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Perhaps the most underappreciated health scandal in modern times is the fact that, every day, we are all subjected to some 80,000 drugs—virtually all of which have not undergone a single regulatory test before their release on the market. By ‘drugs’,...
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One thing is sure in this world: only you can establish total wellness and health. Unless you want it, and are sufficiently motivated to gain it and keep it, no amount of outside support will succeed. Taking responsibility for your own health should be...
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When we become ill, most of us lay the blame at the feet of our ancestors: my heart problem is like dad’s, who had a dicky ticker; I’m likely to get breast cancer because it’s what my grandmother died of. We look upon ourselves in a...
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Be careful, it’s coming your way! The boogey flu will get you! We’re having a pandemic! Everyone is in danger! I say, bah humbug. All this advance notice is very suspicious to me. It seems to me that these are scare tactics so that people...
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We are a society gripped by constant pain of one sort or another—and life appears to be getting more painful by the year. In the UK alone, according to Liam Donaldson, the UK’s principle medical advisor, at least a third of all households—representing...
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Recently a Michelin-starred restaurant, that uses some of our ecological vegetables, presented us with a copy of a recipe book called ‘Menus for Cardiovascular Health’. It was published jointly by the Californian Walnut Association and Spanish...
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A few months ago, thinking ahead to bathing-suit weather, I decided, like most women on the planet, to lose five pounds. Intrigued by an ad in the newspaper that promised a diet combining low-carb with natural fat-burning foods, I sent away for the details...
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Although our garden is packed with plants, we can always find room for special things that look attractive and have benefits for our health. Friends in the Leida Aragon branch of Terra Madre in Spain had set up an association called Dulce Revolucion –...
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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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