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A recent WDDTY e-news bulletin reported on research into the potential benefits of tangerines and the possibility that they will be marketed as a new power fruit. It reminded us that the first two plantings in our then rather bare and embryonic garden...
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Pity the poor general practitioner. He doesn’t have the tools for the heroic gesture, unlike his counterpart in emergency medicine who saves lives, patches people up and generally performs miracles on a daily basis. The general practitioner deals...
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Before the discoveries of Copernicus and Galileo, the Sun orbited the Earth. It didn’t, of course, but everyone accepted that it did because the popes and the Roman Catholic Church told them so. Medicine operates in a similar fashion. Its governing...
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I’m old enough to remember a time when the pharmaceutical industry was concerned about social responsibility. During the 1970s and early 80s, middle managers and executives were attending regular workshops on the subject. While market domination...
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Philosophy is the art of asking the difficult question, and it is the engine room of most of the sciences. Physicists, astrophysicists and biologists, for instance, are driven by the quest to understand the complexity of life and how it began. Medicine,...
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We are fat and getting fatter by the day.Several years ago, Johns Hopkins University did a study showing that, if obesity trends continue, in four years, an astonishing three-quarters of all Americans will be overweight. In Britain, according to an Oxford...
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Twice in previous blogs we have referred to the plant Stevia rebaudiana . It is among the sweetest plants in the world and is widely used in some countries as a substitute for sugar, honey and artificial sweeteners in both home cooking and manufactured...
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The biggest headache for any drug-company executive is the placebo, or ‘sugar pill’, used in controlled trials to show that a drug in question works. Patients are divided into two groups, one of which is given the active drug, while the other...
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Nearly a year ago, Hollywood was shocked when actress Brittany Murphy, just 32, died from pneumonia, which she contracted after taking over-the-counter drugs. Within five months, her doting husband, British screenwriter Simon Monjack, aged 40, was also...
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I have just finished hand-harvesting our olives and those of our friends - some 800 kilos in all were gathered up. It was four long days of satisfying exercise on sunny wintery days for four 60- and 70-year-olds. There were no motorized tree shakers to...
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By the early years of the 20 th century, mass production processes were being refined. Soon, factories would produce thousands upon thousands of items inexpensively – from bottle tops, cola drinks, processed foods, to bicycles and motor cars. Suddenly,...
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Our dog Ollie, as a small, tricolored Cavalier King Charles spaniel, was bred by royal decree and born with a peculiar sense of regal entitlement and a permanent look of disdain. He belongs in a Peanuts cartoon—the curmudgeonly dog whose thought...
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This month we just have to follow up Bryan Hubbard’s blog ‘What is natural’. In recent years we have included a section in our talks around Spain about the absence of a medicine cupboard in our house. Instead, we have a good selection...
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All of us at WDDTY are shaken to the core by the recent disclosures that most studies in the medical literature are marketing dressed up as research. For as many as 90,000 published drug trials, a drug company hired a PR firm—a ‘medical education...
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I was recently asked by a health symposium to write something along the theme of 'What is natural?' Here is my paper: What is Natural? By their fruits shall you know them . The simple dictionary definition suggests that a natural thing is from...
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Dr Bruce Moseley, an orthopaedic specialist at Methodist Hospital in Houston, TX, was convinced of the powerful effect of the human mind on healing. He recruited 180 patients with severe knee osteoarthritis and divided them into three groups, two of which...
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Just occasionally, I come across a doctor willing to break the conspiracy of silence on the damage caused by their tools. My hero of the hour is American psychiatrist Grace E. Jackson, who is utterly and refreshingly horrified by psychiatric and most...
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Each issue of What Doctors Don’t Tell You reminds us of the dangers of pharmaceuticals, which are invariably prescribed simply because we are growing older rather than for a specific condition. It also saddens us because we know that, in the main,...
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In 2002, WDDTY learned of plans within the European Union to radically restrict natural medicine across all member countries, starting with laws to create a very low ceiling of ‘safe upper limits’ in vitamins. Although the laws were ostensibly...
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A recent WDDTY weekly e-news bulletin included two interesting articles regarding the heath benefits of broccoli and carrots. The first reported some research findings that fresh broccoli could help treat cancer patients and the second indicating that...
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In these austere times, President Obama’s Congress and the fledgling UK coalition government are casting around furiously for ways to trim their bloated deficits. Yet, in the midst of all this slashing and burning, healthcare is the area that clearly...
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It’s reassuring to think that there are big organizations out there so wedded to our best interests that they are beyond reproach, impossible to buy or sell. The premiere organization with this kind of impeccable reputation the world over is the...
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Early in my career, I worked in the editorial department of a newspaper syndicate in New York, editing a variety of columnists, one of whom was the renegade medical columnist Dr Robert Mendelsohn. Bob introduced me to the dangers of modern medicine. In...
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Couch potatoes rejoice! As of today, you don't have to eat those five portions of fruit and vegetables every day in order to ward off cancer. Researchers have discovered that the advice of every government has, all along, been wrong. The beneficial...
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The US and UK governments and the press are exulting in the recent highly public hanging of Dr Andrew Wakefield, found guilty of misconduct by the British General Medical Council (GMC). Wakefield, you may recall, is the British gastroenterologist who...
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