16th November 2009
There is much passing reference to the need to eat more vegetables in order to avoid cancer, but beyond the urging of some health promotion staff little seems to be written in the lay press in any detail at all. In addition to this, or perhaps because of ...
03rd November 2009
There are many schools of thought in the cancer alternative medicine literature about what is needed by way of diet in natural cancer treatments. The vast majority suggest that someone who wants to heal themselves from cancer must give up meat, especially...
30th October 2009
For years we have been told to avoid the sun to reduce the chances of getting skin cancer. This is very important for places that have strong sun, like here in Australia. But have we gone overboard and inculcated a fear of the sun to such an extent that s...
29th October 2009
When we are looking for relief remedies for a medical condition many in the community turn to their medical practitioner to help them find a remedy for their problem. In this they make the assumption that their doctor is the best person to advise them as ...
27th October 2009
It has become common knowledge that butter is one of the enemies of health along with all of the other so-called bad fats. Science has categorically proven it! But has it? Is there really the agreement that the health promotion advocates would have us bel...
23rd October 2009
There is a strong move within the medical communities and government bodies such as the US FDA to make sure that people who are ill are not subject to scam claims about alternative cancer remedies and natural cancer treatments.
This would be fair enoug...
22nd October 2009
It is devastating for someone to be told that medicine has run out of options and there is no more treatment that can be offered. Some patients adapt to what they consider the inevitable. However some people fight tooth and nail to have a longer period of...
29th September 2009
There is some really important research coming out in the biomedical journals that few people ever make the time and effort to read. This is a pity because it has a direct impact on how doctors should support you and treat you when you get sick.
You ha...
23rd September 2009
Selenium is one of the minerals that is essential to health and it is a problem for those of us where our soils are deficient. There is much in the complementary health literature that says that selenium can prevent cancer, but is that the case? What does...
22nd September 2009
The words in the title about statistics are well known, usually in a slightly different version, but I feel it is a little unfair on statistics. However it is true that most of us don't know how to interpret statistics and even if someone does know it mig...
16th September 2009
Doctors talk amongst themselves about patients' unrealistic expectations about the effectiveness of drugs. Quite often this conversation is done with shaking of heads and often sarcasm in their voices. However it is time that we ask the question: Just who...
16th September 2009
More and more research is being published in the medical journals about the impact of inflammation on the body. Most of us know that inflammation is about redness, swelling, heat and pain, usually after we have been cut or had an infection. What most of u...
11th September 2009
For years now we have been exhorted to avoid the sun, to cover up and to use sun screen so we can avoid getting skin cancer. However unfortunately it looks as though we have thrown the baby out with the bathwater. We desperately need some sun on our skin ...
07th September 2009
People who are seriously or terminally ill are frequently exhorted to "stay positive". Positivity has become a new creed for some. However when you feel you are facing a long period of illness stretching out in front of you possibly or probably culminatin...
02nd September 2009
What can we learn from people who, medically speaking, should have died but didn't? June is one of these. She was not expected to survive the cancer in her hip at 21, and certainly wasn't expected to survive for decades after her first lung metastases occ...
