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Herbal Medicine under serious threat...

nfpellegrini — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 09:09:33 GMT

Dear WDDTY,

For the other side of the story regarding the statutory regulation (SR) of herbalists in the UK please visit http://theherbarium.wordpress.com/ (read any of the articles under 'The Law & Herbal Medicine')

SR of herbalists would endanger the continued existence of herbal medicine in the UK by giving COMPLETE control of practitioners to government bureaucrats at the Health Professions Council (HPC) & COMPLETE control of herbal medicines to the MHRA - do you think these people have the best interests of herbalists and their patients at heart?

Neil.

Acupuncture hope for PCOS sufferers - 9 September 2009

ajmcglynn — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 19:03:27 GMT

Some other information about PCOS: Dr. Gabe Mirkin ( www.drmirkin.com ) reported that high insulin levels induce the problem and going on a low refined carbohydrate diet, and, possibly taking some diabetes medication, may relieve it.

Jerry

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HRT: The danger drug that wasn’t, then was again (E-news broadcast 20 April 2007 No.352)

WDDTY — Wed, 09 May 2007 14:07:49 GMT

A week can be a terribly long time in medicine. Take, for example, the arguments over the safety of hormone replacement therapy (HRT), designed to ease women through the menopause.

Researchers finally cottoned on in 2002 – and years after the fact – that HRT was dangerous, and that its risks outweighed any benefits.

These risks were most famously highlighted in the Women’s Health Initiative Study, which discovered that HRT increased the likelihood of heart problems by 29 per cent, stroke by 41 per cent, and *** cancer by 26 per cent. The researchers were so alarmed by their findings that they stopped the study early.
As a result, HRT drug sales plummeted, and companies such as Pfizer and Wyeth, which both manufacture leading HRT brands, suffered. Sales of Wyeth’s Premarin family of HRT drugs fell sharply from around $1.25 billion in 2003 to $880 million a year later.

Now, for whatever reason, the same research team recently decided to take a fresh look at its own data – and decided that HRT is good for you. Yes, they’d got it wrong, silly them. Actually, HRT decreases the risk of heart disease by 24 per cent, and it didn’t increase the risk of stroke at all.

HRT advocates like Dr John Stevenson were incensed. He said the original findings meant that women were deprived of a great drug, and so went on to suffer heart attacks and other illnesses that “they didn’t deserve”. Obviously, those who did deserve one got what was coming.

So, cause for much celebrating in the boardrooms of Pfizer and Wyeth – well, for a week anyway.
Then, to spoil the party, a new study, rush released by The Lancet on the web, has found that HRT is bad for you after all, just as the original Women’s Health Study had found. The Million Women Study has discovered that the drug causes ovarian cancer, and that at least a thousand women in the UK alone have died from the disease as a direct result of using the therapy.

Overall, HRT increases the risk of ovarian cancer by 20 per cent, the researchers found, and a woman who takes HRT has a 63 per cent greater risk of developing either ovarian, *** or endometrial cancer.
This tallies with the earlier finding that HRT has been directly responsible for the deaths of 30,000 women in the UK, and around 200,000 in the USA, since the early 1990s.

(Sources: Journal of the American Medical Association, 2007; 297: 1465-77 (revised Women’s Health study); The Lancet, 19 April 2007, published online (Million Women study)).

hypothyroidism

Gabriella Kadar — Sat, 02 May 2009 21:47:13 GMT

I've got hypothyroidism. I have tryed many kind of alternativ remedies including homeopathic ones. The homeopathic medicines seemed to work for a while, but at the end the result is the same. The doctor wants to increase the L-thyroxin 50 pill to 75. Last time she said i have to take the L-thyroxin 100! I always reject it thinking if i am taking stronger dosis, my thyroid will not produce hormones at all. At the moment i am taking 1 and 1/4 pill from the L-thyroxin 50. The point is, i want to get over it, not just hold this problem on a certain level. Now i ordered the MAESTRO from Resorces For Life. My question is: What else shall i take for this problem to get it over? Is it possible to get rid of hypothyroidism if i have it for over 4 years? I'm still hoping it is.

