http://www.thehealthierlife.co.uk/RSS-Feeds/feed.aspx Fri, 10 Feb 2012 03:16:28 GMT Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:09:00 GMT en-GB Copyright 2008 Fleet Street Publications Ltd Sitecore CMS: http://www.sitecore.net. Sitecore RSS module: Sitecore.Modules.RSS, Version=1.2.1.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null In the UK, advertising for prescription pharmaceutical drugs on television, in newspapers and mainstream popular magazines, is currently banned. In the US, however, it's a completely different kettle of fish. There, your favourite primetime television drama will often be interrupted by an ad for a powerful cholesterol-lowering statin drug or some new cancer treatment. There's no escaping these ads! http://www.thehealthierlife.co.uk/natural-health-articles/heart-disease/cholesterol-statins-side-effects-heart-disease-88532.aspx Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:09:00 GMT The Healthier Life http://www.thehealthierlife.co.uk/natural-health-articles/heart-disease/cholesterol-statins-side-effects-heart-disease-88532.aspx A recent study that linked aspirin with a reduced risk of colorectal cancer. First — the study only included patients with Lynch syndrome, a condition that sharply increases colorectal cancer risk. So while aspirin may have protected some Lynch syndrome patients from colorectal cancer, those results can't be extrapolated to the general population. Second — subjects in the study received 600mg of aspirin daily. And that's a long LONG way from the 81mg low dose that's commonly recommended for heart benefits. Those extra 519mg per day would dramatically increase risk of stomach bleeding, heart attack, and stroke — three known side effects caused by regular use of non-steroidal anti- inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), which includes aspirin. So let's come back down to earth with the "breakthrough" research that does not offer the average person a reasonable way to help prevent colorectal cancer. http://www.thehealthierlife.co.uk/natural-health-articles/cancer/cancer-colorectal-cancer-vitamin-b-6-cure-99999.aspx Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:59:57 GMT The Healthier Life http://www.thehealthierlife.co.uk/natural-health-articles/cancer/cancer-colorectal-cancer-vitamin-b-6-cure-99999.aspx If you had chicken pox as a child, then you're at risk of developing a case of shingles. Long after the chicken pox is gone, the virus that caused it (varicella zoster virus, VZV) lies dormant in nerve roots. VZV may rest quietly there for all your days. But for people whose immune systems are compromised by stressful events or immunity-suppressing drugs, VZV may suddenly come roaring back as a case of shingles. The shingles vaccine (known as Zostavax) was approved by the American Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2006, and in the European Union (EU), in 2007. However, you know how it goes... in terms of what we know about adverse side effects, this vaccine is still brand spanking new, despite the fact that it is being used on people. http://www.thehealthierlife.co.uk/natural-health-articles/skin-hair-nails/shingles-vaccination-varicella-zoster-virus-00674.aspx Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:49:51 GMT The Healthier Life http://www.thehealthierlife.co.uk/natural-health-articles/skin-hair-nails/shingles-vaccination-varicella-zoster-virus-00674.aspx The next time you're in a crowded space — at the supermarket filled with holiday shoppers, at a football game, in a busy restaurant — take a look around and consider this: One in every four people you see has a disease called non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and most of them have no idea they have it because they have no symptoms. In fact, most of them have probably never even heard of it. What's MOST disturbing, is that you might be included in that one-in-four. http://www.thehealthierlife.co.uk/natural-health-articles/liver-kidney-urinary/non-alcoholic-fatty-liver-disease-risks-obesity-diabetes-00543.aspx Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:24:06 GMT The Healthier Life http://www.thehealthierlife.co.uk/natural-health-articles/liver-kidney-urinary/non-alcoholic-fatty-liver-disease-risks-obesity-diabetes-00543.aspx The demand for fish has become so intense that HALF of all commercial seafood is now raised on fish farms. And unfortunately, some of the "aquaculture" techniques used on those farms are as deplorable as anything you'd find in a factory farm on dry land. So before you buy your next fish, there are three things you must know... http://www.thehealthierlife.co.uk/natural-health-articles/healthy-living/omega-3-fatty-oils-organic-salmon-food-labels-44321.aspx Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:11:59 GMT The Healthier Life http://www.thehealthierlife.co.uk/natural-health-articles/healthy-living/omega-3-fatty-oils-organic-salmon-food-labels-44321.aspx Using a microwave every once in a while may be convenient. But if you are trying to cook healthy foods, there's no place for radiation, especially if you take into account the potential cumulative effect of ingesting traces of those dangerous materials week after