For tens of thousands of years, human beings knew how to feed themselves: Preservation of topsoil Crop rotation Natural fertilisers Locally grown, seasonal fruit and vegetables Fresh, free range meat, eggs and milk Freshly cooked, nutritious meals. The food they produced was rich in essential micro-nutrients. Today, with our sedentary lifestyles,…
I get confused about the Omegas, so I am sure my readers do. The main reason for this confusion is that the names keep changing and the advice is often false. So, let’s clarify the issue. We’ll start with a quiz: The omegas are all ‘essential’. They are all polyunsaturated…
My very first post in March 2009 expressed concern that: Our health is failing, despite spending ever more, per capita, on health care We are overweight There is an epidemic of diabetes Ischaemic heart disease prevalence has not changed in 30 years Allergic conditions are escalating The war on cancer…
It is with the greatest sadness that HETN reports on the death of David Patient – AIDS activist, life coach, educator, bon viveur. David was an inspiration to many. He was certainly an inspiration to Geoff Douglas, who wrote an entire chapter about him in Life is a Fatal Illness. He served…
When I was a medical student in the 1960s, I would occasionally ask what the NHS was trying to do. I was always told to stop asking stupid questions. I suspect that if my question had been taken seriously, the answer would have been that the NHS is trying to…
It is interesting to note that, when I was studying medicine in the 1960s, we were aware of a condition that we called presenile dementia, but it was uncommon. By 2003, the number of people diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease was estimated at 26.6 million worldwide, and it was estimated that US$156…
