DOES THE RESEARCH SHOW THE BENEFITS FROM TAKING FISH OIL SUPPLEMENTS? 

In my clinical experience, Naturopaths used to be the primary health care practitioners that recommended fish oil supplements to their patients. We could see the large range of potential therapeutic benefits from taking marine-derived omega 3 fatty acids and we knew they were not called ‘essential’ fatty acids for no reason! These days, taking fish oil […]

DEMENTIA: IS A HIGH-CARBOHYDRATE DIET THE CAUSE?

There appears to be a strong correlation between the onset of dementia and those that consume a high-carbohydrate diet. Carbohydrates increase blood glucose and even in non-diabetic people whose glucose levels meet the ‘normal range’ – they have still been found to be at higher risk of developing dementia if they consume a high-carbohydrate diet. […]

DEPRESSION IN MIDDLE AGE LINKED TO DEMENTIA

People who have symptoms of depression in middle age may be at increased risk of dementia decades later, a new study suggests. The results, published in the May 2012 issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry, showed that those who had depression symptoms in the later stages of life were 70 percent more likely to […]

EATING BERRIES LINKED TO LOWER PARKINSON’S RISK IN MEN

Eating a bowel of berries every week can reduce the chances of developing Parkinson’s by a quarter, researchers have claimed. Men who regularly consume foods rich in naturally occurring flavonoids, such as berries, apples, certain vegetables, tea and red wine, may significantly reduce their risk for developing Parkinson’s disease (PD), according to a large-scale study […]

Women Are Dying From Hormone Therapy; Why Is Pharma Still Allowed to Push It?

Big Pharma is still pushing its hormone therapy for women, despite the fact that it increases women’s risk of cancer and other health problems. The following article is from Daniel Weber (21.10.10): Want to increase your chances of getting, and possibly dying from, node-positive breast cancer? Take hormone therapy. Pharma’s lucrative estrogen plus progestin combo […]