Gabby

e-news ADHD drugs work for only the first few months 01 April 2009

fddicicco — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 13:41:45 GMT

I decide to take the time to write my last comment on this.. I am a little ashamed that I even have to, considering this site should be a bit more truthful and spend less effort appeasing the main stream diagnosis once it becomes a mainstream "disease".. ADHD is a manufactured issue to sell drugs to our brightest humans.. These kids have enormous IQ's and just need to be taught to deal with the walking dead (normal people) so they don't get so hyper and bored.. Once they realize this, it's really quite a breeze to put the rest together..

ADHD drugs do work as they are designed to!!.. They manipulate your mind and and wreck havoc on many areas of your body that will require much attention down the road (heart disease, teeth rot due to dry mouth and many others that should be common sense considering this is one of the most powerful and addictive substance on the planet).. Not to mention the eventual addiction that will destroy many millions of lives (but not to worry parents, they won't be your problem no more. they are adults now. You did your job and got them hooked instead of being a "real" guardian)

I degrees as there are so many issues with this whole ADHD thing and the "powerful addictive life ruining drugs".

So they do work as designed.. the problem is this is not a disease.. it is a manufactured scam by the drug companies and pushed by the mainstream media along with schools and such to make money, dumb down our brightest and make the kids more conforming.. Nothing else..

Oh and by the way parents, be sure to tell your children that this so they can enjoy it's more powerful benefits more quickly.. This crap is made of Methylphenidate, DEXTROAMPHETAMINE, AMPHETAMINE (this is an excerpt from Wikipedia.. Go there and read between the lines

It is generally accepted that methylphenidate is the closest pharmaceutical equivalent to cocaine^{[citation needed]}, and studies have shown that the two drugs are nearly indistinguishable when administered intravenously to cocaine addicts.^[45]. However, cocaine has a slightly higher affinity for the dopamine receptor in comparison to methylphenidate, which is thought to be the mechanism of the euphoria associated with the relatively short-lived cocaine high.^[46]

In the United States, methylphenidate is classified as a Schedule II controlled substance, the designation used for substances that have a recognized medical value but present a high likelihood for abuse because of their addictive potential. Internationally, methylphenidate is a Schedule II drug under the Convention on Psychotropic Substances.^[47]

It has been further suggested (I am looking for the source now as this is the biggy) This *** is crystal methane with an addiction rate of more than anything man has ever created.. More than heroin, cocaine, Quaaludes.. you name it.. This *** WILL ruin all whom use it for any period of time..

Once your kids figure how to crush these pills in there school bathrooms, lookout!! sex more drugs and jail or death.. It really needs to be said in the language I have used here..

I am speaking from an IQ of 182 and a 5 years on this crap.. I thought cocaine was horrific.. that was at least expensive.. this crap is cheap from your doctors and boy it WILL RUIN YOUR CHILD.. PERIOD.. be a parent and don't ruin your Childs life regardless of how they may feel now. I realize the doctors, schools and all those whom have told you otherwise.. This stuff is the most powerful drug know.. and and by the way, this is the exact same stuff put in this nice packages tat are now behind the drug counter because so many meth addicts were using in there meth labs..

I will gladly answer any specifics. I just needed to hit this where it needs to be hit.. WDDTY should be taking more of my stance than the lagidasle attitude they are starting to take. Shame on them.

Sound Therapy

cneanon — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 13:13:26 GMT

The information that has recently been sent out about the 'ancient' therapy using sound is somewhat misleading. Sound therapy is being developed in the UK through organisations such as the British Academy of Sound Therapy run by Lyz Cooper which offers professional accredited courses. Tim Wheater also runs a Sound Academy. For further information on this powerful form of healing you can contact the Institute of complimentary Medicine which has a list of registered practitioners.

Multiple sclerosis: Food ingredient may be cause of autoimmune disease

ajmcglynn — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 19:09:44 GMT

Fair enough.

In addition, a Harvard study shows that immunization for Hepatitis B is associated with a tripling of the risk of MS, according to Dr. Jonathan Wright.

Antibiotics: Link to cerebral palsy in children

ajmcglynn — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 08:29:40 GMT

The article reports a study showing that precautionary use of antibiotics in pregnant women is associated with increased probability of cerebral palsy or other "functional impairment."

