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As we publish Positive Health PH Online Issue 255, having just commemorated the 75th Anniversary of the D-Day Normandy Landings, UK Prime Minister Theresa May has resigned as Conser...more
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As we approach publication of Positive Health PH Online Issue 256, Boris Johnson has been elected as the new leader of the Conservative Party and the new Prime Minister of the UK. I...more
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As we approach live publication of Positive Health PH Online Issue 257, I have become beset with, subjected to, even plagued by an extreme sense of malaise, stasis, emotional paraly...more
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Positive Health PH Online Issue 258 is published on 24 October 2019 and presents a very satisfying, well-rounded (in my view) array of editorial features ranging from mystical, psy...more
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It is with great pleasure, indeed some amazement that we publish Positive Health PH Online January Issue 259 – published on the very same day as the UK Election.more
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As we publish February Issue 260 of Positive Health PH Online I have been overwhelmed by the vast torrents of emotional, psychological, political enmity / conflict permeating throug...more
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Positive Health PH Online Issue 261 publishes a diverse array of Editorial features spanning the vast health global disciplines ranging from Mind-Body & Spiritual, Mental Healt...more
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As we publish Positive Health PH Online Issue 262 end of April 2020, the entire world, at various stages of journeying through the Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic, has been viewing w...more
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Positive Health PH Online Issue 263 publishes a stellar array, in my view, of high quality, editorial features spanning the entire spectrum of health issues – spiritual / psychospir...more
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We publish Positive Health PH Online Issue 264, now in its 27th year, with a wide array of editorial features spanning the spectrum of Mind-Body-Spirit.more
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Positive Health PH Online Issue 265 publishes a wide-ranging spectrum of editorial features spanning a complete gamut of Mind-Body-Spirit topics.more
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As we publish Positive Health PH Online Issue 266 with stellar features spanning the huge array of health conditions – encompassing Mental-Emotional-Spiritual, Nutritional and Herba...more
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The editorial features in Issue 267 embody the core, almost sacred Positive Health PH Online values of integrated medicine and explore the true concepts of mind-body-spirit, embraci...more
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Positive Health PH Online Issue 268, published live 28 Jan 2021 embodies a holistic integration of treatment and clinical approaches to build individual optimum immunity and health....more
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As someone who has always strived for consensus rather than adversarial conflict, it has been my paramount goal regarding healthcare to bring together allopathic treatment with com...more
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Can you remember those times in your life when you have suffered a severe disappointment – when the penny finally dropped that someone close to you, or whom you trusted, had betray...more
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Positive Health PH Online was launched in 1994 following a series of attempts to suppress natural treatments for cancer, as recounted in Issue 235:more
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Positive Health PH Online Issue 271 is scheduled to be published live on 10 June 2021, merely 11 days before Stage 4 of the Road Map Recovery Plan – opening up and easing restricti...more
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Positive Health PH Online Issue 272 is published live 29 July 2021, ten days following Stage 4 of the UK Road Map – 19 July when mandatory COVID restrictions were lifted. As everyon...more
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Positive Health PH Online Issue 273 is published live 9 September 2021. Amid international events including withdrawal of American and UK forces from Afghanistan, ferocious wild fir...more
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Positive Health PH Online Issue 274 published live on 21 Oct, sees the world at a pivotal moment, not only in the present tense, but also in long-term prospects of how Planet Earth ...more
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Positive Health PH Online January 2022 Issue 275 is published live on 9 Dec 2021 at a critical yet enigmatic juncture in the coronavirus pandemic – just weeks after the Omicron vari...more
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Positive Health PH Online Issue 276, is published live 27 Jan 2022 at yet another pivotal and unfathomable point, both with regard to the coronavirus pandemic – perhaps becoming end...more
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Positive Health PH Online Issue 277 is published live Thursday 10 March 2022, two weeks into what can only be described as the most brutal, utterly destructive, unprovoked, almost i...more
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The cover story Obesity – A Survey of Factors and Practical Responses, written by Edwin Alan Salter MA MSc PhD is recommended in my view as a highly mature and wide-ranging treatise...more
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Positive Health PH Online June Issue 279 is published live 9 June 2022. The destructive, apocalyptic war in Ukraine drags on, Covid-19 appears to be receding while Monkey Pox has ap...more
