What Doctors Don't Tell YouTwo years ago, I had a bone densitometry test, which showed osteoporosis in the left hip. My doctor prescribed Fosamax and a calcium supplement. Thanks to your newsletter, I didn’t take the Fosamax. Instead, I took calcium, magnesium and boron...
Cruciferous vegetables such as cabbage and broccoli can help protect against lung cancer. They are rich in isothiocyanates, which are lung-cancer preventatives.
When Nathan Moscrop, a 12-year-old with severe dyslexia, suffered a bout of food poisoning, his GP placed him on a wheat-free diet. Almost immediately, his reading improved by leaps and bounds, and his attention perked up.
The conventional view is that certain foods have fixed pH effects on the body. But the same food that can cause an alkaline shift in one metabolic type can cause an acidic shift in another metabolic type (Wolcott W, Fahey T. The Metabolic Typing...
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Change your diet. A wide range of nutritional disturbances have been recognized in Crohn's and UC patients (J R Col Physicians London, 1986; 20: 45-8; Postgrad Med J, 1983; 50: 690-7). .. ...
''Nuns and midgets, that’s the ticket,'' American author John Gregory Dunne was advised as a fledgling journalist by his editor at Time magazine. Dunne took his mentor’s advice, and the oddity - in the form of the flotsam and jetsam of the human...
The Western diet contains an average of 16.6 mmol/day of sulphate compared with the 2.7 mmol/day consumed by the average rural African. Animal studies have shown that high levels of sulphated polysaccharides
Stroke prevention, like heart disease prevention, is largely a matter of common sense. Lifestyle changes may be unlikely to produce immediate benefits; one study, for instance, concluded that diet ...
* Test for allergies, metal poisoning and other toxins such as pesticides, except in cases of autism. (The effects of autism are due to toxicity of foods, rather than allergies per se, and the tests won’t pick up any reaction.)
