Brain health is important. Fifty percent of us will have Alzheimer’s by the time we are 85 if we don’t do something about it. Eating fish just once a week may help with that, according to new research reported on in USA today this week. But there is...
Omega-3 Cuisine, my new cookbook, has a subtitle I don't want anyone to miss: Recipes for health and pleasure. It's become an ongoing goal of mine to bring these two together, because in my mind they are inseparable. I've always maintained that in...
According to historical record, soldiers of the Roman Empire marched with rations of bread baked with flaxseed meal and flax seed oil 9000 years ago. They most likely felt the “grounded” feeling, a feeling of mental stability after eating their...
Re macular disease (WDDTY vol 15 no 3), do you mean vegetable fats after they’ve been processed, as in margarine?
The hysteria against fat has got out of control. In the US, Fat Free Food (F3) stores are springing up, with shelves lined with highly processed food containing virtually no fat. In the UK, too, m ...
We all know that fatty fish and supplements containing omega-3 fatty acids can help prevent a second, and perhaps fatal, heart attack - but researchers have now found that the same diet can also help healthy people live longer too.
Fish oils
The standard line tells you to stop smoking, reduce high blood pressure and lower your cholesterol levels if you want to avoid heart disease. While this may be good advice, half of all heart patients are non-smokers with normal levels of cholesterol...
If you’re worried about cholesterol and want to reduce it, here’s what you can do:
* Follow a Montignac low-glycaemic diet (low processed carbohydrates),
Q My life is being made hell by hot flushes and night sweats. I am 50 years old and reluctant to take HRT. And now all the herbs have been discredited. Can you recommend any natural ways to combat the menopause? - S.T., via e-mail
John Whitcomb
What Doctors Don't Tell You
