What are we going to do about the diabetes ‘timebomb’?
It’s been hard to miss the dire warning we’ve had about the burgeoning rates of diabetes we’re seeing in the World. Another came this week came out of Cape Town in South Africa during the World Diabetes Congress. It was announced at a news conference that by the year 2025, 380 million people will be [...]
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How drug companies can cause us to forget what ‘medicine’ is really for
What are doctors and medicine for? To help people achieve better health, and maybe even save some lives, right? Well, over the last decade or so I’ve noticed that certain factions within the medical establishment seem to have, largely, forgotten this. We doctors, it occurs to me, are being asked to put more and more [...]
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Bulimia shown to be more common in cities, and two highly effective remedies for this condition for those not planning on moving to the country
Last week saw the publication of a study in the British Journal of Psychiatry which has found that the eating disorder bulimia nervosa is 5 times more common in cities than in more rural areas [1]. The authors of this study suggested that this difference may be due to the relative anonymity of a big [...]
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Why I won’t be giving up my morning coffee any time soon
Last week I was on the island of Malta in middle of the Mediterranean teaching a health-focused course to delegates from several European countries. At one point, I found myself having a conversation over breakfast with our course administrator – an Italian – on the topic of how to make a great espresso coffee. I [...]
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