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To be a REAL MAN, don’t smoke and drink
For once the Atkins diet was not in the news this week. Small wonder considering the devastating blow it received from Denmark. (See Newsletter no 96 for the Danish study showing that Atkins dieters do lose more weight than other dieters – but only for the first 6 months. To be a REAL MAN, don’t [...] Read more »
Adkins: Does it work in the long term? • Tip of the Week: Bad Breath
THE ATKINS DIET: Does it work in the LONG TERM? The book called itself ‘revolutionary’. It sold more than 45 million copies making it one of the biggest selling books in history. Its message was simple: Carbohydrates are the enemy and must largely be avoided. Protein and fat are fine and you can more or [...] Read more »
Let the Diet Wars begin! • GREED IS THE ENEMY! • Fines for missed GP appointments• Tip of the Week: Sunburn
Let the Diet Wars begin! After two successive columns devoted to the redoubtable Atkin’s diet it would have been time to move on. Except I couldn’t resist telling you about an article in Tuesday’s Times which put the diet in the ring against that old workhorse of a diet or slimming plan – Weightwatchers! Under [...] Read more »
The Atkins Diet: Part I • That Horizon Programme • Tip of the Week: Mosquito bites
The Atkins Diet: Part I That Horizon ProgrammeWell the health news item of the week just has to be BBC2′s Horizon programme on Thursday night. It was all about that most fashionable of diets, The Atkins Diet. It was one of the most interesting and well-made television programmes on a health issue that I’ve ever [...] Read more »
Healthy Snacking • Fruit • Tip of the Week: Digestion
Healthy Snacking – Around the world The BBC has a plethora of information on health issues on the health area of its website (http://www.bbc.co.uk/health) which is well worth a look at. There is a useful article on how to snack without putting on weight. The piece makes the point that snacking is not necessarily unhealthy. [...] Read more »
Fertility and the Atkins Diet • Dr Kaplan’s Rules of Rational Eating • Hay fever •
Fertility and the Atkins Diet So many people are on the Atkins diet that Britain’s butchers are on a high. But how healthy is this popular diet that calls carbohydrates ‘the enemy’. Various studies have allegedly linked it to sugar diabetes, depression, osteoporosis and breast cancer, but none of these links has been substantially proved. [...] Read more »
The Nation’s Health • Safe Sex: Prostitution: To legalise or not to • Homeopathic Tip: Warts
The Nation’s Health As I write this newsletter I’m looking at an A3 poster sent to me by a company called NatCen (The National Centre for Social Research). Apparently they work ‘on behalf’ of the Department of Health. NatCen have done a big health survey of England. The study used a sample of 20 000 [...] Read more »
To smack or not to smack • Good news for milk drinkers • Jogging • Homeopathic Tip: Bruises & grazes that redden the skin
To smack or not to smack, that is the question So how does this controversial debate in the House of Lords become a medical issue? Let me explain. They want to make a law that says you should not smack your kids but if you do smack them, you shouldn’t smack them too hard. So [...] Read more »
When will your biological clock begin to tick? • Homeopathic Tip: Premenstrual TensionWhen will your biological clock begin to tick?
When will your biological clock begin to tick? This is a question that millions of childless women ask themselves. In today’s society women are having babies later and later and some manage to leave it too late. It brings to mind a cartoon I once saw of a smartly-dressed, obviously successful woman throwing up her [...] Read more »
Dr No-Smoke • Food: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly • Happy women are Healthy women • Homeopathic Tip: Football fever
Dr No-Smoke: This week I went to the popular press for health news. Starting with England’s best-selling newspaper, The Sun, I was impressed to see that Sir Richard Doll was mentioned. Now Dr Doll together with a Dr Hill actually were the first to prove that smoking causes lung cancer. They did this some 40 [...] Read more »