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There is a clichéd and outmoded notion that as we grow older we get more rigid in our beliefs and ways of viewing the world. As a teenager I enthusiastically embraced the slogan th...more
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Positive Health PH Online August Issue 280 is published live 28 July, in the midst of a Tory Leadership Contest to select a new UK Prime Minister to replace Boris Johnson. The war ...more
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Positive Health PH Online September Issue 281 is published live 8 Sept. Climate change catastrophes – floods of biblical apocalyptic proportions have afflicted Pakistan, while drou...more
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Positive Health PH Online November Issue 282 is published live on 20 October. Memorable events have occurred since the publication of Issue 281. These include the death of the Sover...more
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Positive Health PH Online January Issue 283 is published live 8 December. Unfortunately the war in Ukraine rages on, Iranian women continue to protest against strict rules dictatin...more
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Positive Health PH Online February Issue 284 is published live 26 January 2023. Many countries continue their descent into authoritarian rule; feeling powerless, we witness the brut...more
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Positive Health PH Online March Issue 285 is published live 9 March 2023. A myriad of political and topical issues are swirling around, including the Inquiry on the Manchester Arena...more
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Positive Health PH Online May Issue 286 is published 27 April 2023. The increasing spiral of tension and conflict across the world, perhaps greater than in any time since the 1950s ...more
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Positive Health PH Online June Issue 287 is published 8 June 2023. The worldview appears bleak, with serious conflicts raging in Europe – Russia’s war in Ukraine, Africa – warring S...more
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Positive Health PH Online August Issue 288 is published 27 July 2023. The big picture is not a happy one with the continuation of the war in Ukraine, escalating with Russia’s termin...more
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Positive Health PH Online September Issue 289 is published 7 September 2023. The international picture remains gloomy with the continuing war in Ukraine, as well as the death of the...more
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Shakespeare may have said that music has charms to soothe the savage breast, but this savage breast is not soothed by the enormous amount of misinformation about, especially regard...more
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Positive Health PH Online November Issue 290 is published live 19 October. The unanticipated shock invasion and murder of >1300 Israelis – including babies, men and women of al...more
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Positive Health PH Online January 2024 Issue 291 is published live 7 December. The shock invasion and murder of 1200 Israelis on 7 October by Hamas and deaths of perhaps 15000 Pale...more
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Positive Health PH Online February 2024 Issue 292 is published live 25 January. I would genuinely prefer to welcome in the New Year 2024 with a joyful note; however, to be honest, I...more
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Positive Health PH Online March 2024 Issue 293 is published live 7 March. I have been inspired and transfixed viewing Channel 4’s Lost Temples of Cambodia. Archaeologist Pauline Car...more
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Positive Health PH Online May 2024 Issue 294 is published 25 April. The world outlook remains bleak, particularly following the recent explosive attack by Iran on Israel with hundre...more
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Positive Health PH Online June 2024 Issue 295 is published 6 June. The world outlook is definitely not positive – an understatement – with major continuing conflicts afflicting key ...more
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Positive Health PH Online August 2024 Issue 296 is published 25 July 2024. It is fiendishly difficult to predict the future when it comes to world events.more
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The successful emergence of Kamala Harris – as the first black and Asian-American woman to lead a major party's presidential ticket – as the Democratic Presidential Nominee in the U...more
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Positive Health PH Online November 2024 Issue 298 is published 17 October 2024. The world situation appears desperately bleak; how can we continue to live being hopeless?more
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It has become an accepted fact that the causes of many cancers and other diseases are determined to a significant extent by environmental and dietary factors, including smoking, dr...more
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Complementary Medicine hasn't even achieved relegation status, because it hasn't yet officially joined the healthcare system league. While healthcare priorities entail high-tech, h...more
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If you were at high risk of getting breast cancer what would you do? Suppose that you were in your early 30s, and a DNA test showed that you had inherited a gene with an 80% probab...more
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Cancer survival statistics make for sober reading, especially these days when the media are always ready to announce "breakthroughs" or "miracle cures". Most intelligent people who...more
