Nutrition - Health

The body was designed to repair itself. What makes it go wrong?

Cancer is our own cells gone crazy, according the Medical profession. What makes them crazy?

Many ailments today are not cured at all. We often use modern day drugs to conceal the symptoms while the disease runs rampant through our bodies. Often the drugs create further side effects, which we counteract with more drugs. Of course the Pharmaceutical companies who make and sell these drugs have a large vested interest in promoting these drugs. How much influence to they really have?

Obesity is a worldwide problem linked to Type 2 Diabetes but most of the pharmaceuticals to treat diabetes prevent weight loss.

Are we getting all the information?
If a natural remedy was found and you could grow it in your back yard, how far would the drug companies go to supressing that information?
Would they resort to persuading FDA decision makers, lobbying politicians, paying highly qualified academics to lie?

It wouldn't happen today - no of course not. We have ethical commissions to prevent that, right?

What about the tobacco industry. We now know that negative reports were buried and medical practitioners were paid high salaries (one of whom did a report on Laetril) to publicly state that smoking was harmless. We know that politians were lobbied, campagns payed for and officials silenced, to block the scientific truths being publicised.

The pharmaceutical trade is worth far more in dollars and cents that the tobacco trade ever was.

Today we need to ask ourselves, has it really changed?
Have our corporations become more ethical that they were in the 1950's and 60's?

Are there any alternatives to drugs and if so how effective are they?
How do they work?
What are the side effects?

If you want to know more about nutrition in terms of the various food stuffs, within the body, go to our Food pages.

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Storing Glucose - compulsory reading for anyone trying to lose weight or suffering from type 2 Diabetes.

Precious Salt - goitre, iodine defficiency and heart ailments are all part of our devotion salting everything in our diet.

Is it safe for human consumption? - How do they decide if food is safe to eat? Who decides if new chemicals like preservatives, colouring and other additives are really safe?

Artificial Sweeteners - This started out as a single page but there is so much to tell that we split it into three pages :Aspartame, Saccharin and Sucralose - there's a lot of misinformation and deceptive advertising regarding sugar and its substitutes Did you know there is a natural substitute for laboratory made sweeteners that has been in use for hundreds of years, with no harmful side effects?

GM Food or Gene Modified Foods - Are they really the science miracle we need to feed the future or have the geneticists opened Pandora's box?

Weight Control and diet - what works and why. The snake oil salesmen exposed. How to lose it and keep it off.

Asian Cuisine - reduced fat, fresher, low carbohydrate, high fibre and tastes fabulous - the ideal tool for weight control.

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