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Virtually everyone has a theory about colds and flu and, given the glut of information, it may be hard to separate the facts from plain fiction. Yet, there are data that show what makes us vulnerable to these infections, and how to stay well when the weather turns cold. Susceptibility and stress Catching the flu […]

The last several years have seen a revolution in the treatment of arthritis with the discovery that cell communication takes place through carbohydrates (sugars) attached to amino acids in the proteins located on the surface of every cell in your body. Glucosamine is among the eight sugars required to make these ‘glycoproteins’. Researchers have theorised […]

The idea that humans can get all the nutrition they need in a pill or a drink has been the stuff of science fiction for decades. Today, life is imitating art, with many companies claiming to produce powders which, when mixed with milk, water or juice, can provide all the nutrients we need in a […]

Most of the so called inactive ingredients added to food and drugs to make them more appealing can have as many side effects as drugs themselves. When you use a drug, whether by mouth, by inhalation, by injection or on your skin, you’re getting more than just the active ingredients. You are also getting what […]

It is a disease which affects almost any part of the body and produces a bafflingly wide range of symptoms, including skin lesions, meningitis, progressive muscular and joint pain, mood changes and behavioural problems. Doctors don’t know how best to diagnose or treat it, and can’t easily tell when it has been cured. Yet, left […]

In 1999, we published an investigative report on toxic toiletries by our contributing editor Pat Thomas (WDDTY vol 10 no 7). The article caused a furore, raising public awareness about the chemical dangers in common cleaning products. went on to write a book on the subject, Cleaning Yourself to Death (Gill & Macmillan, 2001). The […]

The epidemic of eczema, which affects one fifth of children, may be the fallout from our obsessive concern with keeping our children free of germs. Eczema is now a worldwide epidemic. In the UK, up to one fifth of school age children and one in 12 adults suffer from it. It is itchy, painful, reduces […]

The drugs industry rushed the new ‘human insulin’ onto the market and forced out animal insulin, leaving many diabetics far more ill and now with no alternative form of insulin. In nearly all areas of medicine, the advances come so thick and fast that it can be hard to keep up with them. But, in […]

Touted as the ‘natural cure’ for menopause, the high dose plant supplements may have strong oestrogenic effects on the body, with all the dangers of large doses of ordinary oestrogens. As bad news about HRT keeps rolling in, conventional and alternative practitioners have found themselves scrambling around for something to give women complaining of menopausal […]

It took the death of a 20th century icon, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, to bring non Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL) to the world’s attention. With her passing, we began to realise that this once rare form of cancer was not so rare anymore. In the last 20 years, the incidence of NHL increased by approximately 73 per […]