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Happiness and Depression have become two of the most common, everyday words we bandy about. Yet, whereas talking, writing and giving seminars about how to achieve happiness can be ...more
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The concept "you are responsible for creating your reality" has been around in various guises for ages. My father would say "the way you make your bed you will lie in it", and anot...more
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What attributes make for a good practitioner, and, perhaps, more importantly, which sort of practitioner is right for you and your particular health problem? These fundamental ques...more
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During my lifetime, and particularly during the past 15 years, I have been at the receiving end of frankly outrageous diagnoses from a variety of practitioners, some of them fairly...more
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When I was growing up, there were constant remarks from my parents and other "grown-ups" that as you got older you also became wiser and more experienced. I never had much truck fo...more
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Nothing infuriates me more than hearing some "expert" pontificating about the lack of research or lack of proof regarding the therapeutic efficacy of complementary medicine.more
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Penny Brohn, internationally renowned campaigner for holistic cancer treatment and co-founder of the Bristol Cancer Help Centre, died late last year following a 15-year battle with...more
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Sadly, more often than not, it is only when we ourselves, or someone close to us, become seriously ill that we realise our own fragility and lack of certain knowledge regarding nat...more
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Where do you go to sort out your health problems? With such an incredible array of hugely diverse therapeutic approaches – from Healing, Reiki, Homoeopathy, Herbs, Nutrition, to Bo...more
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Very recently, a lovely woman known to all of us at Positive Health arrived in tears, with the devastating news that her 46-year old daughter had just been diagnosed with breast ca...more
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There are few subjects more emotive, and dare I say political, than food and diet. Just reflect upon the billions spent in advertising all manner of food and beverages, mainly of t...more
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Don't we tend to pride ourselves with being well-informed and knowledgeable? With all the high-tech gizmos, internet and network communications available, don't we congratulate our...more
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It has been exciting to be able to review two outstanding books in this issue (please see pages 5-8), both documenting how nutrition can radically improve our health and even allev...more
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The Government has appointed a Cancer Supremo to try to prevent 100,000 cancer deaths over the next 10 years. On the news bulletins have been reports of more money, more Consultant...more
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I sometimes fantasise (as I know many of us do) about what it would be like to live in another era, say before electricity, the car, radio, television, or the telephone. In fact, t...more
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While there is no shortage of acceptable practitioners around, when I have a health problem to sort out, I have always found it difficult to locate that really superb therapist who...more
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Given the ongoing somewhat ferocious scrutiny regarding the safety of the many diverse therapies within Complementary Medicine – Aromatherapy, Nutrition, Herbal Medicine – to name ...more
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I get really furious when so-called experts pronounce utter nonsense in an authoritative way to their captive audience on radio or television. So, imagine my reaction while listeni...more
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You may have seen the recent headlines claiming that vitamin C causes clogged arteries and may therefore be a risk to heart disease. You may wonder what I, as an author of a book o...more
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As a child growing up in relatively affluent Canada during the 1950s and 60s, some of my most powerful formative influences were the frequent famines and horrors of conflict – the ...more
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The huge gulf which exists between natural-oriented therapies and people who follow more mainstream life practices never ceases to amaze me.more
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I am continuously shocked by the colossal ignorance of health professionals regarding published research across the many disciplines of Complementary Medicine.more
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In a recent BBC2 documentary exploring the UK's poor cancer survival rate, members of a UK Parliamentary scientific select committee were seen visiting the USA's National Cancer In...more
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Regarding scientific research and other important health information, the most difficult attributes to ferret out, but which are fundamental, underlying the information's reliabili...more
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It has been utterly frustrating for me to witness the constantly denigrating and sometimes tragic consequences of polarization from within and without complementary medicine.more
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I place a great deal of importance upon the integrity and reliability of the source of critical information, particularly when it may impact upon my health and wellbeing.more
