Health
Reflexology on BBC2 last night
Alternative Therapies BBC2 Monday 24/3/2008 In an appallingly crafted hour of ‘investigation’ into whether reflexology works Professor Kathy Sykes interviews various reflexologists, their patients and eminent scientists. This was very bad TV because you could see the bias from the beginning and the conclusion is telescoped well in advance. Of course an anatomist was wheeled [...] Read more »
A Witchhunt on Homeopathy
THE HOMEOPATHIC WITCHUNT Attacks on Homeopathy Ever since it inception in 1810, homeopathic medicine has endured periods where it has been ridiculed, insulted and generally lambasted. Such periods tend to alternate with times in which it enjoys widespread support. At the moment it is enduring a sustained attack in the media generally supported by eminent [...] Read more »
Eat to live – Eat to die
EGGHEADS LINK CANCER TO DIET AND OBESITY There have been some big revelations in the medical news in recent weeks. The Times in particular led with a front page headline: THE NEW RULES FOR DEFEATING CANCER. Our society, which has had more new ‘rules’ and regulations passed on it than possibly any other in history [...] Read more »
On its way to England: The 1420 Calorie Hamburger! • Careful with Vitamin E • But eat plenty of Porridge • Oscillococcinum
On its way to England: The 1420 Calorie Hamburger! Yes, dear readers, it’s here – the meal, called by a nutritionist ‘a heart attack in a bun’. Hardees, the fast food chain in the US who have created this 107g of fat in a sandwich known as a ‘Monster Thickburger’ make no apologies for the [...] 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 »
