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This week the Rio +20 Summit on Sustainable Development , commemorating the 20th anniversary of the first “Earth Summit”  gets under way. In twenty years we’ve witnessed politicians, bureaucrats, campaigners and NGOs gathering together in  meeting after meeting in glamorous cities and resorts around the world to discuss what to do about the problems of […]

If one story struck a chord with me this week it was a report from the University of Haifa in Jerusalem which revealed that doctors in the Europe, the UK and Israel are getting little or no training in environmental illness. Our website is dedicated to natural health – that means choosing natural methods where […]

It was probably too much to hope for. The Take the Flour Back protesters never got near the fields of experimental GM wheat growing behind high fences at the Rothamstead research facility. The hinted at aim of the protest – to uproot the GM crop – while not legal, had the laudable aim of preventing […]

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  A former Editor of Surfing magazine and an experienced surfer, Evan Slater has ridden many of the waves he writes about in this compelling photographic essay, which gives us a glimpse of the many and varied moods of ocean. While the brief text is thoughtful, even educational in places, this is not a book […]

What is natural health? There was a time when the answer seemed a lot simpler and mostly involved a good diet and choosing natural remedies such as herbs, homoeopathy, aromatherapy and massage over conventional medicines wherever you could. These days it’s more complex. Natural health is as much about actively avoiding – as much as […]

How do you know what’s in the products you use? If you are like most of us you look on the label. Clear labelling helps all of us make informed choice is about the products we buy.  It spells out a product’s ingredients – both what’s in the product sand what’s not – its intended […]

As the weather warms up our focus inevitably turns to diet and food. One major analysis has just shown that eating too much red meat – and in particular processed and preserved meats such as bacon, salami, hot dogs and other deli meats – raises our risk of dying early from disease like cancer and […]

Tested, assessed and treated as patients rather than mothers-to-be, it’s no wonder women are afraid of giving birth naturally, says Pat Thomas as International Women’s Day arrives A healthy woman walks into her doctor’s office. She says ‘Doctor, I’d like to have major abdominal surgery, please.’ In most medical settings a doctor would balk at […]

So many of us talk about how hard it is us to survive these days. But consider the notion of ‘survival’ as portrayed in this striking documentary – a study of the bare bones lifestyles of indigenous hunters in the Siberian Taiga where winter temperatures can fall below -50ºc. The action, such as it is, […]