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Where weight loss is concerned, could it be that it’s more than calories that count?

Friday, February 29th, 2008

I was in a meeting today, and the subject of weight loss came up. As some of you may know, I have previously written about how exercise tends not to be particularly effective for those wishing to shed pounds.
I made the point that those wanting to lose weight would do better to, among other [...]

Antidepressants generally no better than placebo, but that doesn’t mean they’re easy to stop

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

I don’t know what health news stories were circulating in other parts of the globe, but here in the UK we have not been able to move for the ‘revelation’ that, for the majority of people who take them, popular antidepressants work no better than placebo.
This story was spawned from the results of a [...]