There is a strong move within the medical communities and government bodies such as the US FDA to make sure that people who are ill are not subject to scam claims about alternative cancer remedies and natural cancer treatments.
This would be fair enough if the medical community was actually offering treatments that worked. Unfortunately some [...]
I have spent almost a year searching deeply within the medical literature trawling for indicators of what can improve our chances of good health. There is a strong division in understanding between the standard medical practitioner and the alternative health brigade.
The medical model is all about helping people get better using a short history (in human terms) of [...]
When I started writing this blog I had no idea where my explorations would take me. Writing forced me to look for something to write about and I focussed on some of the research surrounding nutrition and medicine. While I was aware of the impact of the big pharmaceutical companies on research and doctors I [...]
Earlier in this blog (28 June) I wrote about a medical journal article that commented on the latest medical findings that heart disease is due to inflammation and the body’s attempt to cope with it and not to arteries blocked by cholesterol.
Now I have come across an article that indicates that not only is heart [...]
I am on the road to recovery after my third bout of flu in four weeks – or is it the same flu three times. Who knows? This raises some big questions for me as obviously my immune system is not functioning very well. So I am busy exploring how to improve immune function. One [...]
Last Monday I was amused to find that the mild upper respiratory tract infection I was suffering from met all the criteria for being considered swine flu in my country. I had been taking such good care of myself but my sister brought this mild infection into the house and after she left both my [...]
I’ve had a paper tucked away in one of my research document boxes for a number of years and have only just had an in depth look at it. It was a review which at first sight indicated that fat active people were healthier than slim inactive ones. And when I looked at it for [...]
Another health blog.
The study I look at today is one from Singapore looking at older adults (over 55) and their tea consumption and published last year. Previous studies have suggested that tea was beneficial in preventing heart disease, cancer and overall death rates. A Japanese study showed that green tea but not black tea improved [...]
The more I read medical journals the less I like the use of drugs but until lately I had always been somewhat of a fan of vaccines to prevent communicable diseases.
The root of my trust was the oft told story from my mother about her great aunt Polly. Polly was born about 1830 I [...]
I was sent a review article on the benefits of Vitamin D. Amongst other things it lists the diseases that are implicated when people lack enough vitamin D:
cardiovascular disease
hypertension
type 2 diabetes
prevention of type 1 diabetes
osteoarthritis
multiple sclerosis
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