Several thoughts occur:

1) Was there any advantage to the precautionary use of the drugs? Did the antibiotics have the desired effect overall--a greater probability of delivery of a healthy baby? The article mentions statistics of live babies. Did the antibiotics result in a greater probability of delivery of healthy babies?

2) The article stated: "...the researchers were able to take a health assessment of 3,196 children. Of these, 658 children (w)hose mothers had been given an antibiotic suffered some functional impairment compared with 574 children whose mothers were in the placebo group."

Wow, of about 3,200 babies, well over 1,200 had some "functional impairment". Maybe I've led a sheltered life but I expected a lower fraction of problems from normal childbirth and delivery. I wonder whether there was something unusual about this population.

Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Depression

adelaide — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:53:43 GMT

I think the cart is being put before the horse. By the time a person is correctly diagnosed with such a disease then probably they have suffered not only with the debilitating symptoms for several years but also with misdiagnosis and mistreatment. This would make anyone depressed. The danger by asserting that depression is a "cause" of Inflammatory Bowel Disease is that anti-depressives which are already grossly over prescribed will be given in order to allay the onset of bowel disease. This is not the way to tackle the illness and in fact illogical and can lead to greater suffering. Treatment gets delayed and additionally people may suffer from the side effects of the anti-depressives. I think the data, as is the case in many studies about illness, is being misread or manipulated. There are a limited set of questions which are anwered in presribed ways ( multiple choice) so the data can be calculated according to set standards that have to do with the formulation of statistics and their interpretation. It is far more logical that people suffer from depression because of the debilitating bowel symptoms which can cause job loss, family breakdown and poverty.

Cancer: - Family doctors just don't see it

adelaide — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 23:22:40 GMT

It is astonishing that family doctors continue to regard cancer as "rare" and the "least lightly explanation" for a set of symptoms that are actually indicative of the disease. Cancer is not rare and is unfortunately an all too common explanation for worrying symptoms.

I have discussed my case on this forum before but I went to my GP with quite typical symptoms of bowel cancer and the GP was not only argumentative but derisive towards me. She took out a form with a few boxes to tick for an emergency referral to a nationally renouned bowel cancer hospital which happens to be very close to where I live and said "see, I can't tick any of the boxes." And then she said " you will be taking the place of someone who really does have cancer."

Looking back it was quite shocking how dismissive she was. So glad that I am who I am. A very assertive, skeptic regarding most diagnoses made without the benefit of any investitations or a thorough physical exam. So I had to go privately and within a week a malignant tumour in my sigmoid colon was discovered which had to be partially cut out during the colonoscopy because it was already almost completely blocking the bowel. A very dangerous situation. I was sure that I had a heriditary condition and asked to be tested for it. Again I was scoffed at, by the surgeon and by the oncologist he referred me to. But once again after pressurising for a test I found out I did have a genetic disorder and my daughter has a 50 per cent of having it, as do my brothers and their children.

GPs need to realise that most patients are astute and informed about their bodies. They notice changes that are significant and are informed enough to suspect that the changes could be pathological. This may not have been the case decades ago when the patient was obligingly subservient and accepted everything a GP told them without question, even if the GP missed a diagnosis of cancer. Playing dumb was part and parcel of being a patient. That is the culture doctors were trained to function in. And some have a hard time when the patient is an equal partner in the process of their diagnosis. In fact the missed diagnosis in my case is a good example of how the GP allowed her sense of self righteousness take precedence over her duty of care to the patient. I left that initial appointment crying and shaking but still had the fortitude to get the right help for myself, thankfully.

DVT: There’s another, unsuspected, cause

ajmcglynn — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 14:50:35 GMT

Does anybody know whether the researchers distinguished between effects on the lungs of smokers compared with non-smokers, or whether the analysis controlled for smoking? My point: I wonder, if the message is that inhaling something other than the traditional atmospheric gases is associated with DVT, wouldn't you think the effect of smoking would be more severe than less-concentrated pollution?

Just speculating.

GLASS HOUSES: Cancer specialist attacks alternative therapies

WDDTY — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 13:28:43 GMT

Everyone knows the old saying 'People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones', everyone, that is, except Prof Jonathan Waxman, a cancer specialist at Imperial College in London.

