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The deadly consequences of drug side-effects being ‘neglected, restricted, distorted and silenced’ by Dr. John B. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Last month I wrote a blog post about how the information about the adverse effects of drugs can be “neglected, restricted, distorted and silenced.” Why is this imp ... Read on »

Gastroenterologist disses the value of chewing by Dr. John B. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Perusing on-line newspapers yesterday I came across this. According to the national newspaper the Observer (UK), Professor Chris Hawkey, president of the British Society of Ga ... Read on »

Do regular exercisers really benefit by eating a load of bread and pasta? by Dr. John B. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine I have been doing some lecturing this week, and part of the information I imparted concerned the potential advantages of eating a diet relatively low in carbohydrate. It&rsquo ... Read on »

Low vitamin D levels linked with increased risk of type 1 diabetes (again) by Dr. John B. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Type 1 diabetes is a condition characterised by raised levels of sugar in the bloodstream, and it’s underlying cause is a lack of insulin (usually secreted by the pancre ... Read on »

More bad news for the makers (and takers) of cholesterol-reducing drug ezetimibe (Zetia) by Dr. John B. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Previously, I have written about the drug combination of simvastatin and ezetimibe (sold as Vytorin in the US). Both of these drugs reduce cholesterol, but through different m ... Read on »

Faster walking associated with reduced risk of death by Dr. John B. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Exercise is generally good for health, and one form of exercise that I advocate strongly is walking. Regular walking has been associated with protection from chronic diseases ... Read on »

Statin side-effects that the pharmaceutical industry appears not to want you to know about by Dr. John B. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine There is generally unbridled enthusiasm in the medical establishment for cholesterol-reducing drugs known as statins. While they do have the ability to reduce the risk of card ... Read on »

Slower eating leads to higher levels of appetite-sating hormones by Dr. John B. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine There’s a fair chance that at least once in your life you’ve been advised to eat slowly. I think this is good advice, at least in part because slower eating genera ... Read on »

Chocolate found to protect skin from light damage by Dr. John B. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine I generally advise against eating refined sugar. I, personally, eat hardly any, but I do eat some. Practically all of this comes in the form of 85 per cent cocoa chocolate. I, ... Read on »

Higher protein diets found to have benefits for bone by Dr. John B. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine I make no secret of my leaning towards high-protein, relatively low-carb diets. I am well aware of the relatively unhealthy reputation that such diets have. However, when one ... Read on »

Can drinking tea help mitigate against the effects of stress? by Dr. John B. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Probably all of us know that life events and ‘stress’ can change our mood, but there’s less acknowledgement, I think, that what we can have impact here too. ... Read on »

Adverse effects of drugs are “neglected, restricted, distorted and silenced” by Dr. John B. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine When someone takes a medicine, it is generally in the hope that it will do some good. However, whether it does or doesn’t is only half of the story: even the seemingly m ... Read on »

Vitamin D associated with signficantly reduced risk of death from stroke by Dr. John B. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Regular readers will know that I have a particular interest in the role of sunlight in health, in large part due to its ability to stimulate vitamin D production in the body. ... Read on »

World Health Organization study links mobie phone use with enhanced risk of brain and other tumours by Dr. John B. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Mobile phones are undeniably convenient, but that fat that they emit electromagnetic radiation means that they have at least some potential to affect individuals who use them. ... Read on »

Could our ancient ancestors have given today’s champion athletes a run for their money? by Dr. John B. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Anyone familiar with my health ‘philosophy’ will know that I am a big believer in using our ancient past to inform our modern-day dietary and lifestyle habits. Log ... Read on »

Are we really becoming steadily more sedentary? by Dr. John B. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Body weight, and specifically fatness, is determined by a complex interplay of factors including diet, exercise and sleep habits. In some posts, I have highlighted the effect ... Read on »

Is there such as thing as a ‘metabolic advantage’? by Dr. John B. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Last Friday my blog focused on a study which found that fat intake (total fat, as well as levels of, saturated, unsaturated and polyunsaturated fat) appeared to have no impact ... Read on »

More evidence comes to light that fat is not fattening by Dr. John B. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine We all know that fat is fattening right? (It is called fat, after all.) But not so fast, because as I detail here, for fat to get ‘fixed’ in the fat cells, a subst ... Read on »

‘Blue’ light found to be most effective in combating seasonal affective disorder by Dr. John B. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine I was out last night with a friend, and he mentioned his mother’s depression. Seeing as we’re now deep into the autumn here in the UK, I asked if there was any sea ... Read on »

Vitamin D supplementation found to improve insulin sensitivity by Dr. John B. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine In a recent post I highlighted a study which has found that higher vitamin D levels are associated with a reduced risk of death. This evidence actually comes on the back of ot ... Read on »

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