July Blog 2012

  What does a pensioner look like in 2012?  As the 2012 London Olympics finally arrive it is time to mention my own attempt to change my shape, get healthier and fitter and even, hopefully raise some money for my favourite two charities. The Sunflower Trust and F.R.O.M.E. the Fund for Osteopathic Research into Myalgic…

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June Blog 2012

 This Month let me introduce our Guest Blogger…  Silvie is one of the talented professionals we have working here at Helix House offering her special brand of healing. I am happy to introduce her to you through the Health-e Coaching monthly blog and recommend her skills to you. Silvie has spent the last ten years…

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May Blog 2012

Medicine is for people, not statistics: What is the Evidence for Evidence-Based Medicine?  At this time when we are again remembering the Bard of Stratford it is  interesting to hear that in his day the only way most people gained their news and /or history was either through a conducted tour around the graves of the…

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April Blog 2012

Meat: To Eat or Not? What is a person to do, if unlike me, you like meat, eat it fairly regularly and have always believed what your mummy told you, that meat was central to a healthy diet? Then every now and again some fancy body, this time, The Harvard School of Public Health, in…

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March Blog 2012

The Way we see the world This month I have been inspired by  David Hockney’s brilliant, colour soaked,  life affirming exhibition at the Royal Academy. Hockney is a great master of seeing, and much of his present enormous recent output at the Royal Academy is a lesson in the art of seeing. This month how…

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February Blog 2012

 The Sunshine Tonic “What vitamin deficiency affects over half of the population, is almost never diagnosed, and has been linked to depression,  dementia, many cancers, autoimmune diseases like multiple sclerosis and fibromyalgia, high blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes, chronic muscle pain, and bone loss? What vitamin is almost totally absent from our food supply? What…

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January Blog 2012

 Happy New Year from all of us at Helix House! If you have not done so already please help us spread the word and go to Helix House on Facebook  ‘like’ us, if you do, that is! We would love to hear your stories if you have found your way back to better health and…

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December Blog 2011

The Whole team at Helix House would like to thank you for all your custom and as well as  friends and acquaintances you have sent along to consult us this year and to wish you a very Happy Christmas and a wonderfully Healthy New Year! Please note that the office will be closed from Saturday…

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November Blog 2011

Arthritis  This month I want to write a few words about Arthritis. There are around 9 million people in the UK suffering from some form of the 200 different kinds of Arthritis. Some of these are quite rare, while some, like Rheumatoid Arthritis, R.A.  and Gout are, sadly all too common. R.A. is what is…

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October Blog 2011

Don’t eat anything with a mother or a face! Want to avoid the No1 killer in the western world? Bill Clinton did. But not until he had had one  heart attack and a stent put in to hold his coronary artery open against the build up of gloop. Getting that close to the end, can…

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