season. Unfortunately...
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There is now no dispute: electromagnetic fields (EMFs) harm our health. WDDTY has assembled the latest evidence that electrical and magnetic fields may be behind cases of ongoing puzzling illnesses like Alzheimer’s , amyotrophic lateral sclerosis...
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When we first came to Spain we were delighted that there were not all the midges that prevented us from dining outside in our previous garden in Windsor, but there were the occasional mosquitoes hovering around. We resisted the overkill of installing...
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Eighteen months ago and amid enormous fanfare, pharmaceutical giant Merck announced that it had produced the first vaccine against cancer. Gardasil would fight against the human papillomavirus that caused cervical cancer and the target would be *** girls,...
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On the basis of our fruit and vegetable books, we were invited to join 8000 other participants from 150 countries at the third Slow Food international Terra Madre conference in Turin. For four days a diverse mix of food communities, small scale farmers...
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Growing fresh healthy crops full of vitamins and minerals does not require a large vegetable plot. Indeed even with a large vegetable plot we still grow things in the kitchen in areas of less than one or two sheets of A4 paper to demonstrate what is possible...
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Does anyone remember the ‘controlled experiment’, decades ago, that I can just vaguely recall, in which a high quality perfume was masquerading as two competing fragrances (although they were, of course, the identical product): one at a high...
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Vaccination rates are dropping. I believe that is a good thing. Living has its risks (and its benefits, of course). We are always making choices. In this case, it’s the risk of getting measles vs. the risk of getting autism or other neurological...
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In today’s fast-paced society, more and more people are turning to meditation to help deal with the stresses and strains of everyday life. But meditation is more than just a way to switch off and relax. As the latest research shows, this age-old...
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Labels on bottles of vitamin pills frequently include the note 'Not intended as a substitute for a balanced diet'. Heath authorities worldwide now recommend that we eat at least five portions of fruit and vegetables a day for their vitamin and...
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Nobody has anything nice to say about NICE - so, being a contrarian, I will! As you may know, NICE (National Institute for Clinical Excellence) determines the drugs that should be made available on the National Health Service based upon their effectiveness...
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One of the central messages of our site is that you have to take responsibility for your own health. There's no such thing as the free lunch when it comes to your health (and, if you happen to be a 'free lunch' believer, you probably also...
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Let's get down to the real nitty-gritty of what medicine is all about - money. As stock watchers amongst you may know, Big Pharma is being marked down by City (and Wall Street) slickers, who are putting up 'Sell' notes wherever they are seeing...
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Vitamin D, essential for human health, is more a hormone than a vitamin, and you can indeed get it for free – as it is secreted by the body under the influence of sunlight. This activity involves the skin, the liver, and the kidneys, and about 36...
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The struggle between the Sons of the Enlightenment and medical quackery - as they view any therapy that doesn't involve powerful pharmaceuticals - is getting more bitter by the day. In the past week, the University of Central Lancashire has closed...
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