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19
MAR
2012

Invincible summer

It was a pleasure to work with James Freemantle a couple of years ago on his documentary “Invincible Summer”. He shares his personal story about depression, consulting a few “experts” along the way.  
02
MAR
2012

Cholesterol and the statin controversy

Statins, the drugs designed to lower cholesterol, are in the news again. The US regulatory body the FDA released a warning this week, cautioning users of an increased risk of developing dementia or diabetes. Australia’s counterpart, the TGA, is yet to make a ruling. Cholesterol...
16
NOV
2011

The inconvenient truth about MSG

Last week a staff writer for the Sydney Morning Herald proclaimed the “truth” about reactions to monosodium glutamate (MSG) to be a furphy. While it’s a fact that the World Health Organisation doesn’t consider the flavour enhancer a health hazard, many of the other conclusions...
07
NOV
2011

Are multivitamins killing you?

If you’ve been following the news lately you could believe vitamin and mineral supplements are either a waste of money or worse. According to reports of one study, they’ll even shorten your life. Popping vitamins may do more harm than good, according to a new study that adds to a...
04
OCT
2011

“Now with 50% less fat”: the truth behind nutritional claims

“What an extraordinary achievement for a civilization: to have developed the one diet that reliably makes its people sick.” Michael Pollan, Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual Nutritional labelling has hit the news recently. The Heart Foundation announced it is dropping t...
08
AUG
2011

Are our homes killing us?

To find out the answer to that question, I reviewed two books on environmental health. Healthy Home Healthy Family: Is Where You Live Affecting Your Health? Nicole Bijlsma (Joshua Books, 2010) Slow Death by Rubber Duck: How the Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Life Affects Our Health...
08
JUL
2011

On being ill

The hospital experience is full of the drama of the untidy body: of blood, sweat, vomit, bile, all the other stuff normally contained and hidden. But in hospital, the normally compliant body does not, will not and cannot maintain its normal boundaries or habits, so any chart or...
04
JUL
2011

Can you eat earwax?

Waxing lyrical on earwax, candles and other aural obsessions Is it just me or are all humans just a bit obsessed with earwax?   What is earwax? Cerumen (the medical name for earwax) is made from secretions of the sebaceous and ceruminous glands in the ear. It’s acts as a...
16
MAY
2011

Behind the headline: can Vitamin D prevent depression?

The problems with medical research The headline article on Medscape this week was High-Dose Vitamin D Does Not Prevent Depression. As a practitioner who has observed the opposite in clinical practice I was keen to read the nuts and bolts of the research to see if the study...
11
APR
2011

Overcoming compassion fatigue: simple ways to deal with disasters

The cataclysmic events of recent months have made me consider how we find the balance between compassion and helplessness at times of disaster. With the immediacy of social networking and the media it’s very easy to get dragged into the emotional rollercoaster of disaster...
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