What Doctors Don't Tell YouStudies into the effects of high animal-protein intake compared with vegetarianism on the risk of osteoporosis have produced confusing and contradictory findings.
Picture the scene. Your baby is six months old, and is growing healthily and happily on your breast milk alone.
CROHN'S: Can we blame the kitchen fridge?
The Mediterranean diet has become the ‘gold standard’ of diets for its health-enhancing benefits. Its virtues have been confirmed in a new study involving 22,043 adults in Greece who lived a long and healthy life – provided they...
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 ...
Despite being the most widely researched procedures in surgical history, coronary arterial-bypass grafting (CABG) and balloon angioplasty (PTCA) do not increase a stable angina patient’s chance of survival
FAT IS NOT ANYBODY'S ISSUE: It's only the symptom, not the cause
Mr J.P-H., a 47-year-old construction company chairman, consulted me with insomnia. He said he fell asleep normally, but woke at about 2.25 a.m. every night. He felt wide-awake instantly, and had no reason to wake up. On being asked what he did, ate...
Regular exercise provides a myriad of health benefits: it can prevent premature death and lower the risk of disorders associated with ageing. Yet, up to three-quarters of the older adult population do not currently exercise at the recommended levels...
Re WDDTY vol 13 no 11 and the news story about the heart-protective effects of red wine: this is now out of date and perpetuated by wine makers and people who want to continue to enjoy their wine.