week, month after month, year after year... eventually it all adds up. http://www.thehealthierlife.co.uk/natural-health-articles/environmental-health/healthy-eating-nutrition-microwaving-food-radiation-88552.aspx Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:58:42 GMT The Healthier Life http://www.thehealthierlife.co.uk/natural-health-articles/environmental-health/healthy-eating-nutrition-microwaving-food-radiation-88552.aspx Mammograms are not safe. Compression of the breast may prompt cancer to spread. And then theres the radiation. In his book, Radiation from Medical Procedures in the Pathogenesis of Cancer and Ischemic Heart Disease, John Gofman, M.D., Ph.D. – a nuclear physicist and a medical doctor, and one of the leading experts in the world on the dangers of radiation – presents compelling evidence, that over 50 percent of the death-rate from cancer is in fact induced by x-rays. Dr. Gofman also continues to say that mammogram delivers about 1,000 times more radiation than a chest x-ray and carries a risk of cardiovascular damage... This has also been verified and well-researched by the world renowned Dr. Joseph Mercola. http://www.thehealthierlife.co.uk/natural-health-articles/cancer/how-safe-are-mammograms-00059.aspx Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:17:32 GMT The Healthier Life http://www.thehealthierlife.co.uk/natural-health-articles/cancer/how-safe-are-mammograms-00059.aspx Last week, it came to light that Dr. Dipak K Das, director of the Cardiovascular Research Center at the University of Connecticut, in the US, allegedly doctored the results of at least 26 peer-reviewed resveratrol studies, over a period of seven years. The University launched a probe of Das in 2008, after an anonymous tipster alerted the US Office of Research Integrity. The university review board concluded that Das manipulated research data in at least 145 instances, which was cited in 26 prestigious medical journals. http://www.thehealthierlife.co.uk/natural-health-articles/news-views/heart-health-resveratrol-scandal-00221.aspx Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:46:07 GMT The Healthier Life http://www.thehealthierlife.co.uk/natural-health-articles/news-views/heart-health-resveratrol-scandal-00221.aspx In October last year, drug maker Eli Lilly, issued a statement to The European Medicines Agency, that it will withdraw its drug Xigris — a medicine which used to treat sepsis. Sepsis, where blood borne bacteria overwhelm a vulnerable immune system, can lead to septic shock, organ failure, and death... and if you're an elderly patient or an infant the danger that hangs over your head with every hospital stay is even bigger. For nearly 10 YEARS, many patients and their families pinned their survival hopes on Xigris... only to find out that Xigris had no beneficial effect at all. To put it plainly, the results of a clinical study that started in 2008 showed that 26.4 per cent of patients who took Xigris died compared with 24.2 per cent taking a placebo. http://www.thehealthierlife.co.uk/natural-health-articles/immunity/sepsis-bacterial-infection-treatment-88661.aspx Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:36:46 GMT The Healthier Life http://www.thehealthierlife.co.uk/natural-health-articles/immunity/sepsis-bacterial-infection-treatment-88661.aspx Our arteries are lined with cells, called endothelium. Blood should be able to move through the arteries without damaging the endothelium. However, when blood is thick and sticky it causes friction, which in turn causes abrasions and damage to the cell lining of the arteries. When your endothelium is damaged, your body patches the tissue with fats (lipids), which forms a plaque by thickening and hardening. However, the abrasions from your blood flow prompts the body to thicken artery walls with even more fats, which narrows the arteries, causing more friction, prompting more patches... You get the picture. Eventually, the artery wall becomes so thick that blood can no longer flow through, and that produces a heart attack. This vicious cycle is called blood viscosity. http://www.thehealthierlife.co.uk/natural-health-articles/heart-disease/blood-donation-heart-disease-blood-pressure-88662.aspx Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:00:36 GMT The Healthier Life http://www.thehealthierlife.co.uk/natural-health-articles/heart-disease/blood-donation-heart-disease-blood-pressure-88662.aspx Antibiotics kill both good and bad bacteria. And low levels of good bacteria provide a perfect environment for C. diff to thrive. This is where a good probiotic supplement can help enormously. It's also a good idea to continue probiotic use for a full week after the antibiotic is finished. This isn't overkill — it's insurance. Two recent studies found hospital curtains to be infested with all variety of germs, including Clostridium difficile (more commonly known as C. diff). And one of those studies estimated that as many as 7,000 patients are infected with C. diff EVERY DAY, in the US alone. That's just astounding. C. diff causes diarrhoea, colitis, and other intestinal problems that are sometimes severe enough to require surgery. And because C. diff infections are most common in older