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Tangerines – perhaps the next power fruit
A recent WDDTY e-news bulletin reported on research into the potential benefits of tangerines and the possibility that they will be marketed as a new power fruit. It reminded us that the first two...
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The perfect breakfast for healthy ageing
Earlier this month, What Doctors Don’t Tell You reported on the importance of selenium and vitamin K to healthy ageing. It prompted us to check on what we ate with useful amounts of these two...
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Fat profits
The cancer at the heart of medicine is its need to serve two masters: the patient and the pharmaceutical company’s shareholders. In an ideal capitalist system, this does not necessarily present a...
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Support independent journalism
st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) }The fact you read What Doctors Don’t Tell You (WDDTY) or its website suggests you support independent journalism – whether you realise it or not.Journalism is itself...
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The MMR believers
Pity the poor parents who want to do the right thing whenit comes to vaccinating their child. Even suggesting thatthey have concerns about side-effects can be likenedto questioning the existence of God...
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Chemical-free gardens and terraces
The August issue of What Doctors Don’t Tell You just arrived at our home in the wilds of Spain – and I wanted to add some further thoughts to the main story about chemicals in pesticides and the damage...
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Zen and dementia
This is the 22nd year that we’ve been producing a monthly issue of What Doctors Don’t Tell You, and people always seem to ask: Don’t you ever run out of things to write about? Thus far, we don’t seem...
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The expert-free therapy
We live in an age of complexity. We switch on the lights in our home, but don’t really understand how the electricity works. We turn on the taps in our bathroom, without completely grasping how water...
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Living Well from Our Mediterranean Garden
Early expatriate settlers in Spain could eat well from local produce. Now in many areas agricultural land has been built on or abandoned, and where foodstuffs are still grown there is evidence of...
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It's an ill wind
The West is going through financial turmoil. Its governments are bankrupt, and are being forced to cut back on public expenditure. For David Cameron’s UK government, the National Health Service (NHS)...
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Chanting for health
Using our voices has always been the key to healing and transformation in traditional cultures, and was a major contribution to a healthy community in our own – until we stopped. Having pioneered the...
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When miracles happen
Praying for another’s wellbeing is problematic, even at this time of year when our thoughts might turn to miracles and healings of the sick. It’s not a problem for the sender or receiver, but it most...
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In the pocket
Our main feature this month (http://www.wddty.com/kill-not-cure.html) highlights two disturbing statistics about Big Pharma: in 2011, it was recorded as the most fraudulent industry group in the world,...
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The science of profit
Imagine you’re a Venusian paying a visit to Earth, and I’m in the welcoming party. Over a bubbling Martian cola I tell you we have a major health problem on the planet – cancer. Our standard...
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First, do something
Breast cancer is one of the major ‘ladykillers’ – and so governments want to be seen to do something, not least because it affects half the electorate. For the past 24 years – and at a total cost of...
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The consent that is never sought
Aside from death and taxes, life’s only other certainty is that you have a body, over which you have complete sovereignty and which is protected by law, including human rights legislation. If somebody...
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The ethical drug company
The recent bank bail-out left a bitter taste. Apparently too big to fail, the banks enjoyed state support to keep them afloat, then cut off credit to small firms, a decision that threatens to plunge...
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Caught in the Act
We recently fell foul of the Cancer Act 1939. It’s the same pernicious act that forced the cancellation of an alternative cancer conference in Totnes, Devon the other month, which was to feature the...
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Because they can
The faint-hearted among us often question the suicidal bravery of mountaineers who risk their lives to climb the world’s highest peaks. When asked why they climb the mountain, the stock-in-trade...
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Old drugs, new diseases
One of the drug industry’s tactics for selling more remedies is to invent a disease. ‘Social phobia’ springs to mind as a classic from around 10 years ago.Now they have a new one, this time courtesy...
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