He's been throwing stones at the alternative medicine and organic foods markets, which he says do nothing to help cancer patients other than to give them false hope, and generate vast profits for themselves in the meantime.

"It is the hope of clinicians that the snake oil salesmen that peddle cures and exploit the desperate will be tipped in the cobra-filled dustbin of oblivion," he writes in a vitriolic essay in the British Medical Journal.

To that end, all alternative strategies should be reclassified as drugs - as they all claim a cure (although few to our knowledge actually do) - and legislate them out of existence, he says. "Protect our patients from vile and cynical exploitation whose intellectual basis, at best, might be viewed as delusional," upon saying which he went back into his house, made entirely from glass.

First up with his own slingshot was Dr Damien Downing, medical director with the Alliance for Natural Health, a group that is fighting to safeguard alternative medicine against a barrage of EU legislation.

Prof Waxman assumes that, in contrast to alternative and complementary medicine, conventional therapies are tested by sound science. Sadly, that's not the case, says Dr Downing. A quick visit to the BMJ Clinical Evidence website reveals that, of the 2,404 treatments surveyed, just 15 per cent were rated as beneficial, while it's not known if 47 per cent are effective at all.

Turn to Prof Waxman's own specialty of oncology and the picture worsens. A study prepared in 2004 revealed that chemotherapy achieved a five-year survival rate of less than 2.5 per cent. Dietary changes are four times as effective in treating cancer, another study revealed.

Other doctors don't seem to share Prof Waxman's confidence in the scientific basis of medicine. Writing in the same issue, Aubrey Blumsohn, a consultant at the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals, says that doctors have allowed the drugs industry to sabotage medicine. "We have allowed (the drugs) industry to subvert the rules of science. We have watched quietly as governments and academics have colluded with industry to hide information critical to our patients. We have remained silent as our medical schools have churned out graduates who have no knowledge of the dilemmas and scandals of medicine. We have allowed many of our medical journals to become corrupted and timid," he writes.

Come to think of it, Prof Waxman's house isn't made of glass at all. It's constructed entirely from straw.

(Sources: British Medical Journal, 2006; 333: 1121 (Blumsohn) and 1129 (Waxman)).

Wddty E-news 30th November 2006 No.314

Altzheimer's

zwgruba — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 10:55:34 GMT

Research has shown that underlying each plaque there is a leaking capillary. This means that AD is really a bruised brain. This means that AD should be predictable. The Nun's study revealed that the chance of a nun developing AD could be predicted 100% by her induction letter at the age of 19.

Leaky capillaries are usually due to Vit K insufficiency. I have used Vit K with enormous benefit in women who bruise easily. These same women report that their brains start glowing after Vit K injestion.

As far as good vs bad cholesterol is concerned. Low levels of "bad" cholesterol is associated with increased levels of cancer. When are folk out there going to get it into their little brains that there is no such thing as "bad" chemistry.

At its crudest basic, God doesn't make mistakes.

Zenon Gruba MB,MS; RACGP; FAMAC; FACNEM; Dip MORA; Dip Mayr; ND; Dip Dietician; Dip Herbal medicine; KHSOJ.

re: How Depressed are you?

awitchinsherwood — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 09:14:43 GMT

I can tick almost ALL the boxes, but what good is that when there's nothing to tell me what I can do?

Oh, I see.

I can BUY a book.

Wait a minute. No I can't. I'm already in debt up to my ears.

That's a very big contributing factor to my depression. That and MS.

So, really, there's NOTHING I can do.

I think things were better when a doctor's advice was 'pull yourself together'.

As you can probably tell, I'm completely disillusioned with the whole of the medical fraternity, mainstream and alternative.

All they do is argue who is right and who is wrong and try to debunk each others research/results. Oh, and CHARGE for their services, in one way or another.

NO-ONE seems to CARE about the poor people who are suffering from the illnesses/diseases.

It makes me VERY ANGRY. Can you tell?

Julia - MS sufferer

Blood Thinners: Treatment is too long, and dangerous – just as they pointed out 15 years ago (E-news broadcast 20 April 2007 No.352)

WDDTY — Wed, 09 May 2007 14:52:30 GMT

Doctors still routinely give patients a blood thinner such as warfarin and heparin for six months to treat deep vein thrombosis (DVT) or pulmonary embolism – and they could be putting the patient’s life at risk by doing so.