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Over ten years ago, while I was researching the literature for Vitamin C – The Master Nutrient, I came across the despairing cries of doctors who, having discovered even as far bac...more
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Recently I have been reminiscing, with deep misgivings, about how a significant body of conventional medical research is being subverted away from the good of the public and patien...more
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The origins of numerous effective therapies and treatments often arise from the desperate search for relief of sufferers of devastating illnesses. In this age of evidence-based med...more
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In the last issue I discussed how pivotal individual suffering and motivation can be in the development of important health treatments, particularly for chronic or intractable cond...more
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In Issues 62 and 63, I have discussed the considerable impact that individuals, clinicians and researchers can exert upon therapeutic healthcare progress and hence upon all our liv...more
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We in the UK have been forced to witness with numbing incredulity the slaughter of millions of healthy livestock and other animals, due to apparent scientific incompetence and bure...more
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To badly paraphrase former US President Bill Clinton, 'It's the Evidence, Stupid!' Or, should I say, all the massive evidence regarding nutrition and cancer, which is in the public...more
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How to find a qualified, competent complementary practitioner ought to be a straight forward enough process; however, as you can deduce from Sarah Noble's article of that title (se...more
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As individuals, how we choose to support causes, complementary medicine in particular, may literally save our lives.As eloquently discussed by Dorothy Rowe Ph.D., we typically take...more
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The rampant commercial attitude of many organizations, even within charities, healthcare and spiritual pursuits, has been a continuing revelation and source of distaste for me. We ...more
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Many features herein concern healing - transformation, healing with music and meditation and healing from cancer.more
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Robert Charman (see Letters) has got it absolutely right. Looking at the recent BBC1 series Living with Cancer, Monday evenings at 10.35pm, one might get the impression that all th...more
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I have been thinking of late that everyone around me and my colleagues seems to be either getting cancer or dying of cancer. In fact, this deeply distressing state of affairs is no...more
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In my review of Petrene Soames' book The Essence of Self-Healing, I quipped that she has more courage than I to predict that serious illnesses such as cancer, stroke and Alzheimer'...more
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The current healthcare system is light years from being integrated, vis à vis Orthodox and Complementary disciplines. This can be exemplified by reading comments from some of the l...more
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"Sold down the river", "ruled by Brussels", "in breach of the Maastricht Treaty", "the EU wants to deny us the right to look after our own health", "a Humanitarian rights issue", "...more
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As individuals, it is difficult, yet vital, to remind ourselves of the absolute importance of doing our utmost to protect and nurture our own health. Especially so today, amidst th...more
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When I recently received The British Association of Flower Essences Producers' newsletter advising that Flower Essences may come under the aegis of the Traditional Herbal Medicines...more
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That the Mind has a profound effect upon our health, via brain-immune modulation is not a new revelation. In fact, as per the recent review of the literature of psycho-neuro-immuno...more
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Spending as much time as I do reading research, journals and books from all areas of health, the amount of vigorous, even vicious disagreement among top experts in every field neve...more
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When I originally started Positive Health some nine years ago, my motivation was to provide authoritative clinical and research information about complementary medicine to people w...more
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Published Research is inspirational for me. In this issue, MacPherson et al reported that of a total of 34,407 acupuncture treatments, there were no serious adverse events reporte...more
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"Have you seen the Breast Cancer Treatment section in this Sunday's The Observer?", my partner asked. As he handed me the 32-page supplement on 29 September, I was hoping to see a ...more
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The old saying 'plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose' is a time-honoured truism with both positive and negative attributes.more
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It is a terrible situation when the penny drops and you realize that you can't trust anyone to tell you the 'truth' about life and death health matters. This is certainly the concl...more
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Like many others, I used some of the so-called holiday period as an opportunity to catch up with big projects that I had been putting off due to the manic load of everyday work tas...more
