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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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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May Blog 2011

Nutritionism Do you care more about the virtue of what you eat than the pleasure you receive from eating it?… Does your diet socially isolate you? With these two questions you may be able to start to diagnose a new eating disorder according to former sufferer Dr. Steve Bratman…Orthorexia nervosa .  If your answers to…

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March Blog 2011

“Old age isn’t so bad when you consider the alternative”. – Maurice Chevalier Getting Ready for a Greyer World A recent headline in the New York Times reports ‘As the population ages, firms see new markets’. Being a classic baby boomer myself I have mixed feelings about such approaches. On the one hand of course…

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January Blog 2011

Happy New Year! I thought we might start the year off with the fashionable topic of nudging. Not the nudge, nudge wink, wink variety so exquisitely (and painfully!) displayed all those years ago by Erik Idle of Monty Python fame, but rather the way in which the government wants to change the way we think…

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December Blog 2010

Serious and imminent threat to Health Freedom of Choice I do know how time consuming zooming off to this or that e-mail campaign can be. Before you know it your work plan for the day is totally off and you wonder what you did with your day. However, in my opinion the film will be…

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November Blog 2010

Losing sleep speeds up the ageing process In a recent US study, researchers found that just one week of sleep deprivation altered subjects’ hormone levels and their capacity to metabolise carbohydrates. During sleep deprivation, the blood sugar levels of the men who participated in the study took 40 per cent longer to drop following a…

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