December 2018 – What should we eat now?

As October’s autumn fruitfulness is lost in November rains, December days get shorter and we start to look towards a midwinter feast to stave off the gloom. December is not only the lead up to Christmas, but these days it is also when thousands gather for two weeks at the United Nations Climate Change conference,…

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Changing our lives: Whose responsibility is our health? June 2014

Changing our lives: Whose responsibility is our health? “The treatment of a disease represents an admission of failure. Prevention is the goal of medical research and clinical practice.” Professor Peter Elwood, Cochrane Institute, Cardiff University, Apologies to those loyal readers, who read and comment on my occasional health related blogs. I am a couple of …

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Food is better medicine than drugs

To start us off this year what better book than Food is Better Medicine than Drugs by Patrick Holford & Jerome Burne. I have known Patrick for many years and he is a great populariser of powerful, science based information that is often not otherwise widely disseminated. He and  award winning medical journalist, Jerome Burne,…

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