patients, many of whom are already sick, C. diff can be deadly. http://www.thehealthierlife.co.uk/natural-health-articles/immunity/clostridium-difficile-hospital-infections-prevention-44228.aspx Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:02:37 GMT The Healthier Life http://www.thehealthierlife.co.uk/natural-health-articles/immunity/clostridium-difficile-hospital-infections-prevention-44228.aspx You can imagine how the parents must feel after they've agreed to vaccinate their child based on the fact that doctors and nurses told them that there is no evidence that these injections can be dangerous. That's just appalling and in my eyes even criminal! It's these same doctors and so-called health professionals that like to portray anyone who disagrees with them as clueless, "anti-vax" loons who stubbornly refuse to understand how safe vaccines really are. See, these "pro-vaxers" take great joy in any evidence — no matter how thin — that suggests there's no link between vaccines and autism, narcolepsy, CFS and much worse side effects. http://www.thehealthierlife.co.uk/natural-health-articles/news-views/vaccine-dangers-side-effects-chronic-fatigue-autism-narcolepsy-76321.aspx Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:48:28 GMT The Healthier Life http://www.thehealthierlife.co.uk/natural-health-articles/news-views/vaccine-dangers-side-effects-chronic-fatigue-autism-narcolepsy-76321.aspx Polypharmacy — when more than one drug is prescribed at a time — is an even bigger problem in hospitals and care homes, where the average patient is given at least seven different drugs a day. A recent UK government review has revealed that drugs like dementia medication are prescribed inappropriately in 80 per cent of cases and are often given to patients as a chemical cosh to keep them quiet! As if that is not alarming enough, the question has now risen whether many of these over-prescribed drugs could be the real culprit behind diseases associated with ageing. http://www.thehealthierlife.co.uk/natural-health-articles/alzheimers/alzheimers-dementia-immobility-instability-age-related-diseases-00223.aspx Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:36:48 GMT The Healthier Life http://www.thehealthierlife.co.uk/natural-health-articles/alzheimers/alzheimers-dementia-immobility-instability-age-related-diseases-00223.aspx Alarming figures from the first-ever review of patient deaths from diabetes, showed that up to 24,000 deaths from the disease could be avoided in England each year. Diabetes UK (the UK's biggest diabetes charity) said that there are nearly 2.3 million sufferers in the UK in desperate need of top quality care in order to curb this unacceptable death toll. The National Diabetes Information Service said the number of people with the condition was rising, meaning that if nothing is done, the number of deaths would also increase. http://www.thehealthierlife.co.uk/natural-health-articles/diabetes/diabetes-deaths-prevention-care-real-diabetes-truth-77661.aspx Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:21:47 GMT The Healthier Life http://www.thehealthierlife.co.uk/natural-health-articles/diabetes/diabetes-deaths-prevention-care-real-diabetes-truth-77661.aspx After reviewing every influenza vaccine study conducted between 1948 and 2007, the Cochrane Collaboration (an independent research organization) concluded in 2009: "There is no evidence whatsoever that seasonal influenza vaccines have any effect, especially in the elderly and young children. No evidence of reduced cases, deaths or complications." After reviewing every influenza vaccine study conducted between 1948 and 2007, the Cochrane Collaboration (an independent research organization) concluded in 2009: "There is no evidence whatsoever that seasonal influenza vaccines have any effect, especially in the elderly and young children. No evidence of reduced cases, deaths or complications." http://www.thehealthierlife.co.uk/natural-health-articles/colds-flu/seasonal-flu-respiratory-infections-colds-86431.aspx Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:02:56 GMT The Healthier Life http://www.thehealthierlife.co.uk/natural-health-articles/colds-flu/seasonal-flu-respiratory-infections-colds-86431.aspx As a regular reader of the Daily Health eAlert, you will know that we've warned many times against the use of PPIs. Much as the mainstream tells us that these drugs control stomach acid, they cause many other problems because gastric acid plays an important role in nutrition and fighting infections such as pneumonia and gastroenteritis. So, how did we get to the point of medicating infants for symptoms that clearly don't call for drugs? In fact, it's normal for babies to start crying when they have a bit of wind... and as we all know, once you wind them there's almost always a bit of... how shall I put it... spillage? It's certainly NOT acid reflux! http://www.thehealthierlife.co.uk/natural-health-articles/digestive-problems/acid-reflux-drugs-prescribed-to-babies-94325.aspx Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:35:04 GMT The Healthier Life http://www.thehealthierlife.co.uk/natural-health-articles/digestive-problems/acid-reflux-drugs-prescribed-to-babies-94325.aspx