Since 1992, recommended treatment time for anticoagulants, or blood thinners, has been set at three months’ maximum, and yet doctors still regularly prescribe them for a six-month period.

The patient gets no benefit from the extended therapy – in fact, he or she is more likely to die, or suffer a recurrence or hemorrhage, than if he stopped the drug therapy after the recommended three months.

The difference has been underlined in yet another trial, which tested the two treatment periods on a group of 749 DVT or pulmonary embolism patients. After a year, 19 of those who had the six months’ treatment had died, compared with 14 in the three-month trial group, while 35 suffered some serious reaction from the treatment – usually a major hemorrhage – after the six months’ therapy, as against 31 in the three months’ trial.

Not that anticoagulants are especially safe even when given over a short time. The UK’s National Patient Safety Agency has revealed that, last year, 120 people in the UK died and a further 480 suffered ‘serious harm’ after being given warfarin. These deaths and reactions were mainly due to doctor error and a failure to monitor the patient after prescribing a powerful dose of the drug.

(Source: British Medical Journal, 2007; 334: 674-7, and 714).

Cancer Drugs: Why ‘wonder’ treatments almost never are

ajmcglynn — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 17:49:06 GMT

I don't know what to make of this article. It reports that a number of drug trials were stopped early after limited testing on a small number of patients due to premature conclusions about the drugs' effectiveness. The article doesn't state how effective the drugs turned out to be. If in fact the drugs were effective on patients from the population at large without unsuspected serious side effects, the judgment of the researchers and regulators was vindicated, so there should be no complaint.

My personal view is that, if there is a reasonable alternative for treatment, don't use a new drug, regardless of the adequacy of its trial. Wait reports of side effects until the drug has been on the market for five years or so.

Autism/Vaccine Link case in U.S.

sstanfield — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 17:05:11 GMT

6 March

Today's wddty email issue has a misleading heading on the recent story out of the US regarding a vaccine court case. It conjoins the MMR jab with the idea/theory of a link with the mercury-containing additive thimerosal. In point of fact, the MMR jab does not have thimerosal in it (being a live-virus vaccine, the thimerosal would kill the active ingredients). The case was about vaccines in general; a cocktail of them that the child received at the age of 18 months which included the MMR but also a number of others, some?one? of which contained thimerosal. The details are included in an article in this week's (dated 8 March) online edition of New Scientist, and more fully in a David Kirby article in the online issue of Huffington Post. Let's be careful of conjoining the MMR jab with the mercury link. It has its own dangerous biochemical pathway. The vaccine's measles virus is bad enough, in its effect on the child's gut (potentially inducing leaky gut syndrome), is bad enough, without clouding the issue with the mercury factor.

CT Scans

bscole — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:16:36 GMT

I read the WDDTY article on CT scans with some alarm as I have already had two (one to diagnose bowel cancer and one a year after the operation to remove it) and am now coming up for number three (two years after operation). I was alarmed to read that 3 CT scans will give me the equivalent dose of radiation to the atomic blast at Hiroshima. I have since reading this put the coming CT scan 'on hold' to give me time to do some research. My consultant surgeon has told me it is important to have a scan at this time so that any metastases can be detected early. He says one CT scan is the equivalent of 6 months normal atmospheric radiation. I don't find this reassuring as we don't live through 6 months of radiation all in one dose. I have been told that a PET scan should be much less harmful but it is difficult to get information on PET, most hospital don't have a PET scanner and those that do appear to combine PET with CT, which puts us back to square one effectively. There are also MRI scans but I have been told they don't really do the trick for abdominal examination. So I have now re-booked the CT scan and I am cross with WDDTY for publishing only the (very) negative information about CT scans while offering no information at all on the alternatives. I realise this is what WDDTY does quite a lot and I am beginning to think it is somewhat dangerous. I am certainly now experiencing stress about the coming CT scan.

Barbara Cole.

Herbal Thyroid medication

Gotami — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 13:08:36 GMT

Thanks to E Barnett. Bucks for the information about the underactive thyroid medication TH 207 available from BioCare. I ordered this and after only two weeks am suddenly finding, that, after 15 years on thyroxine, my bubble and bounce are returning, I am getting enthusiastic again, and have begun to lose a little weight. THANKS!!

