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What Happened to Comfort Always
There’s an old joke: What’s the difference between God and a doctor? God doesn’t think he’s a doctor. Times change, of course. These days, that idea might be more aptly appl...
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The World is Owed an Apology
It’s been five years ago that we had the beginnings of the COVID pandemic. In March 2020, we were seeing borders closed, assortments of lockdowns, and really right across the whole world. Now...
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Good Health is more than Diet and Exercise
There’s more to good health than just diet and exercise. Those two things are very, very important—and we’ve spoken about them quite often on this podcast. Being physically active has a huge number...
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Bang – The World is Changing
It’s almost become a cliché. Okay. What’s the difference between a conspiracy theory and a fact? About six months and closing. January has been a real start-the-year-with-a-bang month. ...
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The Obvious Remains Useful
This is from the “Yes, we actually knew the sky was blue before science told us” file, but I think it’s still worth discussing. Because, casually—in fact, maybe more often than oc...
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Are Our Diets Making us ill?
In this article, Dr Joe Kostrich and Ian Blackley discuss the impact of government dietary guidelines on public health, the rise in chronic diseases, and the importance of returning to natural, who...
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The Pushback on Censorship Gathers Pace
2025 has gotten off to a really good start. Now before we go further, I think it’s important to note that there are major issues in the world continuing, particularly with the fires in Los An...
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The Medical Industrial Complex
President Dwight D. Eisenhower coined the term “military-industrial complex” when he left office to describe his concerns about the influence of the military. The phrase highlights the ...
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Your Grandmother Was Right About Eating Food
There’s very little that’s truly new under the sun. These days, we often think we’re incredibly advanced in the 21st century, assuming that old ideas must be wrong or unproven by science. We believ...
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The Best Science Money Can Buy
USD 12 billion is a lot of money. According to a new analysis, US physicians have received more than $12 billion in payments from the pharmaceutical and medical device industries over 10 years. We’...
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How to be happy
Happiness can be learned, but it may take practising seven habits. This is a topic covered on MedPage Today, and it might make you do a double-take. Ultimately, you would think happiness is simply ...
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Type Two Diabetes Now A Reversible Condition
Health and being healthy are made more complicated than they need to be, and often it is always doom and gloom about health. Really, there is a lot of good news. Well, here’s some great news from w...
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Hands off Toasties
The relentless march of the nanny state into the minutiae of people’s lives continues unabated. A quote: WA will ban ham and cheese sandwiches from school to hand teens with the lunch meal cl...
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