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First of all, let’s make sure we get our vitamin D this summer – by getting sun on our skin without sunscreen! Just make sure you don’t burn. Any little bit of sunshine will help, and your body will store the vitamin D it makes in the...
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One of my favourite philosophers used to be that arch pessimist Arthur Schopenhauer. Put it down to a troubled adolescence. Although he said many significant things, everyone today seems to quote this one saying of his: “All truth passes through...
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Lorenzo died a month ago, just one day after his 30 th birthday. Doctors had told his parents he would die at the age of 8 from a rare disease called ALD (adrenoleukodystrophy). It was their refusal to accept this prognosis that led them on a ceaseless...
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Here are some dietary pointers to help you improve the health of your teeth and gums. These are based on the research work of Melvin Page, Weston Price and Francis Pottenger which, in turn, has been the basis of many of today’s dietary regimes....
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You are Edzard Ernst, esteemed professor of complementary medicine at the University of Exeter, and I claim my £10,000. Please wire my payment to: Bryan Hubbard@Dunworkin. As you may have heard, Edzard has done a Randi, and has announced a £10,000...
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Tony Edwards' Special Report in the June edition of WDDTY reveals that traces of pharmaceutical drugs are likely to be present in every glass of tap water you drink. Here are 4 possible ways of cleaning up your water and avoiding these health risks....
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One of the first rules of political power is to create a bogey-man (BM). As we all fear the BM, we're relieved when our political leaders are prepared to stand up to said BM, even if it means removing our civil liberties. After all, it's for our...
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As the June 2008 edition of WDDTY reports, sunscreens are not as safe as you might think. Here are five ways of protecting yourself against the sun without exposing your body to contaminating chemicals. Avoid prolonged exposure, especially between 11...
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Instead of the usual rant, this week I want to make an appeal. It’s an appeal for reason, for true science without commercial restraints, and for funding to carry out a simple, and inexpensive, experiment that may have enormous positive implications...
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One fundamental difference between alternative and conventional medicine is the way each treats the patient. To the alternative practitioner, every patient is different, and presents a unique array of symptoms; to the conventional doctor, the patient’s...
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Last week I was in Chicago, where I’d started at university, and what impressed me most about the place was not the sheer size of Lake Michigan, the flatness of the Great Plains or even the deep-dish pizza. What most hit me in the face was drugs....
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How much do industry groups and their hired ‘experts’ hide from us the carcinogenic effects of their products and services? We know the way the tobacco industry twisted and turned for years before finally having to admit that cigarettes cause...
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There are allergies, and there are sensitivities. Allergists insist that an allergy can only be diagnosed by specific tests, and that people who say they’re “allergic to” some food or other environmental element are often not technically...
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Those who cling to the belief that medicine is more a science than a commercial enterprise might consider the story of a group of drugs known as erythropoiesis-stimulating agents (ESAs) and their approval process. ESAs are routinely given to cancer patients...
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Somebody dies suddenly from a heart attack. “Ah, well,” says a close friend, “I’m not surprised, really. He was always stressed.” Stress, it seems, is the great killer of our times, and medical researchers are confirming...
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My father was fond of the expression 'A fate worse than death'. I think it was something to do with the way we Brits would have been treated had the Nazi hordes invaded in the Second World War. I was wondering if similar thoughts have been going...
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You can prove the darnedest things with science. You can demonstrate that dangerous drugs are safe; you can even establish that vitamins and nutritional supplements can shorten your life, a sleight of hand that was performed this week. And the great thing...
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Is anybody noticing a pattern here? In 1977, children started receiving a one-dose mumps vaccine. Initially, rates of mumps fell dramatically, and health officials were congratulating themselves that they were on the road to eradicating another disease....
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It’s spring. This is traditionally a time for cleaning out the stagnation from the winter – cleaning the closets, shaking out the bedding, sweeping out the corners, discarding old junk. The same can be done with our bodies. Traditionally in...
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Do you think that the science that determines the safety of the drugs we take is the same as the science that determines the safety of aircraft technology? It's a question that lies at the heart of a fascinating paper from Herman Jeggels, a medically-qualified...
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It’s all unravelling badly for our health guardians who have been trying their upmost to convince us that the MMR (measles-mumps-rubella) vaccine is perfectly safe. In the past few weeks we’ve heard from the US that a court has awarded substantial...
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The latest views about children with autism is that it is a multifactorial problem, due to a combination of vaccination, heavy-metal exposure and even to microwaves, as generated by mobile phones. Typically, a child exhibits gut conditions, problems with...
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All of us rest easy in our beds at night in the belief that someone, somewhere, has our best interests at heart. That sense, that there are scientists sitting in lofty institutions who make decisions, however ultimately flawed, from a sense of right so...
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Are we poisoning our children to the extent that they can't function in the classroom? A new study into the abilities of children in the UK who are failing basic exams known as SATS has discovered that 55 per cent have an undetected learning problem...
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Around 25 per cent of all prescription drugs are given to patients 'off label' or for unlicensed use (see BMJ, 1998; 316: 343-5). This means that, despite the expensive safety trials that all drugs have to go through, one in four is given either...
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