Media reports and discussion on general health issues - conventional or alternative.
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Thank you, Grahame. Have done the Paypal thing: Tesco style I'm afraid. Every little helps.......
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Tue Feb 05, 2008 10:29 pm
Heston Blumenthal on the vibration of food
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Grahame »
Mon Mar 08, 2021 7:20 pm
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I just watched this BBC Click item about food preparation, where (to my surprise) celebrity chefmeister Heston Blumenthal started talking about...
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That was really interesting, would like to see more on the results. You can tell the interviewer didn’t quite know what to make of it. :D
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Sat Mar 13, 2021 5:07 pm
Rethinking the Placebo Effect
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Ian Pegler »
Thu Jul 03, 2014 6:25 am
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from brainpickings.org...
Rethinking the Placebo Effect: How Our Minds Actually Affect Our Bodies
It has always been assumed that the placebo...
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Some years ago we had Dr David Hamilton as a speaker at BSD Conference. He used to work in the pharmaceutical industry researching new drugs, but was...
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Fri Dec 06, 2019 3:42 pm
Vinegar 'cures church organist of crippling arthritis pain'
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Ian Pegler »
Fri Jan 08, 2010 8:36 pm
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from the Daily Telegraph...
Vinegar 'cures church organist of crippling arthritis pain'
A church organist who was forced to give up music because...
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This post on the waverley dowsers website and video will help undertsanding regarding the 'Vinegar' treatement
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Mon Jan 07, 2019 1:08 pm
Tamiflu: Millions wasted on flu drug, claims major report
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Ian Pegler »
Fri Apr 11, 2014 9:15 am
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from the BBC...
Tamiflu: Millions wasted on flu drug, claims major report
Hundreds of millions of pounds may have been wasted on a drug for flu...
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I suspect that many of us (like I do ) dowse to ask whether a flu jab would protect us from flu. I have never had a Yes response. I understand that...
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Mon Dec 10, 2018 10:31 am
Statins
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Ian Pegler »
Fri May 24, 2013 5:30 pm
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(two topics merged - GG)
from the BBC...
Some statins 'raise diabetes risk'
Some drugs taken to protect the heart may increase the risk of...
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The makers of statins will be gutted. Profits down.
Mind you, no-one can force anyone to take them, we still have the choice to say no.
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Last post by Helen-Healing
Sat Aug 09, 2014 2:03 pm
Yoga for dogs
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Ian Pegler »
Fri Jan 24, 2014 7:08 am
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from the Telegraph...
Doga: how yoga can be good for dogs too
This man tries to relax his excitable chihuahua by teaching it yoga - and it copies...
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No, just observation skill & common sense.
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Last post by Helen-Healing
Tue Mar 25, 2014 9:36 pm
Can a week under canvas reset our body clocks?
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Ian Pegler »
Fri Aug 02, 2013 7:19 am
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from the BBC...
Carry on camping - can a week under canvas reset our body clocks?
Researchers say that camping for a week can reset the...
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Not sure where other thread is but this link will probably do! . I hope....
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Tue Aug 27, 2013 2:26 pm
Simon Singh threatened with legal action again
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Ian Pegler »
Fri Aug 29, 2008 9:18 am
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TV-skeptic Simon Singh (author of Trick or Treatment? Alternative Medicine On Trial ) is being sued for libel by the British Chiropractic...
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An interesting item from this week's Private Eye ....(no 1325, picture of the BBC test card on the front cover). p.11.
LEGAL NEWS
For a...
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Last post by Ian Pegler
Sat Oct 27, 2012 10:54 am
Hopes rise for new cancer treatment
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Ian Pegler »
Sun Jan 08, 2012 11:16 am
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from the Guardian...
Hopes rise for new cancer treatment after tests with electromagnetism
Early trials on patients with advanced liver cancer...
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Blimey... Dufftown?? :shock: I was brought up there for 16 years! I know exactly where her healing centre is - just down the road & round the corner...
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Mon Jan 16, 2012 7:06 pm
The Disinformation Myths Against Homeopathy
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Grahame »
Thu Nov 10, 2011 9:27 am
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Here's an interesting article on naturalnews.com , looking at the methods used by sceptics to 'debunk' homeopathy. The debunking techniques described...
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From the link you gave, Grahame, I learned that homeopathy was very big in India - I hadn't known that...I thought Ayurveda was their choice of...
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Thu Nov 10, 2011 11:17 am
The King's Homoeopath
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Grahame »
Tue Mar 08, 2011 3:24 pm
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An interesting article about the Royal family's use of homoeopathy over the years...
I believe what prevents men from accepting the homeopathic...
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Very interesting article. Thanks for that, Grahame.
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Last post by Helen-Healing
Wed Mar 09, 2011 9:19 am
Nobel Prize winner reports effects of homeopathic dilutions
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Ian Pegler »
Wed Jun 09, 2010 8:01 am
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from ECH...
Nobel Prize winner reports effects of homeopathic dilutions
In a recent study Professor Luc Montagnier, a French virologist who...
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I wonder how many sceptics will be desperately analysing the result of this research to find flaws it it??
Lots. 8)
Ian
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Wed Jun 09, 2010 11:41 am
Homeopathy is "worse than witchcraft"
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Grahame »
Sun May 06, 2007 11:54 am
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Here we go again - bear in mind that this is from the Daily Mule...
Homeopathy is worse than witchcraft - and the NHS must stop paying for it
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Card carrying , is what Ian wrote:
Not quite carrying - but this site may be of interest!
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Mon May 17, 2010 3:34 pm
Joss-sticks increase cancer risk: Official
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Ian Pegler »
Tue Aug 26, 2008 5:48 pm
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from The Register:
Researchers have warned that burning joss-sticks and incense is associated with an increase in some types of lung cancer, and...
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I'd suspect the joss sticks which cause the problems are cheapo ones from India/China which are full of chemicals.
Lorr
Yes. Cheapos are the pits....
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Wed Aug 27, 2008 10:19 pm
Vitamin C 'slows cancer growth'
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Ian Pegler »
Sun Aug 10, 2008 7:22 pm
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An injection of a high dose of vitamin C may be able to hold back the advance of cancers, US scientists claim.
CLICK HERE to read the article.
Ian
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I stand corrected. :oops:
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Last post by Helen-Healing
Tue Aug 12, 2008 12:56 am
Dawkins to attack dowsing on TV
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Ian Pegler »
Sun Aug 05, 2007 11:48 am
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Skeptic and Biologist Richard Dawkins (the author of The God Delusion and The Selfish Gene ) has been given another TV series.
His previous TV...
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Yes, spot on when he says this: Skepticism is also an important weapon in the defence of commercial self-interest. ....The more militant the skeptic,...
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