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I get extremely irritated, in fact infuriated, at the constant derisory carping and criticism about complementary therapies appearing in the print, electronic and broadcast media.<...more
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Call me simpleminded, but my idea of optimum healthcare has always been that, depending on the severity and nature of the medical problem, the most appropriate treatment(s) should ...more
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There are few people I speak with who don't consider being afflicted and disabled by a stroke to be one of their worst nightmares. In that momentary cerebral accident, lives change...more
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Those of us who wish to protect our health and that of our families and patients are definitely on a collision course with the 'Big Brother' authorities – multinational pharmaceuti...more
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In over nine years of publishing Positive Health, I had never before been telephoned directly by the Medicines and Health Regulatory Agency (MHRA), previously called the Medicines ...more
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David Walker's story (see pages 35-38) is both an inspiring and hideous example of the ongoing criminal suppression, by (mainly US) governments, law enforcement agencies such as th...more
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I used to think that nutritional approaches for cancer treatment were the only fields marginalized vis à vis conventional medical orthodoxy. However, it is far, far worse; all 'com...more
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My blood is boiling, again. While in the shower this morning, I had been mentally formulating what I wished to say in the Editorial of this Issue.more
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Thinking 'outside of the box' is probably one of the most crucial qualities required by health practitioners. Alas, the world of medicine, and, indeed, the greater world of politic...more
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I am somewhat amazed, and exceedingly proud to announce that Positive Health is now 10 years old and about to enter its second decade of publication.more
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Regular readers of Positive Health know that I constantly harangue the medical establishment, government regulatory bodies and the media regarding the widespread scandalous ignoran...more
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I have a serious issue around trusting health experts. Your life and heath, and mine, may depend upon not trusting the received wisdom of conventional experts. There are a number o...more
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I have never been comfortable with the dichotomies and schisms semantically describing various approaches to healthcare. Why do we have to continually divide and categorize types o...more
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As professional health practitioners and serious users of complementary medicine, I imagine that the majority of Positive Health readers may not respond well to massively overblown...more
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Education & Training in Complementary Therapies in the UK
At this time of year, people are reflecting on life and may be considering a new career. Many people decide to train in complementary therapies because they have a passion for helpi...more
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EEA / Kirlian photography and Colourpuncture
Kirlian photography shows the electromagnetic field surrounding the body. This is usually achieved by placing the finger and toe tips on a photographic unit and the energy emission...more
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Effective Antimicrobial Essential Oils for Protection against Dangerous Infection
MRSA is an acronym for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, and refers to strains of this bacterium that are resistant to the antibiotic methicillin, and to other classes of...more
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Effective Lymphatic Function Part I
All body tissues are nourished by tissue fluid. Most of this fluid returns to the blood via the lymphatic system. The lymph starts in tiny lymph capillaries and passes through larg...more
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Effective Lymphatic Function Part Two
Energy is usually thought of in terms of muscular or physical energy resulting from adequate sleep and food; these are contributing factors in energetic manifestation and not the or...more
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Effects of Long Winter upon Eczema and Psoriasis
Winter appears to be dragging on this year and even though it is technically spring we all know it isn’t! To have the worst winter and spring for more than 18 years has taken its to...more
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In this highly referenced article, Dr Rosy Daniel, formerly Medical Director of Bristol Cancer Help Centre and currently Director of Health Creation, reviews research demonstrating ...more
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This column focuses on Emotional Freedom Technique to treat a woman diagnosed with Multiple Connective Tissue Disease, and on medication for pain in her muscles and joints for both...more
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Hair problems! Like common cold, hair disorders are frequent visitors in everyone’s life. There is increasing dissatisfaction towards one’s hair appearance and the invariable consta...more
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Eileen O'Connor - International Speaker and Campaigner for Protection against Radiation
