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The classic BBQ food linked to dementia

BBQ Party health dangers

I don’t know how many readers will be having a bbq and tucking into burgers or sausages as they read this. But seeing as it’s a Wednesday (and not the weekend) I presume it’s safe to pass this on today… Last week I read about a new study presented at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference in the USA which tracked the dietary habits of over 100,000 people for more than FOUR decades. It delivered yet more worrying news about processed…
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The amazing thing that happens to old garlic

Is it real or fake?

I love garlic. It’s a staple in my fridge and I chuck it into so many dishes that my wife occasionally complains. I always point out that we have had ZERO vampire problems in all our years of marriage. So, really, she should thank me! In fact, I love garlic so much it was one of the three superstar ingredients I wrote about in my book The Honey Garlic and Vinegar Miracle (you can grab a copy of it from…
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My cholesterol shocker

Healthy hearts need cholesterol

First up, an apology, in Wednesday’s letter I said Akira Endo had his cholesterol check up in 2024, this was a typo, he actually had it in 2004. Last week I experienced a disappointment, I decided to get a full medical checkup – as is advised for people of my age every 5 years. Last time I went into the GP’s surgery was pre-Covid! As you can expect from someone who writes a natural health newsletter, I look after myself…
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Why the inventor of statins refused to take statins

Last month, the inventor of statins died. His name was Akira Endo, a Japanese biochemist. He moved to New York from Tokyo in 1966 to work at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Arriving in the USA, he remarked upon the large number of overweight people, and elderly people with coronary heart disease. When he went back to Japan, he started looking into the link between cholesterol levels and heart problems. Thus began his quest for a drug that blocked…
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Mysterious illness that baffle scientists

Pre-Diabetes

Here’s the weird thing about science. The more we discover, the more we realise what we DON’T know. The strange effects of quantum mechanics where particles act like waves when they’re not being observed… The bizarre invisible dark matter and energy that seems to be gluing the cosmos together. The mysteries of black holes, which are not even holes, but concentrations of matter packed into a tiny space. It’s the same for questions of health and illness. For instance, despite…
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The problem with Alzheimer’s drugs

Alzheimer's

It seems that the battle for Alzheimer’s prevention has been hijacked by big pharma. This is certainly my conclusion when I read between the lines of a new report by the Alzheimer’s Prevention Expert Group (APEG). APEG boasts a panel of 24 global experts chaired by Patrick Holford, including Professor Michael Crawford from Imperial College London, Associate Professor David Perlmutter MD from the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, and Dr Uma Naidoo from Harvard Medical School. Their controversial…
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