'Useless appendix'!

psnow01 — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:32:56 GMT

Dear WDDTYas,

The ridiculous notion that the appendix was a 'useless' 'vestigial' 'evolutionary leftover' organ has long been thrown out, but the brainwashed mainstream Sci/Med/Tech media just will not let this sort of rubbish go. You would have thought they could learn & move on, but no, for until recently they were still also bleating their nonsense about so called left-over 'Junk' DNA!! As it is some 90% of all highly designed & incredibly complex DNA, as yet barely understood, it obviously has some role - as is rapidly being uncovered by real science.

Another closely related example - although Ernst Haeckel's 18th century human embryos drawings, supposedly showed us 'recapitulating' our 'evolutionary' past, through various amphib/rept/mammal phases, they were exposed as frauds in German court within a few yrs - but it took the London Times over 100 yrs to likewise expose them as deliberate Frauds! They are still in many textbooks, & used by such as Doc Winston in his Abortion/'Therapeutic Cloning' & Evolutionary propaganda TV programs. [And it is only adult stem cells that are proving helpful]

Philip Snow [author/artist 'The Design & Origin of Birds', DayOne Books.]

Malaria: Vitamin A and zinc can keep it at bay

ajmcglynn — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 19:13:19 GMT

On the other hand:

It's good to know that Vitamin A and zinc are beneficial, but nutrients don't always help. It's been known for some time that the malaria parasites like Vitamin E. The reader can confirm this by an internet search, although some care in reading the abstracts is necessary. Here are excerpts from two abstracts (emphasis, mine):

1. Serum vitamin A and E concentrations in acute falciparum malaria: modulators or markers of severity? Author: Davis, T M : Binh, T Q : Danh, P T : Dyer, J R : St John, A : Garcia W : ebb, P : Anh, T K Citation: Clin-Sci-(Colch). 1994 Nov; 87(5): 505-11

...As found previously in animal models, depressed vitamin E levels may have a beneficial effect on the course of malarial infection....

Antioxidant status of Nigerian children with Plasmodium falciparum malaria

The relationship between malarial parasitaemia and the concentrations of vitamin E and the 5 carotenes were positively correlated (r = 0.83 and r = 0.99, respectively). (Comment: 'positively correlated' means the higher the vitamin E, the worse the parsitaemia.) The levels of plasma vitamin A and vitamin C were negatively correlated with the malarial parasitaemia (r = -0.98, and r = -0.96, respectively). (Comment: 'negatively correlated' means the higher the vitamins A and C, the less serious the parasitaemia.)

Cannabis as an effective analgesic

jmcatlow — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:56:37 GMT

When my late husband was suffering from severe pain in the final stages of his cancer,

the prescribed analgesia was virtually ineffective, but he got great relief from smoking

cannabis. Proof positive, I feel ,of its use.

Osteoporosis: The effective way of treating it without drugs

ajmcglynn — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 19:47:12 GMT

The E-News article reports a study showing potassium citrate supplementation is helpful in treating or preventing osteoporosis. I don't know how much potassium the participants received as supplements, but here is a consideration: In the United States, individual supplements (e.g., tablets) without prescription are limited to 99 mg of potassium each, although the government doesn't attempt to prevent you from taking as many of these as you like. The DRV "Daily Reference Value" for potassium for an adult is 3500 mg, so a single 99 mg supplement isn't very much.

The reader who wants to supplement with potassium might try bananas, instead. The "nominal" banana contains 450 mg of potassium.

There are foods with even higher amounts: for example, potatoes, including french fried potatoes. Yes, but... A consideration is the ratio between sodium and potassium. Americans and, I guess, Europeans, tend to consume an excessive amount of sodium relative to their needs and to the amount of potassium they ingest. Foods other than fruits tend to come with seasonings, containing high amounts of sodium, so fruits might be the better bet.

The end of homeopathy? (Hopefully)

newolder — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:24:34 GMT

Dr Ben Goldacre writes it well, imho.

"Worth 10-minutes of anyone's time.", jeremyp @ sciencefile

ed. :-|

http://www.badscience.net/2007/11/a-kind-of-magic/