A cause she took up in 2001 after discovering she - and a number of individuals in her community - had cancer and one she continues to this day.more
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El Paradiso is a secluded 200-year old farm (finca) which has been converted into a retreat for a few rat-race escapees, near Malaga in the Spanish province of Andalucia. The autho...more
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Electrical Sensitivity: Mobile Phones, Microwaves, 'Electro-smog' and what to Avoid
Until fairly recently we limited ourselves to mains electricity and its generating and distributional network, the National Grid. Now we have a multiplicity of wireless microwave e...more
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'Our main work is energy restructuring. We are like a general energy-medicine practice and we can help anything that affects the mind-body inter-relationship.' This was how Harry O...more
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Electromagnetic Stress in the Home
Scientists and members of the public are becoming increasingly concerned about the effects on mental, emotional and physical health of electro-magnetic fields emanating from power ...more
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Everyone who is involved in any of the many branches of Complementary Medicine whether as a practitioner or as a patient, is likely to be involved with some aspect of electromagnet...more
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Electronic Sputnik Capsule Against Parasites
We have been working with a quite extraordinary device for the past year – an electronic capsule which once ingested into the system can expel parasites and gallstones.more
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Eliminating and IgG Food Allergy Testing
Dr Baker is a practising physician in Weston, Connecticut, with a special interest in the environmental and biochemical aspects of chronic health problems, both in children and in ...more
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Ellagic Acid: A Potent Anticarcinogen
Llori Valenzuela and Dr Mark Brudnak investigate the link between diet and cancer, in particular the health benefits associated with the consumption of plant-based foods. This is a...more
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We’ve been taught to look at pain and illness as an enemy that needs to be defeated at all costs. And that is often what we get – a costly, and sometimes lengthy task of temporarily...more
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Embracing the Yin, containing the feminine
My Taiji Master used to say “Women are naturally better than men at Taiji”. I used to think that he was merely flattering us women, as in fact he did not have many senior female ...more
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The philosopher, Plato, thought that we are all in the same yacht apropos of our vision. This, notwithstanding the fact that all of us aim to be better than others while imbibing an...more
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The author, a medical physician, vice president of the Complementary Medical Association, and developer of the Optimum Health Coaching System, looks at the detrimental effects of e...more
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EMFs – A Hidden Stress Causing Untold Harm to your Health
We love the convenience of our gadgets and why not, they seem to make our lives easier but are they detrimental for our health? We have an increasing reliance on the convenience and...more
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Emotion in the Body - The Vagus Nerve
In my last article “Physical and Emotional Holding Patterns” I said that I would explore further how emotion manifests in the tissues of the body, particularly the viscera. As a bo...more
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I see that I am often angry. I see that I experience much pain in my intimate relationships. I see that I am still isolated, lonely, and living in anxiety if not downright fear. ...more
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The real benefits of detoxification - feeling purified, light, free and full of energy - are only truly achievable if the bodily experience of fasting, juicing or food elimination ...more
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Emotional First Aid Through NLP
The map is not the territory, so why not change it?more
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Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) and Its Health Benefits
Gary Craig, founder of EFT realized that by tapping on certain acupressure points around the body, anything and everything could be released regardless of the issues.more
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Concern is growing for the continuous increase in mental health disorders within the western world. Likewise, psychosomatic conditions such as irritable bowel syndrome, chronic fati...more
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Emotional Transformation and Cellular Healing
Psycho-neuro-Immunology research has produced compelling evidence that our thought patterns directly and instantaneously affect our whole body chemistry, and can suppress our immun...more
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Last week I was invited to talk at our local Women’s Guild on the topics of both Homeopathy and Reiki. As is the normal practice at the beginning of their meetings general informati...more
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This article looks at the power of the placebo effect, which a House of Lords Science and Technology report in 2000 states "is not just an imagined experience but can positively im...more
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Empowering Women: Natural Approaches To Pregnancy And Childbirth
Denise Tiran looks at the use of complementary therapies during pregnancy and labour. Many women and midwives are now demanding less interventionist maternity care, which will not ...more