Rates of infertility across the Western world are rising, and rising significantly. In Canada, they rose from 8.5% in 1992 to 15% in 2009-10; one in six couples now have difficulty in conceiving while sperm counts have halved – yes, halved - in the last 50 years. In Britain, …
Behavioural conditions / autism
Jamie’s sugar tax – no way……..
Did anyone see Jamie's Sugar Rush on Channel 4 a few weeks ago? Jamie Oliver's new campaign to tackle childhood obesity by reducing sugar intake through a sugar tax on soft drinks. It was an excellent programme and showed, among many other things, how successful a sugar tax on …
Glyphosate (so therefore GM crops?) a possible carcinogen
You may remember that I blogged – or indeed you may have read it elsewhere – about the link tracked by an MIT researcher, Stephanie Seneff, between the use of the glyphosate (as in the pesticide, RoundUp) and the rise in autism and coeliac over the last 25 years. Her claims about …
Telling the medical wheat from the chaff
Ten days ago I had an exchange with Dr Janice Joneja which illustrated yet again the problems faced by conventional practitioners when dealing with little understood conditions such as autism. Dr Joneja had had an email from a dietitian who had recommended her article on …
With apologies to The Week readers….
Apologies to those of you who have already read these reports in last weeks' Week but their Health & Science pages not only informed but induced such a pleasant chortle that I wanted 'to share'..... In brief: Eggs make us nicer! Dutch researchers have concluded that the …