Vitamin & Anti-Oxidant Supplements – Death, Cancer & Heart Disease

Several observational studies have shown eating more fruit and vegetables helps to reduce several chronic illnesses including heart disease and cancer. As such it has been thought this may be due to the multi-vitamins and oxidants present within those fruit and vegetables that may cause this effect. Further observational studies have looked at supplements with promising links however this may well be due to other factors such as those who take supplements may make other health and lifestyle choices. Hence randomized…

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8 March 2016

Quacks & Quackery

What is a Quack & How do we spot them?

A quack is a fraud or pretender of medical skill. They are essentially con-artists or charlatans who are often eloquent in speech, running public relations campaigns and attempt to convince people to accept them as experts within the medical field that they enter. This is usually done with the intent to convince sales of items of some sort, often supplements. The process for a quack to convince people of their fraud as being a real cure is called quackery and is manifested…

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23 February 2016

Islam / Quacks & Quackery

Fluoride Toxicity, Cancer & Zamzam Water

Many people worry about developing cancer and unfortunately there are many scavengers who will prey on these concerns such that they claim almost everything around us causes cancer of some other toxicity. Some of them go to great extents as if they want society to live in caves in the wilderness! Claims of cancer causing properties without convincing evidence is scare-mongering or alarmist. Usually the goal is to try to convince consumers to buy into some sort of alternative or to purchase…

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18 February 2016

Nutrition

Dietary Sugar & Juicing; Heart Disease – P2

Carbohydrates can be classed as starch or sugar. Starch is found in most staple foods such as rice, pasta, bread. It is a more complex molecule than sugars and is broken down slowly by digestion and absorbed as glucose but at a relatively slower duration to sugar. This means that the blood glucose increases more slowly, what is termed as relatively "low glycaemic index", which is good. Starch is best taken as whole grains and not the processed white-type which digests…

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9 February 2016

Alternative Medicine

Understanding Medical Evidence – Origin of most Contention

The relative importance (hierachy) of different types of medical evidence is important to understand medical contention thereby placing each view in its correct place. True Wisdom. Medical experts may differ in best the medical view but their differing in principle is valid as they have the tools to do so. It is the pretend-experts who display quackery hijacking the efforts of pioneering studies and taking them to an unjust level because they don't possess the tools nor expertise put medical evidence in…

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8 February 2016

Nutrition

Olive Oil, Dietary Fats & Cholesterol; Heart Disease

Coronary heart disease (CHD) is the leading cause of death both in the UK and worldwide being responsible for more than 73,000 deaths in the UK each year. About 1 in 6 men and 1 in 10 women die from CHD. It can manifest its self as angina pains or as heart attacks occurring when the heart's own blood supply (called coronary arteries) is inadequate being clogged up by disease process called atherosclerosis. It is known the clogs (called atheroma plaques) are made up of fat and…

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6 February 2016