In previous posts (such as here and here) I have written about how the impact of ‘excess’ weight on health seems to have been, well, overstated in both men and women. More evidence to this effect emerged this week on the publication of a study of nearly 7000 American men with an average age of [...]

Whilst I believe that conventional medicine is less effective and more hazardous than its image suggests, I don’t shun it completely. For instance, a few months ago I saw a patients who told me that in his late 40s had developed cataracts (cloudiness in the lenses of the eyes) which had been removed and replaced [...]