A comparison of four popular diets – Atkins, Ornish, Zone and LEARN. Read this – and learn what REALLY is good for you.

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It is claimed that you can knock 10 years off your biological age by walking for 30 minutes a day.
Walking is one of the best of exercise plans, because it is easy to do; is cheap; can be done by virtually anybody, and does not damage the joints – as jogging and running do. [...]

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The last three generations of one UK woman – she being the third – have been struck down with breast cancer. Previous members of the family had undergone radical mastectomy to treat this horrific disease.
She decided to try to make sure a daughter of hers did not suffer the same. So she had her [...]

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Some reports state that, because of the credit crunch, organic vegetable and fruit sales are down around 20%.
This may be a false economy.
Organic food consistently has lower levels of pesticide residues than does non-organic. The amounts of these residues may be relatively small, but their effects can certainly be damaging when they [...]

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10% of people admitted to hospitals in the UK suffer some sort of harm. These are the figures given to the House of Commons Health   Committee.
A list of mistakes has been drawn up and these include;

being given the wrong operation
being given the wrong drug
surgical instruments being left in the body
allowing [...]

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Scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine have clarified the role of an enzyme, called lisyl oxidase (LOX) in the role of cancer.
Most people who die of cancer die from metastasis – the spreading of cancer from its original site. This metastasis is enabled by the original tumour producing LOX, which find [...]

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At last, embryonic stem cell research will now get federal funding thanks to President Obama’s reversal of Bush’s ridiculous ban. This has put embryonic stem cell research back 5 years – and we are talking here about cures for various cancers and heart disease. Bush has definitely cost lives, many lives.
The correct course was, [...]

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Warfarin, the anti-coagulant drug often prescribed after strokes and heart attacks, is a high risk treatment because the therapeutic dose – the amount needed for it to have an effect – is rather close to being a dangerous dose. This means that if anything happens to disturb the body’s balance – it could, theoretically, [...]

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Organic health food has some bad news recently when Wholefood Market in Kensington, London posting a huge loss. Now we have a good-news story about organic food – this time from the a shop serving the opposite end of the income spectrum.
Low-price supermarket Asda – owned by USA’s Walmart – reports that organic veg [...]

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