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Today is Duck Day!
The Daily Telegraph, Front page 21.05.2009 Scanning through the front pages of the newspapers today, I came across something refreshing and extraordinary – a gorgeous picture of a duck’s head on the front page of The Daily Telegraph. Now apparently this is all about the ‘revelation’ that an MP claimed expenses concerning a ‘duck house’. [...] Read more »
Humour & Health
Kaplan’s Mnemonic Laughter may not be the best medicine, especially if you have appendicitis, but medicine it certainly is. Hundreds of scientific studies have proved the therapeutic benefits of laughter. Here are some of the ways laughter is good for you. I have used the mnemonic SMILE to remember them all. S STRESS hormones reduced [...] Read more »
More good news for chocoholics • Yes, but… • Homeopathic Tip of the Week: Cravings for sweet things
More good news for chocoholics The Daily Mirror had some very good news for chocoholics. The popular paper reported on the latest health benefit of chocolate – apparently it’s good for coughs! Cocoa, the principle ingredient of chocolate contains a chemical called theobromine which the men in white coats are saying is a third better [...] Read more »
Smoking Kills 5 million a year • Is smoking addiction in our genes • Babies love curry • Homeopathic Tip: Babies
Smoking Kills 5 million a year The Journal Tobacco Control reported the results of a survey of smoking related deaths in the year 2000. Smoking accounted for nearly 5 million deaths worldwide that year, with three times as many men as women succumbing to the deadly effects of the most addictive weed on the planet. [...] Read more »
Tea Too is Good for Your Memory • Tea Too is Good for Your Memory • Obesity in Pets • Tip of the Week: Colds & Flu, continued…
Tea Too is Good for Your Memory The Science correspondent of The Times reports that drinking tea regularly can help prevent the distressful memory losing illness, Alzheimer’s Disease.According to research carried out by the men in white coats at Newcastle Universities Medicinal Plant Research Centre, tea acts against the certain enzymes in the brain helping [...] Read more »
The Diet for Chocoholics? • Dr. Kaplan’s Ultimate Diet • To Stretch or not to Stretch • Tip of the Week: Overdoing exercise
The Diet for Chocoholics?The Daily Express is not a newspaper I usually read but when I saw a front page headline that said: ‘The New diet that can end your sugar cravings’ I just had to buy an issue. Well it’s all about yet another new diet book. This one is called ‘Why do you [...] Read more »
Woman about to overtake Men?? • Tip of the Day: Colds & Flu
Woman about to overtake Men?? For those of us who like to watch the Olympic Games there was an interesting little article in The Week. The men in white coats at no less than Oxford University have been comparing the performances of men and women on the track. Now, everybody knows that men are faster [...] Read more »
Medicine, Philosophy and ‘Alternative Medicine’ •
Medicine, Philosophy and ‘Alternative Medicine’ Last week I recommended a book, Hippocratic Oaths: Medicine and its Discontents by Raymond Tallis (Publisher: Atlantic Books, 2004) The author, a doctor and a philosopher, makes a scathing attack on the nanny state interfering with NHS medicine, spending vast quantities on ‘improvements’ that do not stand up to examination [...] Read more »
Medicine, Philosophy and the NHS •
Medicine, Philosophy and the NHS A book by a doctor and philosopher has caught my attention. It’s called Hippocratic Oaths: Medicine and its Discontents by Raymond Tallis The Times printed several large extracts from the book. In the first extract, provocatively entitled ‘How Patient Power Could Kill The NHS’ the ‘eminent consultant and noted philosopher’ [...] Read more »
Homeopathy Special
HOMEOPATHY SPECIAL The Times devoted a whole page to homeopathy in France. For many years France has afforded homeopathy great respect. Visitors to Paris will not have failed to notice that every pharmacy advertises that it carries homeopathic remedies on the front window, something unheard of on these shores. Now homeopathy is being threatened by [...] Read more »
